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Marvel Studios announces Thor: Love and Thunder for November 2021. Starring Chris Hemsworth, Tessa Thompson, and Natalie Portman (as Thor herself)
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I don't actually remember if Thor takes Stormbreaker with him at end of Endgame. What if Thor 4 is a twist on the comics - Jane is dying from cancer; she goes to New Asgard to talk to Thor because she regrets how they broke up and doesn't want to die with regrets; he isn't there but Stormbreaker is and Valkyrie gives it to her to save her life?
Then Jane and Valkyrie goe off into space after Thor, Jane sees the state he's in and helps him get back on track while Thor tries (very badly) to play cupid for Valkyrie.
Ok now that we've discussed Portman, let's focus on Jane herself. It's going to be interesting seeing them interact again, as we'd gotten so used to his half-hearted excuse that he dumped her. Did they really drift apart because of distance and busy lives, or will there be a new reason thrown into the mix? Will they get back together by the end or remain friends? Lots of different ways they could play this out.
I can't remember if they did the cancer stuff in the old Thor movies, but I don't think so, right? Wonder if there's still going to be some kind of on-the-brink-of-death situation with her.
Not too excited about the return of Jane. She was s pretty uninteresting character and dropping her to focus Ragnarok on....well everything else was one of the great things about it. This should have done everything in its power to pretend those first two Thor films didn't exist imo.
She's too old, too short and not buff enough but she can acted so will see I guess
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Let the characters in Thor 4 do literally anything and put Annihilations Soundtrack in the background and I'm gonna buy 3 Tickets right this moment.
Please let Si f be in this, and not a small cameo. Maybe give her a tv show (with the Warriors Three?) on Disney+?
This is true. I will forever be scarred by the bear scene.
As for the news itself, YES. With Taika and Hemsworth making it no secret that they both wanted a Thor 4, this is great. Portman however... that is a surprise. Especially because Mjolnir is still broken. I guess Eitri recreated the hammer? Or timeline shenanningans?
Man, Mjolnir takes a liking to many people these days.
Except she is a fantastic actress and you're lying to yourself if you think Taika Waititi would "act circles" around Natalie Portman.
Your schtick is getting tiring.
She isn't to old, she is only 38, she doesn't need to big or buff. She could play Jane Foster while they do Thor with a body double, similar to how they made Steve Rodgers pre-Serum but in reverse.
ageism for the loose.
well its the one that got me excited the most.
now if we could get a hulk movie with liv tyler..
Honestly considering overweight Thor worked just fine in Endgame. What would be the problem with a lean female Thor in the one?
Taika will play the physical embodiment of cancer and make dumb jokes.
I find him so one note
It's not as if Taika was forced to come back to Thor and then forced to make this specific movie. Marvel (and Hemsworth) liked what he did with Ragnorak and wanted him back for another. Taika is also writing this movie. This is clearly a movie he wants to make. So he wanted Portman as Thor, that's enough to keep me excited.
That's some hottake right there. Lol
I'm any case I like Branagh, but he was kinda out of his league with Thor and it showed.
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Don't know why I'm surprised that PlanetSmasher is here trying to shit on Portman. I shouldn't be surprised. Yet here I am, being surprised. Uncanny negativity. Never saw him happy about anything. And he always has to make sure that it's not his opinion (which would be totally fine !), but that it's the absolute truth.
Ehh... It's an OK film. Not shitting on it, but I don't feel is a great one.
Just because something is on Netflix doesn't mean people will watch it, plus the whole reason it was sold off to Netflix was that the studio was afraid it was too weird for the mainstream.
Thor 1 had no chance of being good and Kenneth Brannagh found several angles to make him genuinely funny and charming and those are throughlines that have made thor a fan favorite. Taika recaptured the absurdity of the idea with a giant safety net that is Brannagh's film. It's not perfect but it's really well done and it's easy to forget how tremulously this whole effort began.
Yeah Portman is a great actress she's just been in some movies with bad scripts, Thor and Annihilation come to mind.
I finished reading the Jane as Thor run only last week. There are some really good stories in there, it will be interesting to see what they choose to adapt.
Many of the supporting characters in the stories dont really exist in the mcu and/or are dead. Odin, Loki, Malekith are gone. Roxxon has only been mentioned in passing in Iron Man 3 as far as I can remember.
I hope that its not just a 1 film thing, it would be better served over multiple films, perhaps her own trilogy.
Then in the future you can have Hemsworth come back for an Old King Thor story.
Many of the supporting characters in the stories dont really exist in the mcu and/or are dead. Odin, Loki, Malekith are gone. Roxxon has only been mentioned in passing in Iron Man 3 as far as I can remember.
I hope that its not just a 1 film thing, it would be better served over multiple films, perhaps her own trilogy.
Then in the future you can have Hemsworth come back for an Old King Thor story.
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Overweight Thor was one way to show off how broken the character felt after Infinity War. Similar in the comics they used a big contrast between Jane Foster and her appearence as Thor to support the story. Just look at the cover of The Mighty Thor #1. If they decide to drop all of the interesting themes of Jane Thor than they could obviosly do a more lean thor.
It really says something to MCU's quality that Dark World is the worst they can accomplish. Fox, WB and Sony would kill for that quality control.
Just saying that the "lol nobody saw it" joke is maybe not on the money when millions of people could stream it in their NF sub in the EU without the need to go to the theatre like in the US. Annihilation was prominent in the "popular" netflix tab and many media outlets did reviews at release. Like always with higher profile flicks like blind spot, bright etc. these garner usually a lot of attention.
Yeah, it was a fun movie. Don't get why so many people meme it to be so awe full.
And while I really liked Thor 3 I wasn't the biggest fan of Thor randomly turning into a comedian.
More Tessa Thompson is great though, Valkyrie is a great character.
She's only in her 30s, and women can go gym if you didn't know. I never noticed she was "too short" but they can use directing to make her look more intimidating... or maybe none of this matters and it's after all a comical film. Portman will be worthy of holding the hammer.
I was thinking the thundercats might be in it:
