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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I would have preferred a movie about SIF. She’s an established MCU character. Maybe Jaimie Alexander didn’t want to do it.
Comics have gone so far off the original canon that when millennial colleagues would show them to me. Then let me read them, the characters and their backstories were unrecognizable.
Ah jeez....
She looks like Thor....
Ha! I’d actually pay to see a movie about frog Thor!
Tim Curry is too old for the part
Not to mention, dead.
They did this briefly in the Comics.... stupid then, stupid now...
I suspect Marvel’s box office takes will start to dwindle.. just like the Comic Brand cratered when they let the SJW take over
Oh yeah killed (straight) Black Widow.
They’re bringing her back. There’s a Black Widow movie coming out.
In comics, nobody’s dead forever, except Uncle Ben and Bruce Wayne’s parents.
And, the Black Widow movie is a prequel. One scene is in the much talked about Budapest.
You’re a sucker who believes satire from babylonbee.com. LOL
These youngins will believe anything.
Well, I’ll be... I would have sworn I read he passed.
I have a good friend that reminds me of Tim... Thanks for the correction!
She’d be much more believable hefting a smaller hammer...say a meat tenderizer or some other kitcheny gizmo.
A prequel isn’t exactly bringing her back.
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