Thor: Love and Thunder
Short description
Thor Odinson has been seeking a quieter existence, but his retreat from heroics ends when a galactic killer known as Gorr begins a campaign against the gods themselves. To confront him, Thor turns to King Valkyrie, the warrior Korg, and his former partner Jane Foster, who now unexpectedly wields his hammer, Mjolnir, as the Mighty Thor. Together they set out across the cosmos to understand what drives Gorr's vengeance and to stop him.
Taika Waititi directed and co-wrote the film with Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, and it followed his earlier Marvel entry, Thor: Ragnarok, among the features he had made in sequence. Chris Hemsworth returns as Thor, with Natalie Portman as Jane Foster, Christian Bale as Gorr, Tessa Thompson as Valkyrie, Russell Crowe as Zeus, and Waititi voicing Korg. The production was large in scale, with a budget of 250 million US dollars, and it took 761 million US dollars worldwide.
Audience scores are modest: on IMDb the film holds 6.1 out of 10 from around 457,000 votes, and on TMDB 6.4 out of 10 from roughly 9,000 votes. A critics' rating of 6.4 out of 10 from 449 reviews places professional assessment broadly in line with audience reaction, neither strongly favourable nor dismissive.
What's left behind the scenes
- Thor believes that goats are for eating. In Norse mythology, Thor repeatedly slaughtered goats for meat, which he ate, and then resurrected the goats.
- The idea to have Zeus speak with a Greek accent came from Russell Crowe, the actor playing Zeus. Director Taika Waititi wanted Zeus to speak with a British accent, so he asked the actor to deliver all his lines twice – once with a Greek accent and once with a British accent. Only then did Waititi realize that Crowe was right and that the character needed a Greek accent.
- During the battle for the city, it becomes clear that the city guards have not crimson blood in their veins, but something golden in color. According to ancient Greek mythology, the veins of the gods contain not blood, but ichor.
- The God of Korg sits on a throne of scissors because scissors lose to rock in the game "rock-paper-scissors".
- Chris Hemsworth bulked up so much for the role in this film that his weight reached 105 kilograms (more than for any other role in his repertoire). Because of this muscle mass, he had to eat 8 times a day throughout the entire shoot just to maintain it.
- Natalie Portman is 1.60 m tall, while Chris Hemsworth is 1.91 m tall. During filming, she had to stand next to her co-star on a platform raised above the ground.
- Christian Bale, who had previously worked with Christopher Nolan on the sci-fi action film "The Dark Knight Rises" (2012), initially refused to appear in this film or any other superhero project, believing that acting in the genre would not offer him anything new in terms of acting skill. The actor changed his mind after being deeply impressed by director and screenwriter Taika Waititi, as well as the script itself.
- The film features Thor's goats, named Tangrisnir and Tangniost. These characters appear in both the legends of Thor and the comics. Their constant screaming is a reference to a popular internet video featuring a screaming goat.
- On the chest of Thor's garment is an image of something resembling a tree. This is the world tree Yggdrasil, a gigantic ash tree that the Scandinavians envisioned as the universe.
- Christian Bale almost left the project due to scheduling issues. He usually prefers longer breaks between shoots, but this time he only had three days between finishing filming on another project (in Los Angeles) and the start of mandatory quarantine in Australia due to COVID restrictions. The actor was persuaded to work with Waititi by his own children.
Auditions in India
Casting calls in USA
Castingi w Polsce
Кастинги в Україні
