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"Thor 2" : Jaimie Alexander Coming Back As 'Sif'
26 May 2012 8:35 AM, PDT | SneakPeek | See recent SneakPeek news »
Actress Jaimie Alexander, who played Norse warrior goddess 'Sif' in the 2011 feature "Thor", will return as Sif for "Thor 2", in a 3D comic book adaptation that intends to have a more 'Viking' influence than the first film.
'Sif' is the character appearing in comic books published by Marvel Comics, based on the mythological Norse goddess of the same name, debuting in Marvel's "Journey Into Mystery" #102 (1964), as an 'Asgardian' warrior and lover of 'Thor', who spends much of her time worrying about him and accompanying him into battle.
Alexander confirmed that she will return as the character for director Alan Taylor ("Game of Thrones") looking to have Sif's romance with Thor rekindled.
"Thor 2" is being produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures, as the eighth installment in the 'Marvel Cinematic Universe'.
Screenplay is by Don Payne and Robert Rodat, with Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, »
- Michael Stevens
Casino Royale Baddie to Join the Cast of Thor 2
25 May 2012 6:00 AM, PDT | ScifiMafia | See recent ScifiMafia news »
Last week, we brought you Chris Hemsworth’s thoughts on the sibling rivalry between his character, Thor, and his adopted little brother Loki (Tom Hiddleston) and how this dynamic continues to evolve into Thor 2. Now, it looks like Loki will be getting some company to antagonize Thor in this sequel.
Variety reports that Walt Disney Pictures and Marvel Studios is negotiating with Mads Mikkelsen (The Hunt, Casino Royale) to star as “one of the villains” in the Alan Taylor (Game of Thrones) helmed sequel with script by Don Payne (Thor, Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer) and Robert Rodat (Falling Skies, Saving Private Ryan.)
Thor 2 will begin production late this summer and is slated to hit theaters on November 15th, 2013. »
- Lillian 'zenbitch' Standefer
Thor 2 Signs Mads Mikkelsen to Play Villainous Role Alongside Tom Hiddleston
25 May 2012 | The Daily BLAM! | See recent The Daily BLAM! news »
The Casino Royale and Three Musketeers star is the latest addition to the cast of the sequel to the popular 2011 comic book based film starring Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman and Tom Hiddleston. Alan Taylor, known for his acclaimed work directing popular HBO series Game of Thrones, Boardwalk Empire, The Sopranos, Sex and the City, and Six Feet Under, is on board to direct Thor 2 which is currently scheduled for theatrical release November 15, 2013. Saving Private Ryan and The Patriot screenwriter Robert Rodat was recently hired to perform a rewrite of Don Payne's shooting script. Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Tom Hiddleston, Jaimie Alexander, Josh Dallas and Ray Stevenson are among the returning cast from the first film. The newest addition to the cast is Mads Mikkelsen, who »
- Pietro Filipponi
Thor 2 Villain to be Played by Mads Mikkelsen?
24 May 2012 4:30 PM, PDT | GeekTyrant | See recent GeekTyrant news »
Marvel is gearing up to get Thor 2 into production, and they are currently in talks with Mads Mikkelsen (Casino Royale, Valhalla Rising) to take on the role of a villain in the story. There's no word on what villain he'll play, but it's in addition to Tom Hiddleston's Loki who will obviously have a big part in making Thor's life a living hell. Mikkelson will fit right into this world, and I think he'll make a great villain.
If cast he'll join most of the cast from the original Thor film including Chris Hemsworth, Anthony Hopkins and Natalie Portman. The sequel is being directed by Alan Taylor who worked on Game of Thrones, and from what we've heard he'll be bringing that setting and style to the world of Asgard, which will be cool to see.
The script was written by Don Payne, who co-wrote the first draft of the first movie, »
- Venkman
Mads Mikkelsen in talks for Thor 2 as villain
24 May 2012 11:00 AM, PDT | Upcoming-Movies.com | See recent Upcoming-Movies.com news »
With Avengers still rocking the box office, there's talk of Marvel's Thor 2 snagging Mads Mikkelsen in a part as a villain. Variety reports that there's no info as yet as to whom he'll be playing, but Tom Hiddleston is reprising his role as Loki, now seen in the first Thor and current box office big boy Avengers. The film's scheduled to open November 15th, 2013, with Chris Hemsworth and most of the original cast on board the Alan Taylor-directed fantasy adventure scripted by Don Payne and more recently polished by Robert Rodat. Marvel and Disney had no comment on the casting. »
Mads Mikkelson in talks for Thor 2 as villain!
