‘Thor: Ragnarok’ Lands A New Writer
Despite its title,Thor: The Dark Worldwas far from a dark movie. BothThormovies have plenty of humor, arguably almost too much at times. Byhiringwriter-directorTaika Waititi(What We Do in the Shadows), Marvel seems to be indicating it wants the next film in this series,Thor: Ragnarok, to maintain (or have more of) the sense of humor we saw in the first two movies. Of all the Marvel movies, theThorfilms have been the lesser entries in the MCU, but with Waititi directing, that may not be the case forThor: Ragnarok.
Before the film goes into principal next year, a newThor 3writer has been brought in to rewrite the script. Learn more about the Marvel sequel and its new writer after the jump.
Christopher Yost(Thor: The Dark World) andCraig Kyle(Iron Man: Armored Adventures) previously worked on the script forThor: Ragnarok, but according toThe Hollywood Reporter,Stephany Folsomwill conduct rewrites on the project. Folsom has few produced credits, but she did write1969: A Space Odyssey of How Kubrick Learned to Stop Worrying and Land on the Moon— a script I’ve always heard nothing but positive things about.
She’ll be tacking the “buddy movie,” which is howMark RuffalodescribesThor: Ragnarok, who will co-star alongsideChris Hemsworthin the sequel. Adding Ruffalo and a fresh voice like Waititi to the mix might give this series the boost it needs.
Hemsworth has expressed his desire to takeThorin a new direction. The jokes in these films have been fairly broad, and rightly so, Hemsworthwouldn’t mindifThor 3has a more clever sense of humor:
I think [Thor: Ragnarok] needs to be injected with that sort of smart wit and unexpected kind of humor, kind of what James Gunn came in and did with Guardians [of the Galaxy]. It was like off center and unpredictable, and I think we can definitely use a dose of that, you know? I feel we had less of the sort of the naivety or fun or humor that the first [Thor] might have had. I wish we had more of that in the second [movie]. … We’ve done regal. We’ve done Shakespeare, and we’ve shown that. I think now it’s time to go, ‘Okay, cool. Let’s try something different,’ and Taika just had such a brilliant sort of take and funny kind of ideas about where we could [go], how we could do that.
