After a disappointing episode 4, will Thor be back in a 5th installment within the Marvel Cinematic Universe? During the broadcast of Ragnarok on TMC, we try to answer this question.
Powerfully played by Chris Hemsworth, Thor was a pillar of the Avengers for many years. However, after Endgame, the God of Thunder’s latest adventures, Ragnarok and Love and Thunder, greatly disappointed Marvel fans.
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 a modest $2.7 billion, 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 soeur 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’s even more formidable. We always need more beasts, more monsters, more crazy, eccentric aliens. The fun thing about Thor is “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 space and explores 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.