Well, so Jessica Derschowitz at Entertainment Weekly tells us:
Mark Ruffalo: Thor: Ragnarok will be 'an intergalactic buddy road movie'
Plus: The actor teases Cate Blanchett’s villainous Hela
Mark Ruffalo will be seeing green again when he returns as the Hulk in the upcoming Thor: Ragnarok, and the actor says the film will be a buddy movie of Avenger-level proportions.
“It’s an intergalactic buddy road movie with Banner and Thor,” Ruffalo told Entertainment Tonight at a press junket for his latest movie, Now You See Me 2.
The actor added fans will see “a lot more Hulk” this time around, doing what Bruce Banner/The Big Green Guy does best. When Now You See Me 2 costar Woody Harrelson asked if the Hulk will be even “Hulk-ier” in this new film, Ruffalo responded, “The Hulk gets Hulk-ier. The Hulk Hulks out. Hulk-ier and bigger.”
“She plays the worst of the worst,” Ruffalo told Entertainment Tonight of Blanchett’s character. “So evil. She is going to kill us. It’s such a great part she gets to play.”
The press release also confirms that Tessa Thompson will play Valkyrie, a classic Marvel superhero character who first appeared in The Avengers #83 (published December 1970) and has remained one of the core members of the Defenders.
Before you say it: yes, Thompson is "black" and has dark hair while Valkyrie is "white" and has blond hair. The MCU has nothing to do with the classic pre-Quesada(remember him?)/Disney Marvel Comics so like many I just see this Asgard and Asgardians as nothing more than they are portrayed as -aliens. So accuracy as to Norse gods being white skinned is null and void.
Thor: Ragnarok arrives in theaters Nov. 3, 2017.
“It’s an intergalactic buddy road movie with Banner and Thor,” Ruffalo told Entertainment Tonight at a press junket for his latest movie, Now You See Me 2.
The actor added fans will see “a lot more Hulk” this time around, doing what Bruce Banner/The Big Green Guy does best. When Now You See Me 2 costar Woody Harrelson asked if the Hulk will be even “Hulk-ier” in this new film, Ruffalo responded, “The Hulk gets Hulk-ier. The Hulk Hulks out. Hulk-ier and bigger.”
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Marvel confirmed the cast for Ragnarok
last week, including returning stars Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Ruffalo,
Tom Hiddleston as Loki, and Anthony Hopkins as Odin. The new cast
members include Creed star Tessa Thompson, Jeff Goldblum, and Cate Blanchett as the villainous Hela, the ruler of the realms of the dead.
Marvel: Karl Urban (Dredd, Star Trek) has been cast as Skurge, also known as The Executioner. He is an Asgardian who was originally depicted as a supervillain and long-time antagonist of Thor, sporting a magic double-bladed battle axe. In the comics, Skurge fell in love with the Enchantress and was frequently used in schemes by her and the trickster god Loki. According to Wikipedia, the character eventually joined up with the heroes of Asgard in a mission to Hel, “where he sacrificed his axe to destroy Naglfar, the ship of the dead, and delay Ragnarok, and sacrificed his life to hold the bridge at Gjallerbru so the heroes could escape the forces of Hel.”
Marvel: Karl Urban (Dredd, Star Trek) has been cast as Skurge, also known as The Executioner. He is an Asgardian who was originally depicted as a supervillain and long-time antagonist of Thor, sporting a magic double-bladed battle axe. In the comics, Skurge fell in love with the Enchantress and was frequently used in schemes by her and the trickster god Loki. According to Wikipedia, the character eventually joined up with the heroes of Asgard in a mission to Hel, “where he sacrificed his axe to destroy Naglfar, the ship of the dead, and delay Ragnarok, and sacrificed his life to hold the bridge at Gjallerbru so the heroes could escape the forces of Hel.”
The press release also confirms that Tessa Thompson will play Valkyrie, a classic Marvel superhero character who first appeared in The Avengers #83 (published December 1970) and has remained one of the core members of the Defenders.
Before you say it: yes, Thompson is "black" and has dark hair while Valkyrie is "white" and has blond hair. The MCU has nothing to do with the classic pre-Quesada(remember him?)/Disney Marvel Comics so like many I just see this Asgard and Asgardians as nothing more than they are portrayed as -aliens. So accuracy as to Norse gods being white skinned is null and void.
Thor: Ragnarok arrives in theaters Nov. 3, 2017.
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