Taglines: Not every god has a plan.
Thor: Love and Thunder Movie Storyline. Thor’s retirement is interrupted by a galactic killer known as Gorr the God Butcher, who seeks the extinction of the gods. To combat the threat, Thor enlists the help of King Valkyrie, Korg and ex-girlfriend Jane Foster, who – to Thor’s surprise – inexplicably wields his magical hammer, Mjolnir, as the Mighty Thor. Together, they embark upon a harrowing cosmic adventure to uncover the mystery of the God Butcher’s vengeance and stop him before it’s too late.
Thor: Love and Thunder is an American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Thor, produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It is intended to be the direct sequel to Thor: Ragnarok (2017) and the 29th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film is directed by Taika Waititi, who co-wrote the screenplay with Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, and stars Chris Hemsworth as Thor, alongside Tessa Thompson, Natalie Portman, Christian Bale, Chris Pratt, Jaimie Alexander, Pom Klementieff, Dave Bautista, Karen Gillan, Sean Gunn, Jeff Goldblum, and Vin Diesel.
Thor: Love and Thunder is scheduled to be released in the United States on July 8, 2022. It was previously set for release on November 5, 2021, but was delayed to February 18, 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, before being moved up a week to February 11 once Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness was rescheduled from November 2021 to March 2022. It was delayed once again to May 6, 2022 in December 2020, before shifting to the July 2022 date in October 2021. It will be part of Phase Four of the MCU.
Principal photography began on January 26, 2021,[56] at Fox Studios Australia in Sydney, under the working title The Big Salad. Filming was delayed from an initial August 2020 start date due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Industrial Light & Magic provided the same StageCraft virtual production technology used on the Disney+ Star Wars series The Mandalorian, which Waititi directed an episode of, creating a custom volume space at Fox Studios Australia.
The space features more LED panels and offers a higher resolution than the original one created for The Mandalorian. Waititi also used Satellite Lab’s PlateLight technology (after previously using their Dynamiclight technology on Ragnarok), which is a special rig to capture multiple lighting set-ups simultaneously within a single shot at a high frame rate, allowing him to select which lighting set up he would like in post-production.
Filming occurred at Centennial Park in Sydney in early February, with Klementieff, Gillan, Bautista, and Pratt completing their scenes shortly afterward. In early March, set photos revealed Damon and Neill were reprising their roles as the Asgardian actors playing Loki and Odin, along with Luke Hemsworth in his Ragnarok role as the actor playing Thor. Melissa McCarthy was also revealed to portray an actress playing Hela alongside her husband Ben Falcone in an undisclosed role; these cameos were for a sequence where actors reenact scenes from Ragnarok.
Damon filmed his part over two days. Alexander completed filming her scenes by the end of the month, while Goldblum was confirmed to appear as the Grandmaster, and Russell Crowe was revealed to be portraying Zeus in a “fun cameo”. Crowe finished filming his scenes in April. At the beginning of May, Waititi said there were four weeks left of shooting. As well, Barry “Baz” Idoine, who worked with Waititi as the cinematographer on The Mandalorian, stated he was working on the film, and would continue to do so through the end of 2021. Filming wrapped on June 1, 2021, by which point Neill had revealed that singer Jenny Morris would appear in the film.
Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)
Directed by: Taika Waititi
Starring: Chris Hemsworth, Tessa Thompson, Natalie Portman, Christian Bale, Chris Pratt, Jaimie Alexander, Pom Klementieff, Dave Bautista, Karen Gillan, Sean Gunn, Jeff Goldblum, Vin Diesel
Screenplay by: Taika Waititi Jennifer Kaytin Robinson
Production Design by: Nigel Phelps, Ra Vincent
Cinematography by: Barry Baz Idoine
Film Editing by: Maryann Brandon
Costume Design by: Mayes C. Rubeo
Set Decoration by: Katie Sharrock
Art Direction by: Vlad Bina, Andrew Chan, Tony Drew, Jenny Hitchcock, Charlie Revai
Music by: Michael Giacchino
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi violence and action, language, some suggestive material and partial nudity.
Distributed by: Walt Disney Pictures
Release Date: July 8, 2022
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