It’s been awhile since we’ve seen Thor and Hulk. The former left on a quest to discover what was going on with the Infinity Gems (as we know Thanos is collecting them for his gauntlet), and Hulk flew off in the Quinjet after Black Widow broke his big, green heart. Thor 3, entitled Thor: Ragnarok, returns us to Asgard and it is a changed place indeed. Loki deposed Odin at the end of Thor: The Dark World, and it seems he’s lost his own place to Hela (Cate Blanchett), the Queen of the Norse Underworld. If Marvel has a consistent criticism it’s that it has focused on its heroes nearly to the exclusion of developing iconic villains (Loki aside). Hela is on a very different level of power than Loki or Malekith and she demonstrates that about 20 seconds into this awesome first look at the Marvel fall film.
Thor: Ragnarok is also a cosmic film, straddling the MCU proper with the MCU cosmic. Banished to a gladitorial world, Thor is reunited with Hulk (this is as close to a Planet Hulk film as we’ll ever get since Universal is still fighting Marvel in court over the rights to make solo Hulk films). Hulk…..not so happy to see him, though. A full and proper synopsis is below as well as what Thor was up to when the rest of the Marvel Cinematic Universe was beating itself silly during Civil War. I think the trailer looks awesome….but what is up with the weird 80’s video game lettering? Nitpick. This will be issue #17 of the MCU, out this November.
In Marvel Studios’ Thor: Ragnarok, Thor is imprisoned on the other side of the universe without his mighty hammer and finds himself in a race against time to get back to Asgard to stop Ragnarok – the destruction of his homeworld and the end of Asgardian civilization – at the hands of an all-powerful new threat, the ruthless Hela. But first he must survive a deadly gladatorial contest that pits him against his former ally and fellow Avenger – the Incredible Hulk!
Thor: Ragnarok will feature the return of Chris Hemsworth as the God of Thunder himself, with Tom Hiddleston as Loki, Mark Ruffalo as the Hulk, Idris Elba as Heimdall and Sir Anthony Hopkins again portraying Odin. The film also stars Cate Blanchett as the death-obsessed Hela, Tessa Thompson as hero Valkyrie, Jeff Goldblum as the eccentric Grandmaster and Karl Urban as Skurge. Also among the cast is Sam Neill, reuniting with Taika Waititi, who directed him in his previous film Hunt for the Wilderpeople, and his Jurassic Park co-star Jeff Goldblum. Finally, as teased at the end of his solo film, Benedict Cumberbatch’s Doctor Strange will team with the God of Thunder to deal with Loki.
Kevin Feige will produce the film, joined by executive producers Louis D’Esposito, Brad Winderbaum, Victoria Alonso, Thomas M. Hammel and Stan Lee. The screenplay hails from Stephany Folsom, Craig Kyle, Eric Pearson and Christopher Yost.
Thor: Ragnarok will smash its way into theaters on November 3, 2017.
Is it just me, or does this look incredible visually? Might be the best MCU trailer to date. I love the intergalactic stuff, and clearly the people at Disney are truly intent on expanding the canvas now, because this is coming really close to GOTG2. Sorry, but Homecoming looks like a wispy diversion to me. The new trailer looks like it actually shrinks the MCU. It would be different if it looked like Peter would be explored like never before, but they’re just sending him back to high school, and he’s even more of a smartass kid than ever before. It’s the epic, cosmic stuff that will keep people sticking with the MCU post Infinity War, and the character explortation. Things need to get richer and deeper.
I’m sure you’ve heard, but the director of Ragnarok is next set to co-direct an animated film told from the perspective of Micheal Jackson’s real-life pet monkey Bubbles (unless the project fell through and I did not hear about it). So I hope Ragnarok turns out to be as good as it looks, for the sake of his career. He could use a real mega blockbuster, to help bolster him through the coming bad times.
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