V For Vendetta star Natalie Portman has been announced as the female lead for the upcoming Thor movie, which will be directed by heavyweight thespian-director Kenneth Branagh. Portman will play Jane Foster, a character who featured heavily in earlier Thor comics as the nurse assistant to Thor’s alter-ego Doctor Donald Blake and was more recently seen, albeit briefly, in Civil War. “(Jane) is the human lead, so to speak, who helps ground the film in reality. We spend a lot of time amongst the other realms of the Nine Worlds of the Thor mythology and our human anchor to that,” explained Marvel’s Kevin Feige. Portman joins Tom Hiddleston as Loki and Chris Hemsworth as the mighty Thor; filming is due to commence early next year with a release date planned for May 2011. (via Hollywood Reporter)
(Nat Portman being delectable)
In other superhero movie news it was announced over the weekend that Ryan Reynolds, currently in cinemas with the Sandra Bullock comedy The Proposal, has been chosen to play the Green Lantern in the big screen outing for the emerald-clad hero. As the BBC article points out this means that Reynolds will have played two major comics characters from the two biggest publishers, GL for DC and his recent take on the Deadpool in X-Men Origins, which, as we blogged recently, is generating its own spin-off flick featuring the Merc With a Mouth.
(Ryan ‘Mr Scarlett Johansson’ Reynolds also being delectable but dangerous as Deadpool)
Tue, Jul 14, 2009
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