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Poll Natalie Portman as Thor? (1 year old Comics Spoilers)

Pick One Option Below Please.

  • Natalie Portman should just play only Jane Foster in a hypothetical Feminized Thor Movie.

    Votes: 4 14.8%

  • Natalie Portman should play both Jane Foster and Thor in a hypothetical Feminized Thor Movie.

    Votes: 10 37.0%

  • What is this ####? Thor is a Man. Stop ####ing with my Childhood! NO! NO! NO!

    Votes: 8 29.6%

  • Recast. Dump Portman, she's not All That any way. :(

    Votes: 5 18.5%
  • Total voters
    27
Guy Gardener

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Very beautiful, but the body of a 15 year old boy, and the acting chops of a sack of chalk.

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Natalie Portman played Jane Foster in the movies.

Jane Foster is Thor in the Comics right now, and that doesn't seem like it's going to change any time soon.

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Of course a Bill Bixby/Lou Feringo (1970s Incredible Hulk TV Show) swap-out could be called for, that Portman plays the cancerous, sacked by Chemotherapy, bald Jane Foster, and then they bring in a 6 foot four Amazon (OO! Gwendolyn Christie!!!) to play Thor after an emaciated Jane Foster strikes her walking stick against the Earth to gain the powers of the Mighty Thor.

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Or Natalie has a blond wig and spends a year training on her upper body physique before the first day of shooting? 'Problem is that the better she looks as Thor, the worse she looks as Jane, who is supposed to be at deaths door, and vices versus.

Opinions?

(I just noticed that elements from V for Vendetta could be manipulated into a fanfilm about (bald) Jane Foster and the Red Skull. Gosh, I am so slow.)
 
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That's still a big leap from "upset that a certain director was canned" to "hating Marvel," especially considering: 1) She doesn't actually say anything of the sort; 2) This was 5 years ago without any comment of the sort; and most importantly, 3) the article is from Hollywood Reporter that cites "sources." Hard-cutting journalism.
 
I'd say that I really don't want the worst part of the Thor movies becoming the worst replacement hero Marvel has done since Doc Ock became Spidey. So, that's a no vote to Portman playing Jane Thorster.
 
It looks like I'm going to be the first (possibly ONLY) person to speak out in favor of this idea.

The Thor movies are among my Top 5 favorite MCU films (along with the first and second Captain America movies and Iron Man 2), and Natalie's Jane Foster is a big reason why, so I'd definitely be up for her coming back to the films at some point and taking up Thor's mantle.
 
I know this movie would never happen, without a bad shrimp related mass food poisoning incident at a hemsworth Family BBQ. I was only posing a question of how "her" secret identity would be constructed and exhibited inside the limits of a movie.

If different actresses did play Thor, and Foster, it's easy to see how whosoever is playing Jane Foster is going to be sidelined by the Thor Actress. Which if Portman is holding bad blood against Marvel might be in her favour, if there's only two or three scenes where feeble Mortal Jane Foster takes centre stage.
 
"Boyhood" it.
Film the movie in 2 parts, all of the feeble Jane parts first, then take a year off so that she can put on weight and bulk up, then film the Thor parts.

Or, "Captain America" her to look weak and small like they did for Chris Evans, while real Portman is in shape for Thor.
 
Natalie Portman is a delight and was a highlight of the first Thor film, which remains among my favorite Marvel movies, as opposed to the sequel, which is my least (but not because of Portman). That is all.
 
Well she might do it because she would become the main star of the Thor movie...that could ease any bad feelings she might have with Marvel over Thor 2.
 
Because y'know, feminism?

1. Falcon is her love interest. That shit is so cool! He's a mutant, y'know. ;) That's the other reason I want this Thor in a movie.

2. If Natalie isn't interested, try to imagine Kat Dennings (Jane Foster's Intern Darcy in the two Thor Movies) as.... OMG!

Kat Dennings as Darcy who turns into Thor played by the other Broke Girl Beth Behrs who is easily half the weight of Natalie, and even less Thor-Like. Not that the weight/height of any Thor is relative to their magical strength, and Beth is either tall or always in heels, so I'm not sure if she could beat me up or not, but probably. Regardless, it's synergy for their sitcom, which is maybe their primary source of income no matter how much they get paid to star in a new hypothetical feminized Thor movie.

(Beth (5 foot 5.) is two inches taller than Kat, and Nat.)

Two broke Thors. :)
 
A "Thor isn't worthy!" movie could be a lot of fun. Marvel could go the Beta-Ray Bill route or the Jane-Thor route. Though I would lean toward Beta-Ray Bill (because he's just an awesome character), Jason Aaron's Jane-Thor storyline would, in its broad outlines, lend itself better to a screenplay than Walt Simonson's Beta-Ray Bill storyline.

I'd prefer they recast Jane Foster entirely than bring back Portman. Romola Garai would be pretty awesome as Jane-Thor, come to think of it. Or Rosamund Pike.
 
The Hour was simply divine TV.

We're sticking to Asgardians have British accents?

Betaray Thor could sound really Alien, or at least central European Cylon? Although Beta Ray Bill would three distinct voices, depending on whether he is the Cyborg Frankenstien monster devised to guard the fleet of sleeper ships, the last of his species, or Asgardianized Betaray Thor, or Odin Enchantment reversed to his original non super monster, ordinary alien body.

In the comics, I think Jane is being forced uncontrollably by magic to speak in an Asgardian dialect of Engish with "thees" and "thous" even though she's still clearly thinking in American.
 
In thirty years, I have genuinely never thought about what Beta-Ray Bill sounds like. He sounds like me in my head, and that's been good enough. :)
 
His accent is definitely 2 percent digital in this.

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If they were to go the route of a female Thor replacement, my preference wouldn't be to use Jane Foster at all, but just give the Hammer to Sif or something. Jane Foster in the movies just isn't that interesting a character in her own right to warrant it and her supposed absence from Thor 3 makes it unlikely there'll be any movement on that front anytime soon.

Now granted Sif hasn't had much screen time in the movies and only two guest appearances on AoS, but I think there's more potential there than with Foster.
 
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