24 May 2012 11:00 AM, PDT | Upcoming-Movies.com | See recent Upcoming-Movies.com news »
With Avengers still rocking the box office, there's talk of Marvel's Thor 2 snagging Mads Mikkelsen in a part as a villain. Variety reports that there's no info as yet as to whom he'll be playing, but Tom Hiddleston is reprising his role as Loki, now seen in the first Thor and current box office big boy Avengers. The film's scheduled to open November 15th, 2013, with Chris Hemsworth and most of the original cast on board the Alan Taylor-directed fantasy adventure scripted by Don Payne and more recently polished by Robert Rodat. Marvel and Disney had no comment on the casting. »
Thor 2 Looks to Mads Mikkelsen for Villain Role
24 May 2012 | Comingsoon.net | See recent Comingsoon.net news »
Mads Mikkelsen looks like he may be taking a trip to the Marvel Universe. Variety reports that the Casino Royale star is in talks to play a still-unspecified villain in Thor 2 . The film will mark the third big screen appearance of Chris Hemsworth's Thor and Tom Hiddleston's Loki following 2011's Thor and this year's Marvel's The Avengers . Natalie Portman, Jaimie Alexander and Idris Elba have been confirmed to be returning for the Alan Taylor-directed sequel as well, though even more of the first film's cast likely to be back as well. Mikkelsen is no stranger to Norse legend nor to tales of gods and men, having appeared in Nicolas Winding Refn's Valhalla Rising and the 2010 remake of Clash of the Titans . Featuring a screenplay by Robert Rodat and Don Payne, Thor »
"Falling Skies": Get Off My Planet
23 May 2012 8:40 PM, PDT | SneakPeek | See recent SneakPeek news »
Sneak Peek more new key art supporting the second season premiere of the British Columbia-lensed "Falling Skies", airing June 17, 2012.
"Falling Skies' debuted June 2011, with 8 million total viewers, ranking it as cable's top series launch in 2011, averaging 6.4 million total viewers in its first three episodes.
"Falling Skies" opens in the chaotic aftermath of an alien attack that has left most of the world completely incapacitated. Few survivors have banded together to begin the difficult task of fighting back.
In other "Falling Skies" news, Dark Horse Comics launched a graphic novel series, July 13, 2011, written by Paul Tobin, with illustrations and cover by Juan Ferreyra/Andrew Dalhouse :
"...In the heart of Boston, following the devastating events of an alien invasion, history professor 'Tom Mason' and his sons 'Hal', 'Matt' and 'Ben' are just trying to survive. After an extreme firefight with the aliens, Ben gets kidnapped. Determined to get his son back, »
- Michael Stevens
"Falling Skies": Hold Your Ground- June 17, 2012
13 May 2012 8:32 PM, PDT | SneakPeek | See recent SneakPeek news »
Sneak Peek new key art promoting the second season premiere of the British Columbia-lensed "Falling Skies", airing June 17, 2012.
"Falling Skies' debuted June 2011, with 8 million total viewers, ranking it as cable's top series launch in 2011, averaging 6.4 million total viewers in its first three episodes.
"Falling Skies" opens in the chaotic aftermath of an alien attack that has left most of the world completely incapacitated. Few survivors have banded together to begin the difficult task of fighting back.
In other "Falling Skies" news, Dark Horse Comics launched a graphic novel series, July 13, 2011, written by Paul Tobin, with illustrations and cover by Juan Ferreyra/Andrew Dalhouse :
"...In the heart of Boston, following the devastating events of an alien invasion, history professor 'Tom Mason' and his sons 'Hal', 'Matt' and 'Ben' are just trying to survive. After an extreme firefight with the aliens, Ben gets kidnapped. Determined to get his son back, »
- Michael Stevens
New Falling Skies Webcomic Fills in the Blanks Between Season 1 and Season 2
18 April 2012 5:00 AM, PDT | ScifiMafia | See recent ScifiMafia news »
The Falling Skies Season 2 premiere doesn’t air until June, but that doesn’t mean that we will have no new Falling Skies content between now and then: TNT has announced that it has partnered with Dark Horse Digital for a second Falling Skies digital comic series.
