Tag archive: Thor

Ok my fellow geeks, time to roll up your sleeves and begin the scrutiny that only the internets can bring to bear. Below is the new trailer for Marvel’s The Avengers. Please watch it, then head on back to the next paragraph. Ok, by now you have probably watched it a few times, and there are questions that will plague fans until they know the answers. The first and foremost: Who are the villains? Loki, obviously, but he is almost certainly not… Read More

Here are some of the hottest, most buzzed-about books this week. Download them on your Kindle, read them on your iPad, or go to a bookstore if you like to keep things old-school.  Here Comes Trouble: Stories from My Life by Michael Moore From the political provocateur extraordinaire comes a book that really has nothing to do with politics at all. Eschewing the typical personal memoir format, Michael Moore gives readers 24 distinct glimpses into… Read More

Thank you Cleveland! Thanks to some onlookers we have some great video from the Avengers movie set. We saw a video yesterday from the set, but today’s video features two of the Avengers. Both Captain America and Thor are taped in a fight scene against some unknown bad guys. To avoid providing any spoilers we won’t go into detail about the video posted, but if you are worried about spoilers in any way this might not be the story for you. We don’t… Read More

Marvel continues to push forward with its unwritten agenda of bringing every single character in the Marvel universe to the big screen. All of the heavy hitters have been spoken for, and due to legal shenanigans, some of the biggest properties like X-Men, Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four are out of reach of Marvel Studios for the time being, but they too will all soon return to the big screen. But there are still plenty of Marvel characters… Read More

The Mass Effect movie was first announced over a year ago, and not much has changed since then, but during a movie panel at Comic-Con some more details about the movie have been unearthed. The movie is still in the very early planning stages, and it will be a long time before much of anything concrete is announced. At this point the only names attached to the movie are Casey Hudson, and Mark Protosevich. Hudson is the creator of the game,… Read More

There is a very good and obvious reason that video game adaptions of current movies don’t work. A typical video game development cycle is typically at least two or three years, and can sometimes be much longer. The biggest Hollywood movies generally have a development cycle of around a year and a half at most (there are some films that take longer to develop, but they are the exception). So when a video game is commissioned from a movie, the… Read More

Although I grew up as a comic book kid, I could never get behind Thor. Like Superman, the character of Thor is more of an archetype than someone you can relate to. It’s hard to picture hanging out with (or even being) a god, so Thor has always been a character that needs a good story around him, otherwise the books and movies that feature him can turn out painfully bad. Translating that to a film is a risky proposition. You are essentially… Read More

The summer of superheroes is upon us, as Marvel Entertainment unleashes Thor followed by X-Men: First Class, and Captain America: The First Avenger. DC Entertainment has Green Lantern and his powerful ring ready for action. And Conan the Barbarian rides off the comic book pages in August. For gamers, there are interactive versions of most of these films coming in tandem with the movie experiences.

Up to this point, although there have been plenty of clips and stills of the upcoming film Thor, there really hasn’t been much of a look at what the film will be like. Sure you have a guy with a hammer, Natalie Portman looks hot and Anthony Hopkins gets mad and grounds Thor to Earth, but beyond small hints and ideas, it hasn’t been all that easy to get a feel for the upcoming Marvel Studios film. In the trailer released earlier today, the film… Read More

If you haven’t heard of the upcoming film Thor, just give it time, Marvel Studios will find you and make sure you know everything you need in order to prepare for one of this summer’s first blockbusters. Thor is an important film for Marvel, in more ways than one. Besides the hefty $150 million price tag that the studio needs to recoup in order to put that money towards future projects, Thor is also the first Marvel film that will act… Read More

Despite the fact that it is a year and a half away, Joss Whedon’s The Avengers is already under intense scrutiny from both fans and the media alike. Any time one of the stars of the film is seen speaking with another actor, or a producer, or perhaps a Starbucks employee, the rumor mill goes absolutely berserk and stories begin to fly. For the record, the Wasp has not not officially been listed in the film, neither has Hank Pym, but that hasn’t… Read More

When it comes to a multibillion dollar franchise, it is never too early to begin alienating people. Although Iron Man 3 is still at least three years away, and although there are still three major Marvel movies to premier before Iron Man 3 can even begin scripting, Marvel and director Jon Favreau have apparently split ways, according to the website Vulture. The report further claims that Marvel has already begun to seek a replacement. There… Read More

It is more or less inevitable these days–if you make a movie that has some form of superhero angle, a video game adaptation will soon follow. It doesn’t even have to be a comic book superhero, just any hero that does extraordinary things (Tron: Legacy and Harry Potter for example). Thor: God of Thunder is the most recent example of that trend, but certainly not the last. In fact, a Captain America game should be released about a month… Read More

The next Avenger to make it to the big screen will be Thor, and the first official trailer for the soon to be blockbuster has debuted. Earlier this year, a lengthier trailer was leaked following Comic-Con, but this is the first authorized clip of the upcoming film. Thor stars Chris Hemsworth (Star Trek, the upcoming Red Dawn) and Natalie Portman, and it pits the thunder god against his adopted brother Loki. The movie will join the Iron Man… Read More

Also check out the new Thor Trailer that aired during the Super Bowl. The first trailer for 'Thor' was revealed at Comic-Con and has since spread across the web. Marvel’s film will star Chris Hemsworth as Thor along with a stellar supporting cast of Anthony Hopkins, Natalie Portman, Stellan Skarsgård, Idris Elba and Rene Russo. The film will be directed by Kenneth Branagh and is set to release in the US on May 6 of next year.