Thor: Love And Thunder (July 8, 2022)

Sif Returns To The MCU: Jaimie Alexander To Reprise Role In ‘Thor: Love And Thunder’

After missing out on Thor: Ragnarok, Jaimie Alexander is set to make return to Asgard. Sources tell Deadline Alexander will return to the next installment in the Thor series, Thor: Love And Thunder in the role of Sif.

Marvel had no comment.

Sources also add this may not be the only property Sif appears as insiders believe Alexander could also have a guest spot on the Disney+ series Loki.

Both projects were part of the Disney Investors Presentation where Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige announced the return of Chris Hemsworth as Thor and also confirmed Christian Bale castings for Thor: Love And Thunder. Production on that film begins next month with Taika Waititi returning as director.

As for Loki, the series will premiere next May with Tom Hiddleston playing the title character. Owen Wilson and Gugu Mbatha-Raw are also on board.

Alexander’s character was a fan favorite in the first two installments as one of Thor’s companions in Asgard and return should excite the franchise’s fan base.

In TV, Alexander recently starred in thriller drama series Blindspot, which aired on NBC for five seasons.

Oscar winner Christian Bale is officially making his foray into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He is set to play Gorr the God Butcher in Thor: Love And Thunder, the fourth installment of the Thor franchise that is being directed by Taika Waititi.

Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Natalie Portman and Tessa Thompson return to their roles in the pic, which is schedule to open in theaters on May 6, 2022.

The Bale casting and character was confirmed Thursday by Marvel boss Kevin Feige during Marvel Studios’ portion of Disney Investor Day.

Gorr the God Butcher is part of the original Marvel comic IP. He inherits supernatural powers and looks to destroy all gods as payback after his family is killed one by one, and he has a history of run-ins with Thor and Loki.

Marvel announced Thor: Love and Thunder at San Diego Comic-Con in 2019, with the plot including Portman’s character becoming first female Thor on screen.

The three previous Thor movies have grossed more than $1.9 billion worldwide.

UltimateMarvel wrote:Jaimie Alexander, very nice!

Portman becomes a female Thor, so it begins.....

Russell Crowe has joined the cast of Marvel’s Thor: Love And Thunder joining Chris Hemsworth, who is reprising his role as the God of Thunder, Natalie Portman and Christian Bale, who will be playing the villain. The role is being kept under wraps and the hope was to surprise fans with this fun cameo when the film was released but following recent photos of Crowe hanging out with the cast all over Australia, Deadline has confirmed he is in the movie. Insiders say Crowe is one of many surprises to come out of the film with Matt Damon also confirmed to reprise his cameo from Thor: Ragnarok.

Taika Waititi is back as director of the of the movie with plot details being kept under wraps. The film is set to bow on May 6, 2022.

Crowe was recently tapped to star opposite Zac Efron in Peter Farrelly’s The Greatest Beer Run Ever, which was just acquired. On top of that he was most recently seen in the Solstice Studios thriller Unhinged.

Russell Crowe has revealed that the god Zeus is his mystery role in the upcoming Marvel sequel Thor: Love and Thunder.

UltimateMarvel wrote:Cool! He will probably get killed by Bale's character since he's going after all the gods.

UltimateMarvel wrote:I didn't think it could get worse than Ragnarok, teaser was trash.

Tyger wrote:WORSE than Ragnarok, the only decent Thor movie??

Rusty wrote:LOL. Ragnarok is the only one worth watching.

Rusty wrote:

UltimateMarvel wrote:I didn't think it could get worse than Ragnarok, teaser was trash.

LOL. Ragnarok is the only one worth watching.

Tyger wrote:Thor didn’t work seriously, it just didn’t. Part of that is the casting, part is writing, but those first 2 movies are so bland and forgettable. Ragnarok might not technically be a good Thor movie, I can’t say, I’m not a big fan of the character, but it’s definitely the only movie with Thor in the lead worth watching more than once.

Assuming Jane will be an alt universe version, but I could be wrong

UltimateMarvel wrote:First Thor in it's serious tone was good to me. The acting was better and the way they spoke was different, it's changed now after his time on Earth but it was good. I just saw it differently, we'll just have to agree to disagree on this one.

I do love it when Rocket, Groot, and Thor team up. They had great scenes in Infinity War.

UltimateMarvel wrote:I like Bale's look but that's about the only good thing I'll say about this, it just looks terrible to me.

Tyger wrote:Yeah that surprised me too

Tyger wrote:Ohhhhh shit, good catch

For “Thor: Love and Thunder,” Natalie Portman is returning not only as Jane Foster — the brilliant astrophysicist and ex-girlfriend of Asgardian warrior Thor (Chris Hemsworth) — but as the Mighty Thor, Jane’s superhero persona when she comes into possession of the mystical hammer Mjolnir.

