After Hulk, Spidey, The Fantastic Four, Blade and X-Men, you might think Marvel would be running out of superheroes fit for the big screen. Well, you’d be wrong, since they’re apparently gearing up to make a film about Thor as well.
“Isn’t he more mythology than superhero?” we hear you cry. Well, yes he is, but he’s also a long-running and popular Marvel character, based on the legendary thunder deity. The story goes that Thor was sent by head god Odin to Earth to learn some humility by living as a mortal without his divine powers. As Dr Donald Blake, he lived a quiet and blameless life on Earth without any memory of who he really was, until he discovered that he could transform himself into Thor and that the cane he used for a slight limp could become the magical hammer Mjolnir (just don’t ask us to pronounce that). Ever since, he’s been living a double life as a blonde, bearded superhero and occasional member of The Avengers superhero group, subject to occasional attacks by his step-brother Loki, god of Mischief.
According to J. Michael Straczynski, who let the information slip at Charlotte’s Heroes Convention 2006, David Goyer, of Blade and **Batman Begins **fame and Blade: Trinity infamy, is set to write a treatment. It’s not known as yet whether that means he’s rewriting the script that Mark “Poseidon” Protosevich’s has already written, or starting from scratch, but it does mean that Marvel is looking increasingly serious about getting their most deific character up on screen.
For more from Heroes Convention 2006, check out the link above.