The first series, out last year before Season 1 premiered, was a prequel; this time the series will fill in the blanks between what occurs with (and to) the Second Mass in the three months between the Season 1 finale and the Season 2 premiere. Falling Skies: The Battle of Fitchburg will be available for free download starting today, with subsequent issues available every other week. Here’s the press release:
Falling Skies: Dark Horse Digital And TNT Partner For Season Two Falling Skies Comic
April 13, 2012
TNT and Dark Horse Comics have partnered again for the Falling Skies season two digital comic. The comic »
- Erin Willard
Watch: 3 Minutes Of 'Falling Skies' Season 2
3 April 2012 2:25 PM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
"Falling Skies" Season 2 won't premiere on TNT until Sun., June 17 at 9 p.m. Et, but you don't have to wait any longer for your first sneak peek. In the new Season 2 preview, which was originally screened at Emerald City Comiccon, viewers pick up with Tom (Noah Wyle) walking aboard the alien ship, willingly.
What happens next? Fast forward three months later and the rebel faction is still going strong. We don't want to give too much away, but watch the video below for more.
Created by Robert Rodat and executive produced by Steven Spielberg, "Falling Skies" stars Wyle and Moon Bloodgood as members of a human rebel force battling alien invaders. The first season of "Falling Skies" closed to an audience of 5.5 million viewers and 5.9 million viewers tuned in for the premiere, which is not a bad retention rate at all.
Click here for more TNT premiere dates. »
- Chris Harnick
Watch: 3 Minutes Of 'Falling Skies' Season 2
3 April 2012 2:25 PM, PDT | Aol TV. | See recent Aol TV. news »
"Falling Skies" Season 2 won't premiere on TNT until Sun., June 17 at 9 p.m. Et, but you don't have to wait any longer for your first sneak peek. In the new Season 2 preview, which was originally screened at Emerald City Comiccon, viewers pick up with Tom (Noah Wyle) walking aboard the alien ship, willingly.
What happens next? Fast forward three months later and the rebel faction is still going strong. We don't want to give too much away, but watch the video below for more.
Created by Robert Rodat and executive produced by Steven Spielberg, "Falling Skies" stars Wyle and Moon Bloodgood as members of a human rebel force battling alien invaders. The first season of "Falling Skies" closed to an audience of 5.5 million viewers and 5.9 million viewers tuned in for the premiere, which is not a bad retention rate at all.
Click here for more TNT premiere dates.
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- Chris Harnick
The Horror! The Horror! Must-See War Films
1 March 2012 2:56 PM, PST | Moviefone | See recent Moviefone news »
You can't show war as it really is on the screen, with all the blood and gore. Perhaps it would be better if you could fire real shots over the audience's head every night, you know, and have actual casualties in the theater. -- Sam Fuller, film director and author
War is a grisly business, a horror of epic proportions. In terms of human carnage alone, war's devastation is staggering. For example, it is estimated that approximately 231 million people died worldwide during the wars of the 20th century. However, this figure does not take into account the walking wounded -- both physically and psychologically -- who "survive" war. Eventually, war will be our undoing. As Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent and author Chris Hedges observes: War is like a poison. And just as a cancer patient must at times ingest a poison to fight off a disease, so there are times »
- John W. Whitehead
Falling Skies: The Complete First Season Lands June 5th
28 February 2012 12:32 AM, PST | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
Falling Skies - TNT's epic alien-invasion saga from DreamWorks Television, TNT Productions and executive producer Steven Spielberg - will make its Blu-ray and DVD debut on June 5. Noah Wyle (ER) stars in the powerful drama, which finished its first season as basic cable's #1 new series of 2011. Falling Skies: The Complete First Season will include numerous special features, including a sneak peek at the eagerly anticipated second season, slated to launch on TNT this June.
Falling Skies chronicles the chaotic aftermath of an alien attack that leaves most of the world completely incapacitated. In the six months since the initial invasion, survivors band together to begin the difficult task of fighting back against the aggressive aliens. Outside of Boston, history professor Tom Mason (Wyle) helps lead a small army named 2nd Massachusetts in the battle of their lives to preserve their families and what's left of humanity.
The three-disc Falling Skies »
- MovieWeb
Falling Skies Season 2 Gets Lost
6 February 2012 2:34 PM, PST | Boomtron | See recent Boomtron news »
Attention Terry O’Quinn fans, your favorite mystery man is moving on from his work on Lost, with his sights now set on the science fiction drama series, Falling Skies. Let’s hope that the smoke monsters don’t follow him to the set.
TNT is responsible for Falling Skies, which already has a pretty large fan base. It boasts 6.9 million viewers, in fact. Might O’Quinn bring some Lost fans over to the newer series as well? We’ll find out when the series launches into season two this summer.
