‘Thor: Ragnarok’ Lands A New Writer
By Jack Giroux/Dec. 3, 2015 6:00 am EST
Before the film goes into principal next year, a new Thor 3 writer has been brought in to rewrite the script. Learn more about the Marvel sequel and its new writer after the jump.
Christopher Yost (Thor: The Dark World) and Craig Kyle (Iron Man: Armored Adventures) previously worked on the script for Thor: Ragnarok, but according to The Hollywood Reporter, Stephany Folsom will conduct rewrites on the project. Folsom has few produced credits, but she did write 1969: A Space Odyssey of How Kubrick Learned to Stop Worrying and Land on the Moon — a script I’ve always heard nothing but positive things about.
She’ll be tacking the “buddy movie,” which is how Mark Ruffalo describes Thor: Ragnarok, who will co-star alongside Chris Hemsworth in the sequel. Adding Ruffalo and a fresh voice like Waititi to the mix might give this series the boost it needs.
Hemsworth has expressed his desire to take Thor in a new direction. The jokes in these films have been fairly broad, and rightly so, Hemsworth wouldn’t mind if Thor 3 has a more clever sense of humor:
Thor: Ragnarok opens in theaters July 28th, 2017.
I think [Thor: Ragnarok] needs to be injected with that sort of smart wit and unexpected kind of humor, kind of what James Gunn came in and did with Guardians [of the Galaxy]. It was like off center and unpredictable, and I think we can definitely use a dose of that, you know? I feel we had less of the sort of the naivety or fun or humor that the first [Thor] might have had. I wish we had more of that in the second [movie]. … We’ve done regal. We’ve done Shakespeare, and we’ve shown that. I think now it’s time to go, ‘Okay, cool. Let’s try something different,’ and Taika just had such a brilliant sort of take and funny kind of ideas about where we could [go], how we could do that.
