After a disappointing opus number 4, will Thor return in a 5th part at the heart of the Marvel Cinematic Universe? We try to answer this thorny question!
Played by Chris Hemsworth, Thor was a pillar of the Avengers for many years. However, after Endgame, the latest adventures of the God of Thunder, Ragnarok and Love and Thunder, greatly disappointed Marvel fans. The latter judged that these sequels (especially the 4th) were not up to the standard of this iconic superhero.
Furthermore, after Tyler Rake 2, Chris Hemsworth wants to return to Marvel but differently.
Even if these two films had enormous commercial success with 853 million greenbacks collected for one and 760 million for the other, this did not prevent the public from expressing a certain weariness with the direction taken. by the story of Thor.
Success and disappointment
In total, the 4 parts of the franchise brought in the modest sum of 2.7 billion dollars. Enough to make Marvel Studios not want to abandon this goose that lays the golden eggs. After Kenneth Branagh and Alan Taylor for the first two episodes, it was Taika Waititi who took up the torch for Ragnarok and Love and Thunder.
Last August, on the occasion of the promotion of the book Marvel’s Thor 4: Love and Thunder Movie Special Bookthe filmmaker provided some clues about a possible Thor 5.
“What is left to do with this superhero? It has to be a story that continues the evolution of the character, but still in a way that is very fun and allows him to face obstacles that he will have to overcome. I don’t think you can have a weaker villain than Hela [la sœur de Thor et Loki dans Ragnarok]“, he indicated.
I feel like we need to take it up a notch and introduce a villain that would be even more formidable.
Take it up a notch
“I feel like we need to take it up a notch and introduce a villain that would be even more formidable. We always need more beasts, more monsters, more crazy, eccentric aliens.
What’s funny about Thor is that he has a certain casualness, an arrogance, when he visits worlds and meets extra-terrestrials, I don’t think you can have that with an earthling who travels in the world. ‘space and explore the universe’he continued, visibly motivated to stage a 5th episode of the adventures of this iconic superhero.
Chris doesn’t have Thor
If the New Zealand director would not be against re-doing it for a new film, what does the main interested party, Chris Hemsworth, think?
“I don’t want to keep doing it until the audience gets tired and rolls their eyes when they see me come on screen as this character.”, he confided to Entertainment Weekly. However, he added that he would do everything possible to reinvent the God of Thunder if a new adventure were to be launched.
“If the audience wants to see it and if there’s something we think is exciting and fun, then great. I don’t have the answer yet, but I’d like to.”he concluded.
In the meantime, the next opus of the MCU, The Marvels, will be released in France on November 8.