Comments on: Matthew Vaughn Off Thor

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:08:31 +0000

I think they should follow the current Marvel arc, where Thor gets wiped out during Ragnorak. The only thing that survive are weapons from that last battle. They end up on Midgard millenia later. Good and Evil resurrect to collect the fragmented pieces. Whoever gets them first combines them to build one superpowerful weapon stronger than any god or demon.

Along with that, good gets re-born in a handicapped med student trying to figure out his ‘visions’.
He stumbles across people who mean more to him then he can fathom.
He learns there is more to himself than meets the eye.

Big Battle. Loki is back and still uber-jealous and twisted. He brought back trouble in the Enchantress and some demons.

Who can stop the bad guys from taking over? Only Thor with the help of Sif and Baldur, that’s who!

Then, Blake has to figure out how to bridge the two worlds. Will he lose himself in the process?

By: fanboy d

fanboy d — Sat, 10 May 2008 11:27:45 +0000

sad to see vaughn go though. i wan’t too struck on layer cake, but stardust was enjoyable.

By: fanboy d

fanboy d — Sat, 10 May 2008 11:24:19 +0000

they really need to include donald blake.

if marvel’s past success has taught them anything its that human alter egos are what provides the majority of tthe actual story in their films and the guys in costumes are around for the action scenes, not the drama.

i just don’t wan’t thor to be an action movie that comes out feeling like a video game movie, it needs to rival iron man to be respected and i think that donald blake is an integral part of that formula…so the period movie angle is disheartening.

By: Quenfis

Quenfis — Fri, 09 May 2008 16:10:43 +0000

Can’t we just get Vincent D’Onofrio to reprise his role?

By: Drewbdoo

Drewbdoo — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:05:01 +0000

I say good, very good. Layer Cake was like Diet Snatch (mwahaha, not even going to do anything with that one) and Stardust was surprisingly horrible and I loved the book. I have zero faith in matthew vaughn to make a decent flick, so this is very good news to me since I love thor

By: Allynd Dudnikov

Allynd Dudnikov — Fri, 09 May 2008 06:06:46 +0000

I have the Thor script.. its actually very good.
E-mail me for it?

By: Matthew

Matthew — Fri, 09 May 2008 00:24:04 +0000

Whatever happens, just make sure Josh Holloway plays Thor. It would be cool to do the whole LOTR in the first film and then have the hammer be found in the future for the sequel. DC needs to stop dragging their feet and get some movies made. Marvel is box office crazy.

By: Hunter Stephenson

Hunter Stephenson — Thu, 08 May 2008 23:27:20 +0000

@ oc

well said. this is the comic book flick i’m looking forward to most after tdk, though vaughn’s exit is a bummer.

By: SUe

SUe — Thu, 08 May 2008 23:09:03 +0000

I personally think the way to go about it would be to handle it in the way Mark Millar did in the Ultimates where he says he’s a God but everyone just believes him to be crazy.

By: Flint

Flint — Thu, 08 May 2008 22:51:58 +0000

That’s sort of the question — anyone can make a Thor movie, since nobody “owns” the mythology. So if Marvel isn’t going to make a movie about Marvel’s comic version of Thor and the mythology, why are they bothering?

By: orange cinema

orange cinema — Thu, 08 May 2008 22:40:16 +0000

thor as a period fantasy ala LOTR + the greek mythology element is EXACTLY what this story calls for!!! it will be a fresh take on the superhero film - which has become formulaic imo. not to mention it is what thor’s story calls for. i dont even care for thor, but if they do this story this way it will be a much needed injection of ‘NEW’ that these movies need, i’ll and be there to see it. bummer about vaugn, hopefully he can get back onboard, because i believe he was passionate about telling this tale.

By: Azure Trayl

Azure Trayl — Thu, 08 May 2008 22:30:38 +0000

I agree with some of the folks here. Thor as a periodic fantasy? Can’t work. Thor has to be part of this world if we are to include magic in the Marvel universe; besides, he was put on earth and bonded ( or mystically linked ) to Donald Blake to learn humility by Odin (via the manipulating ways of his brother Loki) We need him in this universe and this era.

By: giantman

giantman — Thu, 08 May 2008 22:08:07 +0000

This sounds like starting Captain America in WW2 and then having him frozen, but I like the idea of grounding Thor in his “native” period first and then bringing him into the modern era. Some of these characters work best in different periods, at least to establish them.

Heck, I still think Fantastic Four would’ve been much better if it had gone for a ’60s period.

By: Peter Sciretta

Peter Sciretta — Thu, 08 May 2008 21:23:23 +0000

Sue: Well Vaughn didn’t leave Thor, Thor left him. His holding deal expired, so for that he gets paid whatever is owed to him by his contract. Some movies like Tim Burton’s Superman movie that never happened not only pay the director (and star Nicolas Cage) for the development of the film, but also pays them the huge amount of money they would have made for directing/acting in the project, even if the film never actually happens. I’m not sure what exactly happened with Vaughn on X-Men 3, but I assume he got paid for his time in development, and nothing more.

By: Floppy

Floppy — Thu, 08 May 2008 21:21:20 +0000

Maybe they will just pull a real life Dethklok and film a $500 million turd and establish the most epic fail ever.

By: Flint

Flint — Thu, 08 May 2008 21:14:10 +0000

@Chimaera:

There is no Donald Blake (at least not in the draft I read, dated 4/4/07). The whole thing is like a Norse god family fued, set in Asgard and Midgard during the time of Vikings instead of the modern. It’s interesting and epic, but basically nothing like the Marvel character, which made me wonder why they were bothering, or how they’ll incorporate him into the Avengers . Trying to catch a LOTR type of audience, I guess.

(I kinda like the Ultimate comic version, myself)

By: SUe

SUe — Thu, 08 May 2008 21:11:23 +0000

Peter- Question: If someone comes onto a project and then leaves like Vaughn did on X3 and Thor do they still get compensated for the work that they did do?

By: A.J.

A.J. — Thu, 08 May 2008 21:09:14 +0000

Drunk Thor could team up with drunk Iron Man.

By: Chimaera

Chimaera — Thu, 08 May 2008 21:02:31 +0000

Thor in a period fantasy? But how does that work with his human alter ego, Donald Blake? He’s supposed to be a medical student/surgeon who discovers he’s the Thunder God, right? Are they doing away with the back story then? I’m just wondering how that works since he’s supposed to be in the same world as the Incredible Hulk and with the rest of the Avengers until the void at least….I guess more details are needed.

By: Pete

Pete — Thu, 08 May 2008 20:50:49 +0000

I liked the Thor from the Incredible Hulk TV Movie! Man he could drink!