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Okay, first we see multiple images of Chris Evans’ costume for THE FIRST AVENGER: CAPTAIN AMERICA, and now we’ve got two uniformly rendered pieces of concept art depicting Chris Hemsworth from Kenneth Branagh’s THOR movie. Collider posted these, saying they were submitted by a reader named “Dan”, and with the Cap images debuting just hours before, many are becoming suspect on the validity of this stuff.
You can click on either image to make them really big, and judge the details a little better. I’m a little on the fence with these.
Granted, it looks pretty polished and legit, but Marvel doesn’t seem to be commenting one way or another on these. That said, these THOR images look pretty close to the officially posted shot of Hemsworth we showed you back in April. This is however the first time we’ve seen (potentially) what Thor will look like wielding his legendary hammer, Mjolner, which appears to be glowing. Interesting.
THOR co-stars Natalie Portman as the love-interest Jane Foster, Anthony Hopkins as Thor’s father Odin, Tom Hiddleston as Loki(the villain), plus Ray Stevenson, Tadanobu Asano, and Joshua Dallas as the Warriors Three. Idris Elba also appears as Heimdall, Stellan Skarsgard as Selvig, and Jaimie Alexander as Sif. I’ve long said that Thor is one of the Marvel characters I think would be the hardest to translate on the big screen. Hopefully Branagh can pull it off. What do you think of these images? Is this how you pictured Thor to look?
I was talking to my buddy and Marvel Comics’ artist Mark Brooks about these shots, and we both agreed these don’t look very Asgard-ish, but maybe we’re seeing THE AVENGERS side of Thor. Share your thoughts in the comments below.
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Born and raised in Dallas, Mark has been a movie critic since 1994, with reviews featured in print, radio and National TV. In 2001 he started the Entertainment section of the Herorealm website, where he contributed film reviews and celebrity interviews until 2004. After three years of service there, he started Bigfanboy.com, which has become one of the Dallas film community's leading information websites. Bigfanboy hosts several movie screenings in the Texas area, and works closely with film and TV studios and promotional partners to host exciting events and contests. The site also features a variety of rare celebrity and filmmaker interviews, and Bigfanboy.com regularly covers the film festival circuit as well. In addition to Hollywood reporting, Mark has worked for many years as an advertising and sci-fi/comic book artist. Clients have included Lucasfilm Ltd., Topps Trading Cards, The Dallas Mavericks and The Dallas Stars. From 2002 until 2015 he managed the Dallas Comic Con, Sci-Fi Expo and Fan Days events in the DFW area. He currently catalogs rare comic books and movie memorabilia for Heritage Auctions, and runs the Dallas Comic Show conventions, but remains an avid moviegoer and cinema buff. 
Wow. First Cap, now this. Someone in the design department knows what they are doing!
Not bad. Wishing we could have had some kind of helmet with this though. Hopefully that’ll show up in the film.
Reminds me of the old FLASH GORDON movie…..
He’s missing the Helmet. Otherwise its OK