He nixed the notion that he and Disney/Marvel are at odds over a longer cut of the film, saying "it was never an issue" since he doesn't know what the running time is yet.
The choice of who was doing the music for the sequel did create some tension though- "there was a composer I wanted to go with and it didn’t work out for Marvel, so I was unhappy with that."
He said this about the additional filming:
"We’re almost done cutting, primarily because we have so many visual effects that eventually you have to take your hands off it and let them do their magic. But we're literally shooting some things this week. Anthony Hopkins is in town so we’re continuing to do what Kevin Feige calls 'plus' the movie, so there are new scenes being added even now, so if there wasn’t a release date we'd just keep on making it better and better. It’s not like we screwed something up, it’s that we have time and money to add scenes – ‘what if we had a cool scene like this, then that would let something happen over here.' We find the movie in that process, which I am not used to."
The sequel is on a larger scale than the first film with double the amount of Asgardian characters and the inclusion of Thor (Chris Hemsworth) battling more mythical Norse creatures.
Natalie Portman is back playing Jane.Tom Hiddleston is once again bad boy Loki Kat Dennings will reprise her role as Darcy Lewis, the spunky sidekick to Portman's from the first film and Idris Elba will be reprising the role of Heimdal. Jamie Alexander plays Sif, ‘Chuck’s’ Zachary Levi is lined up to replace Josh Dallas who will not reprise his role as Warriors Three member Frandral Hopkins will be back playing Thor's pops. Christopher Eccleston will play the villain--the character of Malekith The Accursed, is the ruler of the Dark Elves of Svartalfheim and has magical abilities including teleportation, energy projection, flight, and shape changing ability. He also has a weakness to iron which cancels out his powers. Eccleston takes over from Mads Mikkelsen who was originally slated to play the part but had to pass due to scheduling issues with the Hannibal TV show.The great Alice Krige ("Star Trek: First Contact," "Silent Hill") will play the Dark Elf queen Alflyse. Richard Brake will play a captain in an elite squad of warriors known as the Einherjar. Clive Russell ("Sherlock Holmes") will play Tyr, Asgard’s god of war and the older brother of Thor.
"Saving Private Ryan" scribe Robert Rodat is said to have performed a re-write of the sequel. First Thor co-writer Don Payne had written the first draft.
The sequel hits theaters on November 8th 2013
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