Skip to main content
  1. Home
  2. Entertainment
  3. News

Thor and Jane reunite in new Thor: Love and Thunder trailer

Blair Marnell
By

Nobody likes messy breakups, especially when you’re an immortal space god. But Thor (Chris Hemsworth) had to part with the love of his life, Jane Foster (Natalie Portman), years before the events of Thor: Ragnarok. However, the duo are finally reunited in the second trailer for Thor: Love and Thunder. The key difference is that Jane has become the Mighty Thor, complete with the powers of Thor himself.

Are you wondering how Jane can wield Thor’s hammer? The answer goes all the way back to the first Thor movie, when Odin placed an enchantment on Mjolnir. The inscription on the hammer spells out the enchantment: “Whosoever holds this hammer, if he be worthy, shall possess the power of Thor.” It turns out that being worthy of the hammer’s power is not gender-specific. Thus, Jane can be the new Thor because she has proven that she has the heart of a hero. But Jane’s new role might make things awkward with her ex-boyfriend.

Marvel Studios' Thor: Love and Thunder | Official Trailer

There is also a more immediate problem for the Thors to deal with beyond their complicated relationship. Gorr the God Butcher (Christian Bale) is carving his way through the universe. And true to his name, Gorr has the means and the will to kill every god in creation, one at a time. Luckily, Thor and Jane have some backup.

Related
The cast of Thor: Love and Thunder.
Image used with permission by copyright holder

Tessa Thompson co-stars as Valkyrie, with Jaimie Alexander as Sif, and Jeff Goldblum as Grandmaster. Almost the entire cast of Guardians of the Galaxy is also reprising their roles, including Chris Pratt as Peter Quill/Star-Lord, Pom Klementieff as Mantis, Dave Bautista as Drax the Destroyer, Karen Gillan as Nebula, Vin Diesel as the voice of Groot, and Bradley Cooper as the voice of Rocket.

A retro style poster for Thor: Love and Thunder.
Image used with permission by copyright holder

Taika Waititi directed the film and co-wrote the script with Jennifer Kaytin Robinson. Marvel Studios will release Thor: Love and Thunder on Friday, July 8.

Editors' Recommendations

Topics
Blair Marnell
Blair Marnell
Blair Marnell has been an entertainment journalist for over 15 years. His bylines have appeared in Wizard Magazine, Geek…
Is Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania the worst MCU movie ever?
Paul Rudd and Jonathan Majors stare at each other in a scene from Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.

Even though it was backed by an aggressive marketing campaign and the allure of watching the big-screen introduction of Kang, there was no escaping a cold, hard reality: Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania stinks! That's according to both the critics, who collectively gave it a rotten score on Rotten Tomatoes, and fans, who slapped the 31st MCU movie with a lowly B grade via Cinemascore (Marvel movies usually get grades in the "A" range, so a B for them is very bad).

But just how awful is the third Ant-Man movie? There aren't a lot of genuinely bad Marvel movies, but after 15 years, it's impossible for any studio to not lay a stinker now and then. Using Rotten Tomatoes as my guide, I rank the worst MCU movies to determine where Quantumania ultimately ended up and answer the question a lot of moviegoers have been asking since the movie premiered: is it the worst MCU movie ever?

Read more
12 movies that should’ve been longer
suicide squad review 001

While many people these days complain about movies being too long, there are still plenty of movies that should've been longer, even the ones now considered masterpieces. If certain films had more time to develop their characters and plotlines, they certainly would've been looked upon much more fondly by audiences.

From superhero epics to horror pictures like Candyman, these films deserved more time to flesh out their characters and develop their plots. Some audiences might not like having to sit still in theaters, but it would've been worth it for these movies to improve in quality.
12. Avengers: Infinity War

Read more
12 new Marvel characters we want to see in the Spider-Man 4 movie
Spider-Man panicking.

After the spectacular success of Spider-Man: No Way Home, audiences are eager to see Tom Holland return as Spider-Man in a fourth solo film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Though such a sequel is already in development, almost nothing is known about what the film is about or who will appear in it.

The possibilities are endless for Spidey's next adventure, so as the world anxiously waits for him to swing back onto the big screen, here is a list of new characters Spider-Man could meet in his fourth film in the MCU.
Hammerhead

Read more