Saturday was Marvel’s big day at Comic-Con 2010. They showed off some teasers regarding their future movies: Captain America: The First Avenger, Thor, and The Avengers. Let’s take a look at some of the “live blogging” highlights from Thor’s big panel.
7:03 It’s hammer time! Kenneth Branagh, director of Thor is now on stage!
7:04 Branagh has been a fan of Thor for years. Loves the look of the character, the different worlds.
7:05 Bringing out Clark Gregg, Tom Hiddleston, Kat Dennings, Natalie Portman and Chris Hemsworth.
7:06 Hemsworth looked to the comics to find out how to hold Mjolnir.
7:07 Anthony Hopkins has brought great enthusiasm to the set, things appear to be going well
7:08 Jane Foster isn’t the most defined character in the comics, but Portman finds it as an exciting opportunity and open to finding new colors. Exciting to play a scientist on screen which is rare of women without a sexual side.
7:09 Darcy, played by Dennings, is Jane Foster’s assistant/sidekick/protege who doesn’t know how to do anything. Dennings jokes that nobody really cares about her being out there, and it hits pretty close to home. Why is she being considered an important enough character for this panel?
7:11 Loki is the agent of chaos and the damaged younger brother, the one that is overlooked – Tom Hiddleston
7:12 Loki is a great liar and you can’t tell if he’s lying or telling the truth.
7:20 Just showed the first Thor trailer. Intense and full of passion. Details to follow.
UPDATE: The trailer starts with Thor sitting in a chair being interrogated by Agent Coulson. Thor has just broken into the S.H.I.E.L.D. compound and taken out all of the guards. Action scenes with Thor kicking the crap out of guards is shown between shots. Coulson says the only way that is possible is for Thor to have had similar training. Thor stays silent but glares at him.
The shot expands to the wider galaxy and Odin’s voice is heard. He is talking about handing down his throne in succession, but that Thor lacks humility and is arrogant, saying “You are a vain, greedy, cruel boy.” Thor responds, “and you are an old man and a fool” Odin takes his hammer and powers and banishes him to Earth until he learns his lesson. Jane Foster finds Hemsworth in the desert and he says, “Oh man, I’m on Earth aren’t I?”
Cut to the next morning and Thor is getting out of the shower. Darcy quips that for a homeless man he is pretty cut. Thor and Jane for a ride and she asks him what he was doing the night before. She tells him that there is the view of magic and the view of science on Earth, but in Valhalla it is all one and the same. He then knows that he must reclaim Mjolnir to get his powers back, and heads to the S.H.I.E.L.D. compound. He tries to pull the hammer from the stone, but because he is not yet worthy he cannot.
Back in Valhalla, Odin is dying and Frigga, Odin’s wife, hands the throne to the next in succession: Loki. The soldiers of Valhalla are forced to bow to him. On Earth, Thor says that for the first time he doesn’t know what to do with himself. The scene then cuts to action, Thor throwing his hammer, doing battle with soldiers, and kissing Jane Foster. The title card comes up.
Out in the desert, Coulson and some S.H.I.E.L.D. agents find The Destroyer armor. One agent asks Coulson if it is one of Starks but he responds, “I don’t know, that guy never tells me anything.” He grabs a megaphone and says that he is in posession of an unregistered weapon. The face of The Destroyer begins to shift and Coulson thinks that it will reveal Stark’s face, but instead it’s a gold beam of energy the starts blowing things to shit before hitting the camera to another title card, announcing its release in May 2011.
7:21 First look at The Destroyer destroying things in the desert with Coulson and SHIELD.
7:22 Portman wanted to do this film because of its scope and focus on character (and working with the other actors. Not in The Avengers but will be in the future Thor films.
7:23 Con staple Bob Stencil is up with a simple question: does Thor smash Loki with a hammer and will it be sweet? Natalie Portman tells him he is the winner, and someone else quips that Stencil has just named the moderator for Thor 2
7:24 Speaking on Norton and Hulk -Going for continuity but the Hulk will live on, bigger than all of us…the panel is not over yet
7:26 Branagh drawing some very interesting ties between Henry V and Thor. Makes some very interesting points.
7:27 Hemsworth did his homework by sitting with Ken Feige and going through books. A ton of comic books, Norse mythology. Any kind of influence they could. He didn’t read the comics as a kid.
7:28 The Punisher is now back in Marvel’s hands and they are working on bringing him back. Full story here.
7:29 An audience questioner doesn’t know Wolverine belongs to Fox. Tsk tsk.
7:30 Branagh had a mix of dread and confidence while looking through the script. There are quite a bit of action scenes from the look of the trailer.
Damn. From what I’ve read, Thor’s panel seems to have been a little more complete and awesome than Cap’s one. I’m excited at just reading the description of Thor’s first trailer. Can’t wait to see it. I’m just a little more excited to see Thor’s than that of Cap’s. It’s always cool to get to see the actors come to Comic-Con and talk about their roles and experiences regarding the movie. Stuff like that is what makes Comic-Con great each year.
What do you guys think? Thor! Loki! The Destroyer! Are you excited?
I think this will be an interesting “super hero” comic movie… certainly not the standard fare. I think it’ll be good, smart and probably successful… though we certainly saw with The Watchmen (and even Kick-Ass to a certain extent) that good and smart doesn’t necessarily translate into box office success. That said, the two movies I just referenced there in this discussion had the distinction of being Rated R, which certainly keeps some of the core demographic out of the paying audience (I say paying because I honestly think there were lots of teens who bought tickets to random movie X and then went to see Kick-Ass or The Watchmen, instead).
Sounds good to me!
This sounds WAYYY moar exciting than CA.
Icant wait till they make another punisher movie, and the trailer comes out ans the the first thing you see is the disney logo.