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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LOL
It should be called
THONG
:)
Yes. Like Lewis and Tolkien, I was enamored of Norse Myth as a young boy. I read “The Sons of Odin” in third grade. I became interested in “Journey into Mystery with The Mighty Thor” because of that interest, not the other way around.
Hahaha the absolute height of foolishness and unintentional self paradoy.
To each his own. It does not bother me if you do not like them. However, their popular culture influence goes farther back than you credit.
Max Fleischer set a new state of the animation art with his Superman theatrical cartoons, just three years after Action #1 debuted in 1938.
Batman theatrical serials, like Flash Gordon, were around long, long ago. Superman: The Movie, a big-budget movie that advanced special effects, was almost half a century ago.
Hmmm, I thought an article I read said this would be Chris’s last time as Thor, but I can’t find it now. I still think it will be, as the original Avengers characters have been doing this for 8-11 years already and its time for them to go before they all start looking like old Captain America.
No offense, but I sincerely doubt it. He was happy with the direction Disney/Marvel was going; he was gleefully involved.
Stan Lee was a lifelong New York “liberal” (leftist) - as were/are most in the comics industry.
He consciously chose to imbue Carol Danvers with male Mar-Vell’s Kree powers, and named her Ms. Marvel, in 1977 in response to the publication of Ms. Magazine. That was overt feminism by Lee and Marvel - over 50 years ago!
The apparent former patriotism in comics was allowed because, back then, their fellow leftists successfully portrayed the NAZIs as extreme right wing (instead of what they were: just another flavor of socialist) , so it was all right for them to be pro-American in that situation.
As the 1960s counter culture took hold - and with the 1954 Senate hearings on Comics (”Seduction of the Innocent”) well behind them - they really started showing their left-wing colors, becoming more and more emboldened with each passing decade.
Both Captain America (Marvel) and Superman (DC) - the most patriotic characters - became explicitly anti-American as the years went by.
Yep. Wednesday: (W)Odin’s Day; Tuesday: Tyr’s Day.
I used to love The Mighty Thor when I was a kid - can still remember lying sick in bed with the flu in the third grade reading it (Thor Encounters The Awesome Eye Of Odin!). But I’d read that they’ve made Thor’s boring girlfriend Jane (the one he dumped for the very hot Sif) into the new Thor in the comics - I can’t imagine it’s very interesting, or that the movie will be, because Jane wasn’t very interesting. But whatever - they’re just movie characters and I doubt kids even read comics anymore.
over 50 = almost 50.
Carol Danvers was introduced over 50 years ago; Ms. Marvel was introduced almost 50 years ago.
I can’t wait to NOT see it.
Not a single person with the picture of Natalie Portman with Hillary Clinton, yet. Not, even, me.
So stupid.
Life goes on in the fantasy world of the Unicorn Farm.
The casting couch got hot!
>>Stan Lee must be turning over his grave...
No. I saw Stan Lee a few years ago and he didn’t spend his time at a Marvel panel discussing the past, working in publishing. It was all about the MCU movies and new titles and the chief talking point was “Marvel’s gonna have an Indian superhero, and the new blah blah is gonna be a woman, and ‘we are gonna have a...’”. Pandering at the lowest level. Very superficial. No discussion below that surface.
There was a black Green Lantern nearly 50 years ago. Marvel in the 70s made female counterparts to the male charactes (Ms. Marvel, Spider-Woman, She-Hulk...) but this is ramping up the shift of replacement. A character’s been run out of the lead role of his film series only 4 films into the franchise. It happened in the first film of Captain Marvel. These are characters that have over 50 years of “stories”. That’s a lot of retro-continuity history being revised to dump the “classics” to push an agenda.
I wouldn’t expect an adaptation of the full story arc of any Marvel character’s history but y’might think that they’d at least TRY to capture what made the characters memorable to the public at large.
She’s not worthy.
When are the red kryptonite Supemen coming to the screen?
If Marvel-Disney really wanted to be Woke, they’d cast Bruce Jenner as female Thor. Or RuPaul.
>>Not Fair, it’s a Transvestite’s turn.
Tim Curry is too old for the part
I could give a shit
Not guilty but daft
Who makes comic book movies?
Queers?
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