The studio, run at the time by David Maisel with Kevin Feige as president of production, hired Mark Protosevich ( I Am Legend and the unfilmed Batman Unchained) to write a script for Thor, with Matthew Vaughn ( X-Men: First Class) coming aboard to direct in August 2007.
Goyer writing and possibly directing) until landing back at Marvel Studios, which had reinvented itself as an independently financed production company in 2005 with distribution through Paramount Pictures. The rights to Thor bounced around Hollywood for a few more years (at one point it was set up at Sony with David S. Thor took the franchise off the Earth for the first time and into the cosmic side of the Marvel mythology, introducing audiences to the Nine Realms, the kingdom of Asgard, and other mind-bending concepts that comic fans had adored for years but which were a major risk to put in front of mainstream moviegoers. “Which was providing a sort of backbone that they could comically riff off, but at least it originally contained some of the high stakes Nine Realms import that that larger mythology has to have as well.” “I’m very proud of my part of it,” Branagh told us a couple of years ago about his handling of Thor.
It was also - as we look back at it now - a pivotal one in the development of the MCU. Marvel’s Thor, the first theatrical live-action film to feature the comic book giant’s version of the Norse God of Thunder, opened in theaters a decade ago, on May 6, 2011.ĭirected by Kenneth Branagh and starring a then little-known Chris Hemsworth in the title role, Thor was the fourth film in the still-nascent Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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