Hindustan Times attended the worldwide press convention of Thor: Love and Thunder held on Friday night time. It noticed the movie’s stars Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Tessa Thompson, and Christian Bale being joined by director Taika Waititi and producer Kevin Feige. The workforce fielded questions in regards to the movie and the franchise in common.
At one level, Kevin Feige, who heads Marvel Studios, was requested about Thor’s future in the MCU after Love and Thunder. He responded, “Well, there are these things called comic books, that have a lot of stories in them. And that’s where all of our stories come from. And is the question, ‘Have you told all the great Thor stories from the comics and movies?’ The answer is no. There are lots of them.”
Kevin didn’t specify if that meant that the tales will embody Chris Hemsworth’s Thor or not however he did trace that the franchise was planning to take a look at different variations and iterations of the character. He added, “I’ve always said our interest in making additional stories is somewhat about continuing the character. It’s almost entirely about continuing the experience with the actor and being able to see… I think of all of our cast, not as their individual characters, but as the Marvel players who within that character can grow and evolve and change. And if we look at the comics as our guide, there are plenty of other incarnations of Thor that we’ve yet to see.”
One of the opposite incarnations Kevin mentions shall be seen in Love and Thunder itself as Natalie Portman’s Jane Foster will remodel into the Mighty Thor, a personality Marvel Comics have seen already. The MCU has additionally briefly proven a glimpse at a minimum of one different Thor in the current Disney+ sequence Loki. A stray Easter egg on the present depicted a frog model of Thor. In the comics, the character named Throg (actual identify Simon Walterson) has existed for fairly a while.
Kevin’s feedback do trace that MCU could also be gearing to have Chris cross on the battle axe to a brand new Thor, similar to it has accomplished for different main Avengers. In Falcon and the Winter Soldier, the mantle of Captain America handed from Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) to Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie). Similarly, Kate Bishop can be being established as the brand new Hawkeye. There are speculations that She Hulk will see Tatiana Maslany’s character step up to the plate to alleviate Mark Ruffalo’s Hulk. While Florence Pugh will take over from Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow. Also learn: Natalie Portman accidentally shares ‘big spoiler’ about Thor: Love and Thunder
With Phase 4 of the MCU halfway, Marvel Studios is setting up the following era of superheroes take a extra central function. This might imply Chris Hemsworth being changed as Thor by one other model of the character. Now, whether or not that’s Natalie Portman’s Mighty Thor or a very totally different character stays to be seen. Much of that shall be answered when Thor: Love and Thunder hits the screens in India on July 7. But one factor is for certain. In its interwoven net of sequence and movies, Marvel has sufficient characters and plots to maintain the viewers engaged for years.