'We've Got Some Ideas' — Chris Hemsworth Confirms Thor Future Following Avengers: Doomsday

Marvel prima Chris Hemsworth has confirmed determination are plans for him to inactive play Thor "a mates of times" aft this year's Avengers: Doomsday.

Speaking connected the SmartLess podcast with Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes, and Will Arnett, Hemsworth suggested audiences would spot him represent the fan-favorite Norse deity for immoderate clip yet.

It's a astonishing revelation, not slightest due to the fact that Avengers: Doomsday is expected to beryllium an apocalyptic affair, wherever the fates of galore Marvel characters volition apt bent successful the balance. But it besides serves to reverse the communicative connected Hemsworth being acceptable to bent up his hammer — a communicative Hemsworth initially sparked himself by saying helium was "ready to adjacent the book" connected the character, earlier much precocious walking that sentiment back.

"It's been truthful overmuch fun," Hemsworth said, via The Playlist, aft confirming determination were plans for him to instrumentality post-Doomsday much than once. "Unlike a batch of what the different characters that the [actors] were given, they person had to beryllium beauteous accordant — whereas moving with Taika Waititi connected his films versus Kenneth Branagh with those films and past with the Russos, each [the films] had rather a antithetic benignant of tonal opinion."

"I was talking to Kevin Feige astir it, and helium said it's chill due to the fact that the assemblage present expects melodramatic turns with the character," helium continued. "And immoderate we bash adjacent — we've got immoderate ideas to bash thing beauteous unsocial again and hopefully beryllium [different]."

The caller Thor-focused Avengers: Doomsday trailer (that's not a trailer but really a portion of communicative information, apparently) featured a somber instrumentality connected the character, acold removed from the wackier mentation seen successful the widely-panned Thor: Love and Thunder. Hemsworth has discussed the failings of that movie before, but doubled down connected them again here, acknowledging that it had taken the silliness excessively far.

"You bash request to beryllium careful," Hemsworth said. "When we made Ragnarök, it was rather a twist, with Taika's [film]. And it was truthful fun. There was a immense appreciation for the shift. And past Love And Thunder, it was benignant of similar a Monty Python sketch, and we took the piss astir apt a small much, and past determination was immoderate backlash. There was this existent benignant of, 'Why is helium a goofball and wherefore is it similar this?' And, [audiences] violently offended and we were like, 'Oh, we're conscionable having amusive oregon trying to effort thing different.'"

Of course, Thor is expected (but not yet confirmed) to instrumentality aft Avengers: Doomsday successful its forthcoming sequel Avengers: Secret Wars. Marvel has said precise small of its plans for films aft that, though we cognize that it is rebooting X-Men and plans to marque Black Panther 3. It's hard to ideate Thor appearing successful either of those. Does this mean we're getting a much grounded Thor 5, then? And what volition its communicative be?

Already, fans are wondering whether this means Hemsworth's quality decidedly survives the events of Doomsday and Secret Wars — oregon not. One storyline could spot him autumn successful conflict and extremity up successful Valhalla, which would besides reunite him with Jane and Heimdall. There's besides the dangling crippled thread of Hercules to resoluteness — possibly helium ends up successful Valhalla also? But these are ideas which we'll request to hold respective years inactive to see. As a reminder, Avengers: Doomsday lands successful theaters connected December 18 this year, earlier Avengers: Secret Wars opens connected December 17, 2027.

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