Posted on 07/22/2019 9:09:15 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Marvel Studios has announced that actress Natalie Portman will take up the hammer and replace Chris Hemsworth as Thor God of Thunder.
Portman, who played Thor’s love interest Jane Foster in the first Thor film, has kept herself at arm’s length from the Marvel Cinematic Universe since her debut in 2011. Disney owns Marvel Studios. She has been so skittish about returning to the MCU that filmmakers had to use old footage and special effects to add her to the flashback scenes in its Summer blockbuster Avengers: Endgame.
But at San Diego’s famed Comic Con this weekend, Marvel Studios announced that Portman will return to the MCU for the next Thor movie and she will be replacing Chris Hemsworth as the God of Thunder.
As the Associated Press noted, “Portman, who played Jane in the first two Thor films, will be remerging as the female Thor. She ran out on stage to thunderous applause and accepted the hammer from a kneeling Taika Waitit.” According to the casting list, Hemsworth will appear and star in Thor 4.
That was far from the only news announced during the Marvel panel at Comic Con. Also announced is that MCU’s first officially gay superhero will be affirmed. The character, Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson), has already been seen on the screen but will be confirmed as gay in an upcoming film.
In other gender-swapping movie news, EON Productions announced this month that the next 007 Spy will be portrayed by a black female.
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Its not creative or movie genius to change male characters to female ones. Its blase.
Stan Lee must be turning over his grave...
I’ts so believable to watch little skinny women beat up big burly men. So lifelike. So realistic. The cutting edge of film making.
“Its not creative or movie genius to change male characters to female ones. Its blase.”
Not only that, Natalie Portman is the most blasé choice of actress to carry out their blasé campaign of “female empowerment.”
Speed scanning thread titles I thought is was Whore not Thor.
Female Thor was already done in the comic books ages ago from what I’ve heard... so I have been expecting them to roll-out “girl-Thor” for a quite some time now. What I did not expect was that girl-Thor, would be played by Natalie Portman... she’s painfully dull to watch in every movie I’ve ever seen in which she happens to play a part. (Granted, I don’t see a lot of movies where she’s the lead role.)
Is it just me or does Natalie Portman need to be nailed by the hammer of the Gods so we don’t have deal with this BS once and for all?
Sure! It worked most excellently for Ghostbusters
There was a Frida in Norse mythology. Friday is actually named after her just like Thor has Thursday named after Thor.They could have made this powerful female character fit in quite naturaly but noooooo...
“Its not creative or movie genius to change male characters to female ones. Its blase.”
It’s really a dumbass thing to do. The last Thor (Ragnarok) movie was one of my 3 favorite MCU movies.
I’ll likely still see it. Director will be the same one that did Ragnarok, and if it follows the comic book story of Jane becoming the god of thunder (from the little bit I’ve seen of it), I think it might have potential.
Having Valkyrie be gay is not really a surprise. I read somewhere that in the movie, she will be looking for a Queen. I presume that means she’s regent of new Asgard that is now located on earth (Norway, I believe). I did like her character introduced in Ragnarok.
I’m trying to keep an open mind.
This is gonna suck.
Horrible choice.
Great franchises (007, Marvel, Star Wars, etc. are ruined because of political correctness.
The best things in life are truly in the past.
No wonder I have not been in a theater in about 30 years.
Millions of dollars to put out the PC message “chicks can be Thor too”. Oh, for the days when the story was more important than all of the “genders” getting participation trophies.
Who was the last female Thor?
Ain’t watching any of that crap. I enjoy the regular movies, but when they pull this junk, they can kiss my butt goodbye.
Apparently in the comics Thor is dead and she’s Thor.
They’re also having Valkyrie rule Asgard and searching for her lesbian “queen”in the next movie.
A lot of people don’t realize in Endgame they started killing or ridiculing all the straight white characters.
Comic book. Not real. Thor not real. Batman not real. Only a comic and a movie.
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