News that breaks on a Saturday morning already has a tendency to slip through the cracks, but when that Saturday happens to be Christmas Eve, that’s a near-guarantee that a story will be under-reported.
Which is why you may have not heard yet the news that Deadline broke three days ago: Alan Taylor, a veteran of acclaimed TV shows including Mad Men, The Sopranos and Game of Thrones, is now on board to direct 2013′s Thor 2. Taylor is replacing Monster director Patty Jenkins, who left the project earlier this month amid reported “creative differences.” Jenkins herself was to replace Kenneth Branagh, director of the original Thor.
Taylor has prior feature directing experience — 1995′s Palookaville, which had a very limited release but appearances from Frances McDormand, Vincent Gallo and Boardwalk Empire’s William Forsythe. Thor 2, from Marvel Studios and once again starring Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman and Tom Hiddleston, is scheduled for Nov. 15, 2013.
December 27th, 2011 at 9:19 pm
The fact that Taylor was involved with the Sopranos is enough to give him my vote!!!
December 28th, 2011 at 6:17 pm
I’m satisfied with this decision, as I was with Patty Jenkins.
My hope is that THOR 2 will introduce BALDER onto the cinematic stage and tell the story of his death, which ushers-in RAGNAROK, which will be the entire plot/movie of THOR 3, where we see THOR battle and defeat one of LOKI’s offspring: The Midgard Serpent.
My vision:
Thor 2 will start with an opening story showing BALDER’s mother being warned by an oracle that her son will be killed, unless she gets “refusals” from each and every living thing in the universe, which she gets, except from the innocent Mistletoe, which ultimately becomes the only thing that can penetrate BALDER’s skin. During an Asgardian warrior’s contest, his blind brother, HORDER shoots him with a mistletoe arrowhead, provided by a disguised LOKI. After the opening story, we get to the meat of the movie, which shows THOR (already on Earth, from the Avengers) disrupting a street-level crime by a crook named Crusher Creel, (soon to be: The Absorbing Man), who vows revenge on THOR upon his arrest. This threat is overheard by LOKI, who sees that he can manipulate this human, empowers him so that he can now face and fight THOR on more equal terms. Crusher Creel defeats THOR the 2nd time around, ONLY because the simultaneous death of Balder alters the Asgardian “flow-of-energies” and disrupts Mjolnir’s powers, which near the end of the movie, forces THOR to return to Asgard to investigate this problem. Upon returning to Asgard, he learns of the horrific tragedy and the movie ends with an angry THOR and his de-powered hammer, Balder’s [death] and Odin worried over the coming of the War of Gods. THOR 3: RAGNAROK is the title of the 3rd installment of this trilogy.
THIS story CAN work, with a little tweaks. But it would be an awesome direction, into which to take the trilogy.
Marvel…give me a call. I’ll direct this movie for FREE, since THOR is my all-time-favorite superhero.