IESB.net reports that newly named Thor director Matthew Vaughn is rumored to be considering Kevin McKidd for the role of the God of Thunder.
If true, that would mean two actors have made the jump from HBO’s Rome to Marvel movies. Last week, McKidd’s co-star, Ray Stevenson, was confirmed as the lead in The Punisher.
McKidd stars in the upcoming NBC series, Journeyman, and played in one of my favorite werewolf movies, 2002’s Dog Soldiers.
August 14th, 2007 at 9:55 am
Great actor, but he’s a little small for the role, no? Or maybe its because I was always seeing him stand next to Titus Pullo (who towered over him). Still, slap a beard on him, and he could pull it off.
August 14th, 2007 at 9:56 am
This would be fantastic. The guy is a brilliant actor and he looks the part. “Rome” proves than he can pull off the regal, period movement and formal cadences of speech required for a Norse god.
He’s not quite as big, but he can always work out to add bulk and “The Lord Of The Rings” films proved that size issues can be overcome. I’d much rather have someone like this than some wrestler just because he may be a big dude.
This makes me a lot more excited for this Thor movie.
August 14th, 2007 at 10:50 am
Well I read over at CBR that CHUD is reporting that Marvel wants wrestler Triple H for Thor and Vaughn wants McKidd thusly causing some tension between the two (Marvel and Vaughn). Hmmm could we be seeing McKidd as Donald Blake and Triple H as Thor a la Bixby and Ferrigno? I’m thinking so and calling it here first folks! SCOOP!!!
That and I wanted to use “thusly” in a Thor topic.
August 14th, 2007 at 11:32 am
Sean Bean would be perfect for Thor
August 14th, 2007 at 12:00 pm
I was thinking Sean Bean, too, but good old Lucius Vorenus could work out quite well.
August 14th, 2007 at 6:25 pm
I’d love McKidd as Thor… but come on… Matthew Vaughan just had a bigger bomb than Cutthroat Island. If Marvel lets him do Thor, they’re flushing their money down the toilet….
August 14th, 2007 at 11:10 pm
Vaughan’s not responsible for Stardust’s box office and everyone knows it. It got great reviews and little marketing. It happens.
Also, McKidd is PERFECT casting for Thor. Anyone thinking he’s too small first needs to get realistic and second needs to watch the first season of Rome. Plus he can talk the talk as well!
August 15th, 2007 at 6:41 am
Thorteenth!
(sorry)
August 15th, 2007 at 7:37 pm
Now all they need to do is make a Thor/Punisher movie reuniting Pullo & Vorenus!
August 25th, 2007 at 5:18 pm
Kevin McKidd in Tinseltown.
Here we have a man who is a born actor. A man with the striking ability to paint dead sharp portraits on a square inch. A man who can act his socks off and whose performance can leave the spectator breathless. A man, as young as he is, with many accolades behind his name, earned on stage (a.o. Bitannicus, Far Away) as well as on celluloid (a.o. The Acid House, Topsy-Turvy, Anna Karenina, Afterlife, Sixteen Years of Alcohol, Gunpowder: Treason and Plot, Rome).
Alas, Great Britain doesn’t appreciate actors like him and expects that he delivers the good stuff for very little money. And so America becomes the promised land to earn big cash.
But what if it means that America can only offer Kevin McKidd the leadrole as a comicstrip hero called ‘Thor’? And for which part he has to compete with a bulky hulk called tripleH?
Triple Auch!!! from the bottom of my heart.
We could already ‘enjoy’ him as a brute of a Goth in ‘The Last Legion’ who spoke with a slightly Scottish accent every now and then, if he spoke at all. And I mean a real pure brute. The kind that you most certainly don’t want to meet at ten o’clock at night because he has only one mission in life: to kill anybody on the wrong side of the track.
Well, if that were his marching orders then it’s a job well done; in fact he was the only interesting character due to his humorous example of overacting in an otherwise idiotic movie.
But I’m convinced that the world can do very well without these kind of one-sided performances and I’d rather watch him again as an overacting leprechaun.
What a waste and what a shame that an actor like him with his enormous capacities has to end up in sloppy directed crap movies like ‘Hannibal Rising’ and ‘The Last Legion’.
So, please America, give him worthy parts with good directors in exciting movies in which he can show his real potential. Or even better, Great Britain, pay your prominent actors good salaries.
H. Pera, the Netherlands.