Breaking: Watch the Comic-Con Thor Trailer
Over the weekend at San Diego Comic-Con, Marvel showed a trailer of footage from Thor. Well, now a digital copy of that footage has leaked onto the internet, which was almost certainly not the intention and just as almost certainly inevitable. I don’t know what the first site to get the scoop was, but the first place I saw it was on io9, so that’s who I’ll link to.
The movie stars Chris Hemsworth as the God of Thunder, who is cast out of Asgard by his father Odin (Anthony Hopkins) and ends up as a sort of superhero on Earth who likes to smack things with his hammer, Mjolnir. Natalie Portman plays his love interest on Earth, Jane Foster, Tom Huddleston plays Loki, one of the biggest villains in the Marvel universe, and the whole shebang is directed by none other than Kenneth Branagh.
So how does it look? Well, I have a feeling some people will be completely on board with it and some people will not. I look at the Asgard stuff and think it looks amazing, while other people may just think it’s cheesy (and yeah, it does have a little bit of 300-ness to it that’s a mite unsettling). To me it looks like Branagh’s directing another of his Shakespeare movies in these scenes, only with an even more elaborate set. We don’t see a lot of the action sequences, but what we do see looks pretty cool.
However, what will make the movie sink or swim is most likely how Hemsworth’s Thor relates to the “real world” around him, and after seeing this footage I still have no idea whether that will work. I see no evidence that it won’t, but there isn’t any real evidence that it will, either. Actually, the person whose performance really stands out in what we see here is Clark Gregg as Agent Coulson. He has to be one of the main pieces holding all these Marvel movies together, and he seems to be doing a great job of it. Also, is it just me, or does Thor roar like a lion at some point in here? Hopefully just some wonky unfinished sound effects.
I was surprised by how long the trailer here is, over four minutes, so if you’re really spoiler sensitive this might not be for you. However, there isn’t much plotwise that might surprise a comics fan here. So here it is, the Comic-Con Trailer for Thor:
Editor’s note: Sadly, Marvel has bullied most everyone into taking down the new Thor trailer. We hope you had a chance to see it while it was still available!
The film is in theaters in May 2011.
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