From AICN, Anyway - I sat down and dove into the script. This isn't a Donald Blake, doctor on vacation story. Instead, this is a genuine TALES OF ASGARD story. In the first few pages the creation of everything takes place... the origin of the gods, their universe and how midgard (that's are place in the universe) came to be.
It has Thor and Loki as brothers - the best of friends... and it shows how that goes bad. The origin of the uru hammer, Thor being thrown from Asgard to being a mere mortal... it's a HUGE story - easily the most awesome script that a MARVEL project has ever had.
About 3 weeks ago, I heard they were talking to Matthew Vaughn... I'm a huge fan of Matthew's STARDUST. However, I'm sure Matthew knows this... but the tone of STARDUST and this THOR script are very very different. There can be no tongue in cheek, no broad comedy... this is an intense story or deception, quests and battles amongst gods. Protosevich channeled all the best from Kirby's universe and I hope to Odin that they take their visual cue from his work.
This has the chance to literally kick everything we have coming up's ass.
It's an epic step forward in ambition for Matthew Vaughn - I know MARVEL loves this script - I just hope they allow this project to live up to its potential. Now they have the hardest task of all... finding Thor. Me - there's a half crazed part of me that wants Ernest Borgnine to play ODIN - ala his Ragnar from THE VIKINGS. But that's probably just me.
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It's always puzzled me that of all the various belief systems it's the Norse legends that actually have a flesh-and-blood representative in the Marvel universe. Does that mean that Aphrodite or Ganesh could show up too, or does it mean that the Norse myths are the official cosmology of Marvel? (I'm sure the answer has been worked out, I just don't know it.)
Say what you like about Neil Gaiman, but during his run on Sandman he did an excellent job of pulling all that stuff together. The DC universe's celestial underpinnings are much better. IMHO.
Hey it's better than Super-Jesus.
That picture is really funny. Thor looks disgusted and ashamed that he's stuck in a package and has a girlie haircut.
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