Becoming a Marvel Studios hero meant Portman worked with a trainer for 10 months before and during shooting to build up her muscle mass in a way she’d never been asked to before.

“I definitely got as big as I’ve ever been,” Portman explained for Variety‘s cover story. “You realize, ‘Oh, this must be so different, to walk through the world like this.'”

Portman means that quite literally. Along with getting her arms and shoulders as swole as humanly possible, Portman’s Mighty Thor also stands 6 feet tall — nearly 10 inches larger than Portman’s actual height.

“As a 5-foot-3 woman, I don’t know that I’m ever going to be cast again as a 6-foot character,” Portman said with a laugh. “I really relished people seeing me as big.”

To date, no one has figured out how an actor can safely elongate their body, so director Taika Waititi and his crew needed to figure out how to get Portman to the proper height for scenes in which she walked with her co-stars. Their solution proved to be about as low-tech as a Marvel movie can get.

“We’d rehearse the scene, they’d see the path, and then they’d build a path that was like one foot off the ground or whatever, and I would just walk on that,” Portman explained.

When Variety asked Portman’s costar Tessa Thompson — who is reprising her role as Valkyrie from 2017’s “Thor: Ragnarok” — about the process to embiggen Portman’s Mighty Thor, the actor immediately broke into laughter.

“They would call it a deck, but depending on the accent, sometimes it sounded like something else,” Thompson recalled. “Because we’re all children.”

“It was actually one of our running jokes,” Portman said before leaping up from her chair with a grin. She began demonstrating how Hemsworth would contort his body to cross over the deck during shooting without breaking his stride. “Chris would have to …” she said before attempting to take a wide step while keeping her head level. She giggled: “They’d all have to navigate my deck!”

The experience of becoming a Marvel superhero also gave Portman a new perspective on what Hemsworth has had to do for over a decade to maintain his Asgardian physique.

“It’s a quite intense and quite disciplined lifestyle to get to that appearance,” she said. “Chris works so, so hard. Just constantly, every time he has a break, he has to be doing some sort of training. … It’s also the eating and saunas and ice baths and sleep, all this stuff to get everything looking right. It’s a full-time job!”

UltimateMarvel wrote:That's funny! She does look amazing, I've never seen her with muscles in other roles before.

UltimateMarvel wrote:Watched it last night and it was worse than I expected. This may be the worst MCU movie. Jokes, jokes, and more jokes. Zeus portrayed as an idiot by a great actor, Bale did what he could with what was given. How do you have Bale and Crowe and still manage to fuck it up this bad? Taika needs to stay away from Marvel.

This is going under worst movies of this year too. What a waste of time!

WyldeMan wrote:I watched it over the weekend but clearly I enjoyed it more than you did, lol. There are many other MCU movies I liked far less, so I can't agree that this is the worst one. I didn't love it but I found it to be an amusing watch. Waititi, Hemsworth, Bale and Portman all wanted to make a movie with their children, so they did. No Marvel project are really that good at this point, they just make lots of money and slightly move the characters overall arc along.

You still like Russell Crowe? I gave up on him over a decade ago when he gave up on not looking like a sweaty, fat piece of shit in every role way. I couldn't even tell you the last time he made a movie that I was able to finish, so very small doses of Crowe work best. 

Taika has a specific sense of humor that you either enjoy or you don't and as you expressed with Ragnarok, you weren't a fan then either.

WyldeMan wrote:Recently though, Taika said that he's done with Thor and it'll be up to someone new to continue the story after Love and Thunder, so maybe you can whatever you want this franchise to be with someone else but Kenneth Branagh and Alan Taylor made the first two Thor movies super serious and they both flat out sucked IMO. How much is there really left for him to do in future sequels? He should have died at the end of Love and thunder but instead he became a father.

UltimateMarvel wrote:I'd rather watch She-Hulk.

UltimateMarvel wrote:Good riddance Mr. Waititi! I'd rather watch the first 2 than the last 2. I don't think they should make solo Thor movies from now on. He should only make appearances when they team up. In the end it said Thor will return so not sure where he'll pop up again.

Rusty wrote:Finally watched this last night. Not quite as good as Ragnarok, but shit-loads better that the first two fiascos.

Disappointing to read Waititi won't be doing one more to sew up his own trilogy.

Abe is wrong.

UltimateMarvel wrote:I absolutely don't like the extremely comedic version of Thor. The character is inconsistent from Ragnarok to Infinity War to End Game. I think the Russo's do a much better job and they only went with fat Thor because of the success of Ragnarok and that was a mistake in my opinion. Clearly funny doesn't always work judging by the BO numbers for Love and Thunder.

WyldeMan wrote:
I wouldn't praise the Russo's genius too much, we've seen what they create when given enough rope and it's The Gray Man.