CBR: CCI: "Thor" Cast On Director Branagh

[CBR News]

After a successful Comic-Con panel, the cast of "Thor" spoke with CBR News about their director Kenneth Branagh and their experiences working with him on set while Branagh discussed his actors' homework assignments.


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[jtmaxwell]

and this is why i love Kenneth Branagh. really hoping Thor gets a St. Crispin's Day moment in this. ;)

[hysang]

Ken Branagh would make a pretty cool Reed Richards or failing that, Dane Whitman. :)

[DeadXMan]

Branagh as Doom

[Duke Stratosphere]

and this is why i love Kenneth Branagh. really hoping Thor gets a St. Crispin's Day moment in this. ;)

Yes! Right before Thor leads the forces of Asgard to take out the troll army, lead by the Destroyer! Yeah, I know it wouldn't happen that way, but Branagh's St. Crispin's Day speech sounds like an invitation to Valhalla to me.

And Branagh as Doom?!??!?! YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That would make me forget the mostly <meh> Fantastic Four movies, of which I personally thought Doom was the worst part. He inspired not one ounce of dread, and that's just not Doom.

[Frank]

Eh That would be the least threatening Doom ever. At least physically.

[Hamdinger]

Nah. Just put the full Doom armor on him and he's be fine. Michael Keaton looked ok in the bat suit, Doom's full Armor would work even better, remember in those crappy FF movies their lame version of Doom didn't wear the full armor.

Or even better than that, have him dye his hair dark except for the temples and grow a mustache and we have ourselves an amazing Doctor Strange!

[DeadXMan]

Branagh is fairly fit ( he's not like Chris)

Plus Doom has a Shakespearean motif about him, ( Maybe a bit of Richard III, Macbeth, and Leer)

[Frank]

Nah. Just put the full Doom armor on him and he's be fine. Michael Keaton looked ok in the bat suit, Doom's full Armor would work even better, remember in those crappy FF movies their lame version of Doom didn't wear the full armor.

Or even better than that, have him dye his hair dark except for the temples and grow a mustache and we have ourselves an amazing Doctor Strange!

He looks like a nice dutch uncle.

To see him as Doom is the most incredible example of reaching i've ever seen.

[DeadXMan]

You have seen him act, right?

[Jmacq1]

I'd give him a cameo as the semi-retired Lord James Montgomery Falsworth (Union Jack I) in Captain America. He's in the right age-bracket to play a former hero of World War I in World War II.

[Damiean Dark]

Branagh as Doom is laughable stop giving him some sort of immortable status be cause he is English, he has made two good Shakespearian influenced films in Much Ado about Nothing and Henry V and people think he is god.

The new Thor movie does look great but im not overhyping Branaghs abilities especially as an actor. true actors who can portray menace and intelligence with a huge mix of arrogance who could rule as Doom are Daniel Day Lewis (thier will be blood,gangs of new york and Ralph Fiennes (the duchess,harry potter).

[Jmacq1]

I would be deeply surprised if Daniel Day-Lewis ever came within a light year of playing in a comic-book movie. It's hard to be "method" when your character patently cannot exist in the real world.

Fiennes on the other hand...if he was willing to sign on for the back-half of Harry Potter, I bet he might be willing to play in a superhero flick.

[Alton]

Siddhartha,Jane Foster as a scientist instead of a nurse,(where all the real work gets done in the field of medicine),a modern setting rather than the earlier promise of an entirely Asgardian setting,Portman and her warbly voice (not all the bad acting in Star Wars was Hayden Christensens fault).I don't see this as flying.In his own weird way Branagh seems committed to the project but has he successfully directed anything of this type before? I seem to remember a stab at Hamlet a few years ago, but that could work against this film in so many ways.I think this will be on the" borrow it on DVD from a friend for free"list.

[Jmacq1]

Siddhartha,Jane Foster as a scientist instead of a nurse,(where all the real work gets done in the field of medicine),a modern setting rather than the earlier promise of an entirely Asgardian setting.

Without Donald Blake as a factor, Jane Foster as scientist probably makes more sense than Jane Foster the nurse.

As for "modern setting" you DO realize that comic Thor spends as much or more time on Earth than he does in Asgard, right? There was never a "promise" of an "entirely Asgardian setting." There was a script written to that effect, and as soon as it was semi-publicly available it was made clear that it would never be filmed as such, because the estimated costs were prohibitive.

Nobody ever promised or even officially (or unofficially) hinted that the finished product would be "all Asgard, all the time."