Who's the idiot casting the "Thor" movie?

[Archae]

Exsqueeze me, but Norse gods were SCANDINAVIAN, asshole!

This guy may be a good actor, but he's not Heimdall!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0252961/

[baldguy]

1. The same people that cast Keanu Reeves as John Constantine.

And John Wayne as Genghis Khan.


Hollywood.

[rurallib]

4. Edward G. Robinson as the Pharoah in 'Ten Commandments'

Gotta be one of the all time best miscasts.

[nickinSTL]

5. Edward G Robinson wasn't Pharaoh

Yul Brynner was (unless you mean Seti, who was played by John Gielgud).

Robinson was the Hebrew overseer, Dathan.

I didn't have a problem with his role in it :shrug:

[Orrex]

7. Robinson was terrible cast as Brynner.

[sarge43]

11. Seti was played by Cedric Hardwick, standard casting.

Agree on Robinson, good fit.

[nickinSTL]

12. ah. right. sorry.

Don't know what I was thinking.

[sarge43]

15. A lot of these roles and actors are interchangeable

A memory for totally useless trivia is necessary to keep track.

I've watched TTC many times just for that scene when Baxter heaves her nostrils, flairs her bosom and emotes, "Oh Moses, Moses, you stubborn, splendid, adorable fool!" You can almost hear De Mile, "The cheese, Ann. Bring the cheese." Then, there's Chuck 'Stone Face' Heston, "Once I did Shakespeare, Mark Anthony. Had curtain calls."

What's not to remember with fondness.

[Orrex]

16. But did he find any extraterrestrial intelligence?

[sarge43]

18. He did, called down The Big Guy's Wrath on 'em and broke BG's office memo.

Galactic diplomacy hasn't been the same since, let me tell ya.

[Mojambo]

2. This movie looks like a disaster in the making.

The only question now is whether it'll be worse than Daredevil.

[Orrex]

8. If it's only 10% as good as Daredevil, it'll still be 100X better than Elektra

I like Jennifer Garner just fine, but she was just about the worst possible choice for the role.

[nickinSTL]

3. bah. the whole Thor comic is a mess

Thor has bright red hair and a red beard, he's not blond.

And from what I understand, that's hardly the end of what they got wrong.

I've never read Thor, but being a Heathen, I'm less than impressed by what I know.

One more reason for me to not see the movie.

[Dr Morbius]

21. The Mighty Thor has a long history as a comic book.

I collected a few, many years ago, and the issues I have are in the 400s. This dates the comic back to the 60's. Thor underwent many changes because it wasn't a top line comic, like FF or Spidey, which almost always sold out. So different artists and writers got assigned to God of Thunder over the years, and he's ranged from redhead to blond to bearded, and from square-jawed handsome to weathered and stern. Meanwhile he started as a doctor and then was recast by Odin as a construction worker in a child custody battle. While saving the world and Asgard and occasionally, the universe.

I bring all this up to point out that there's a rich history with a great variety of storylines for Thor, because as a "God" his character can face challenges on different levels than a Spiderman or a Superman, and because the comic book production staff changed so often. The upcoming Thor flick might be awful. But it might be awesome, too.

I've always imagined a movie about Thor containing some seriously heavy metal on the soundtrack. Anything less than real metal would not do, save perhaps Zeppelin, and they were kind of founders when it came to metal anyway. Claps of thunder reverberating through the theater; this is no mere mortal smiting whoever was foolish enough to earn his ire. But I rather suspect the movie will be much more trite, and Thor will appear a bit more noble than he should.

[Orrex]

6. I can't even pith.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

9. Guys who would look like Thor aren't usually very good actors

Which is why the whole movie will suck.

[MajorChode]

10. My guess is the movie will be more closely based on the comic book

So it's probably not that far out of line considering the Norse Gods were "reborn" in the comic.

[CBGLuthier]

13. The same idiots who thought Will Smith should play James West

Or, on the flip-side, the idiots who think blue-eyed, blond, fair-skinned Gerard Depardiue, should play half Creole/black Alexandre Dumas.

However, I just watched Omar Sharif in white face playing a German WWII general and he was pretty good.

[Fire Walk With Me]

17. It is possible that Omar Sharif can do no wrong.

If only more current actors were at the same level.

[Bucky]

14. The Thor they're basing the movie on is not Scandinavian. He's 100% Shlock-American

If you make an American movie about American characters for an American audience, there's no reason not to expect an American level of racial diversity in the casting just because the source material behind the source material was from some less than American locale. Why, just look at the Tarzan movies.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

19. I know, right?

How many alien invasion movies use humans cast as martians!

Buncha planetists!

[driver8]

20. Ha Ha -- Wikipedia calls Heimdall, "The whitest of the Gods"...oops! n/t