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Thursday, August 15, 2013

Thor: The Dark World: Loki Gets More Screen Time

"Thor: The Dark World" director Alan Taylor says that the recent extra filming on the sequel includes more scenes with Tom Hiddleston as bad boy Loki. He tells Collider:

"We're doing full scenes... scenes that were not in the movie before. We're adding scenes, creating scenes writing scenes for the first time. It was just we realised how well Loki was working in the movie, and we wanted to do more with him."


Taylor also denied rumors that suits at Disney and Marvel were unhappy with the length of his cut, saying that: "I don't even know what the running time is".

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. 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 Anthony 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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