Thor Jane Foster.../Thor 4
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Ok so announcement of Thor Love & Thunder with Natalie Portman being goddess of Thunder makes me think should current jane foster be buffed or we get a new Portman like thor character when the movie comes out
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@Tranos0617
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It is important to remember the backstory to all of this. When Thor 2 was being filmed Marvel Studios was still a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment and under the control of Marvel itself. And Marvel's relationship with its movie production was to put it mildly adversarial. Marvel was known to negotiate hardball with actor salaries and very controlling with directors. In particular, Kenneth Branagh (the director of the first Thor) dropped out of directing Thor 2 because the studio pressured him into delivering the sequel too quickly, and his replacement Patty Jenkins (who went on to direct Wonder Woman) dropped out after "creative differences" with the studio. The rumors at the time were that Marvel was pressuring her to go in a more action-oriented direction at the expense of the relationship-driven movie she was originally told she would be allowed to make, and wanted her to start preproduction on those set pieces before the script was even completed. Natalie Portman was said to be upset over the way Jenkins was dismissed from Thor 2, as well as her more passive role in the film, which caused her to pass moving forward.
Today things are way different. Kevin Feige has essentially 100% control over Marvel Studios: in fact Marvel Studios is organizationally speaking completely outside the control of Marvel Entertainment. The MCU actors now work for Disney more than they work for Marvel, in that no Marvel Entertainment exec has any real say over the projects. Kevin Feige seems to have a much better relationship with the talent at Marvel Studios, and has the clout at Disney to take calculated risks with giving the talent some freedom to work within the MCU's constraints.
I think it is a huge oversimplification to say that Portman only came back because she was going to be Thor. And people saying they are "replacing" Hemsworth with Portman are crazy: Hemsworth is still extremely popular and I doubt Portman wants to be playing Thor for a dozen movies. I think Kevin Feige lured her back with the simple promise that they had something interesting for her to do other than be someone's girlfriend, and it was interesting enough for her to come back to do it.
And it’s a far cry to say that Portman was the reason for lackluster Prequils of StarWars. (Can you say Jar Jar, as well as who they settled on for Skywalker after it was deemed that DiCaprio would have been too short to play the eventual Vader). And Portman has had some other good performances (Black Swan, etc).
As far as the game goes, perhaps we do get lucky this time to get a rework on Thor-JF. Perhaps.
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No one is replacing Hemsworth, and this comic con announcement didn't say a word about that. They've always taken bits and pieces of the storylines from the comics. In the Jane Foster Thor comics, he loses the hammer because hes unworthy - but they already did that in the movies. Why do the dudes losing their minds on here about this already think they're just gonna kick Hemsworth to the wind and replace him? And why do they not think the director and creative team won't do the same new reinvigoration on Jane/Portman they did with Thor? She wouldn't have come back unless the pitch was something way different than she was doing before. There's a ton of potential for this movie and the cosmic part of the MCU, but it seems all the people on here want to concentrate on is "reeeeeeee they're replacing my bro with a girl I hate it" - which says more about your reaction, what you took from the announcement and how threatening it is to you that you're already crying about it on a gaming forum.
I have complete trust and faith in Kevin Feige and Taika to make this something different, fun, interesting and to open up even more plotlines for all the characters going forward. They killed it so far, they're not suddenly gonna throw that away