Branagh? THOR? Really?

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1. eDWeiRD 09/30/2008 @ 4:05pm

   Sci-Fi Channels news site had it yesterday.

   http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?id=60730

   Freaked me out too.

2. Kurt Halfyard 09/30/2008 @ 4:41pm

   Adventures in Babysitting.  Vincent D’Onofrio.  That’s as much Thor as I need, personally.

3. jessekale 09/30/2008 @ 6:24pm

   Don’t know why people keep saying he can’t handle it. Did people really think Joe F the guy from swingers, could handle such an expensive movie as Iron Man when we first heard that news. If anything this guy has more experiance than Joe does.

4. Simon Abrams 09/30/2008 @ 7:05pm

   Jon Favreau, not Joe.

   I think it’ll make an interesting experiment.

5. Metrogenic 09/30/2008 @ 9:03pm

   Yeah, I’m pretty sure I had quite a bit of faith in Favreau back then. And Joe? Really?

6. Ard Vijn 10/01/2008 @ 1:26am

   Branagh has handled epic spectacle in his version of “Henry V”, and has loads of special effects experience from projects like “Kenneth Branagh’s Failed Amalgamation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and James Whale’s Bride of Frankenstein”.
   
   He’s actually not that bad a director. When he’s set on an idea on what his movie should look, sound and play like, he sticks to it.
   I just hope he has the right idea here.

7. Aceholeo182 10/01/2008 @ 3:47am

   Anyone seen him play Ivanov at the Donmar in the London West End yet? I’m going in a couple of weeks, and people are already calling it the best performance of the year. I will always have faith in this man.

8. kenshiro7 10/01/2008 @ 4:40am

   I think Kenneth Branagh is the perfect director for Thor.

9. Todd Brown 10/01/2008 @ 4:51am

   I have a lot of faith in Branagh as an actor but as a director his only forays into genre stuff - the aforementioned Frankenstein - have been pretty awful.  And as for Favreau, yeah - I had total faith in him.  Zathura anyone?  That flick’s great!

10. Collin Armstrong 10/01/2008 @ 5:01am

    How about DEAD AGAIN?  Great suspense, some really inventive set-pieces.  One of my favorites from Branagh.  Clearly an effort on Marvel’s part to continue looking for unconventional talents to steer their projects.  Good on them.

11. Todd Brown 10/01/2008 @ 6:47am

    That’s an interesting call, Collin.  And unconventional is definitely the choice ... I’m just really not sure what to expect either from Branagh in this environment or from the film in general.  I would’ve thought Thor would be one of the very LAST properties to be filmed as I just think it’ll be well nigh impossible to do with a straight face.  But who knows ... maybe Branagh can find some way of capturing the seriousness of the character, I’m sure that Marvel was thinking of his Shakespeare adaptations when they hired him rather than the other stuff.  If he manages to pull that off we could have a prety fantastic film here but anything else will be a HORRIBLE train wreck.  But hey ... better Branagh than McG or Brett Ratner or whoever their current clone may be ...

12. Collin Armstrong 10/01/2008 @ 7:12am

    It’s true, his one foray into large-scale studio filmmaking was pretty much a disaster (think of FRANKENSTEIN).  And THOR is a weird choice, no doubt. 

    I suppose my attitude is, I’d rather have it be a bizarre, massive debacle (thinking HULK or DUNE - which I love for various reasons but can see their many faults) then a bland, DAREDEVIL-style exercise - though I would love for the end result to be a fun and idiosyncratic as IRON MAN, and am hoping for just that.

    Next question is, who the hell could play the lead?  Not sure there’s a Robert Downey-esque choice out there for this one.  Maybe a buffed-up Brad Pitt, though he might be a touch too old now.

13. Ard Vijn 10/01/2008 @ 7:27am

    Jean-Claude van Damme, of course! Why do you even ask?

14. Collin Armstrong 10/01/2008 @ 7:36am

    That would blow my mind.

15. Simon Abrams 10/01/2008 @ 8:20am

    I was thinking Chuck Norris, personally. And so was Chuck Norris.

16. hell 10/05/2008 @ 3:09pm

    am i the only one here who liked frankstein?! i’ve read the book and Branagh did a faithful adaptation and sure not the movies monster but the true one. its a great movie in my oponion… and yeah i believe he can do a great job…
    a choice for thor could be the guy from 13th warrior: Valdmir Kulich

17. Ichi-The-Killer 10/07/2008 @ 12:55am

    Dam good director choice on Marvels part, never liked Thor much though.

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