The John Locke actor has been cast, according to EW, to play a former history professor and the mentor of Noah Wyle’s character, Tom Mason. O’Quinn will appear in a two-episode arc, which will also serve as a season ender. Wow. Season two hasn’t even begun and we’re already talking about it’s end. I »
- Sasha Nova
Kenneth Branagh praises Chris Hemsworth as Thor, admits the actor is "very stimulating"
24 January 2012 2:58 PM, PST | The Geek Files | See recent The Geek Files news »
Kenneth Branagh has praised the looks and acting skills of Chris Hemsworth, who starred in his Thor movie, and admitted he'd never dreamed he would direct a Hollywood blockbuster.
The 2011 film was based on Marvel's superhero version of the Norse thunder god and Branagh said he had long been a fan of the comic book.
Speaking on The Graham Norton Show, the filmmaker said that when he was a young actor, he'd never imagined he would end up being involved in such a big-budget box office smash.
He said: "I certainly used to read that comic when I was a kid so I knew that was always true about my feeling for it, but I think that for me - a working-class lad from Belfast - just to even be an actor was already such an amazing kind of leap of faith."
Branagh is perhaps best known for the many Shakespeare films he has scripted, »
- David Bentley
Comic Book Bites: Hancock 2, Thor 2, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
22 January 2012 6:35 AM, PST | The Geek Files | See recent The Geek Files news »
Bolstered by the star power and screen charm of Will Smith, the 2008 superhero movie Hancock powered its way to $624million at the global box office.
Its success came despite predictions that it would be a flop and accusations of homophobia by Us gay rights campaigners.
In addition, director Peter Berg's film was an original concept not based on any comic or cartoon so it was purely Will Smith striding about in Wolverine-inspired biker leathers that proved the big draw. The X-Men influences continued with Charlize Theron's character, who turned out to be a fellow superhuman capable of Storm-style meteorological mayhem.
No surprise that there has long been talk of a Hancock 2.
Back in August 2009, writers Adam Fierro and Glen Mazzara were hired to work on the new script with Smith and Berg but a few months later, Berg admitted there would be a long wait for a »
- David Bentley
The Week in Spandex - The Dark Knight Rises, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Man of Steel, Deadpool, Green Arrow, Fantastic Four and more
18 January 2012 4:07 AM, PST | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
Presenting our weekly round-up of all the biggest news stories from the world of movie superheroes…
Entertainment Weekly went behind-the-scenes of Christopher Nolan’s final Batman feature this past week for an inside look at The Dark Knight Rises that included five new images from the hugely anticipated sequel. Although nothing revelatory, they do provide us with a few more shots of Batman (Christian Bale) and Bane (Tom Hardy), along with Commissioner Gordon (Gary Oldman) and the briefest of glimpses of the new Batcave. The article provides a brief description of said Batcave, and also features quotes from Nolan, Bale and screenwriter Jonathan Nolan [check out the highlights here]. Meanwhile, it seems we might have some waiting to do for further footage from the film, with Warner Bros. opting against a Super Bowl ad spot for Tdkr and Batman-on-Film reporting that the next trailer is likely to arrive in May and could be attached »
- flickeringmyth
Golden Globe winner Idris Elba confirms he'll be reprising his role in 'Thor 2'
16 January 2012 6:07 PM, PST | Hitfix | See recent Hitfix news »
With nearly $450 million in worldwide box-office it's no wonder Marvel is moving fast on a sequel to "Thor", with in-demand TV helmer Alan Taylor ("Mad Men", "Boardwalk Empire", "Game of Thrones") filling the void left by Patty Jenkins in the director's chair and screenwriter Robert Rodat ("Saving Private Ryan") recently hired for scripting duties. Chris Hemsworth will be back as the title character, of course (it will be his third outing in the role after this summer's "The Avengers"), and now it appears that Idris Elba, who played Asgardian sentry Heimdall in the first film, will be returning for the »
- HitFix Staff
Fusedfilm’s Top 10 Movie Headlines of the Week
14 January 2012 12:16 AM, PST | FusedFilm | See recent FusedFilm news »
This week was a relatively slow week in terms of movie news. But we did see the first trailer for Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom, learned that Sony intends to make sequels to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, found out why J.J. Abrams chose to have Star Trek 2 go under 3D conversions, and are celebrating Universal Pictures centennial. We also have our usual casting and directorial hires and very cool movie rumors. So here are the top ten movie headlines of the week. Be sure to click on the links for the full story.
10. Thor 2 Bits: Tom Hiddleston Says Shooting Begins in the Summer; Studio hires Saving Private Ryan Scribe Robert Rodat to Rewrite the Script.
It’s one thing to find out that Thor 2 is expected to shoot this summer, but is another thing to find out that Marvel Studios brought in a new script writer to »
- Mike Lee
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