According to a press release from Marvel studios, Natalie Portman will play Jane Foster in Kenneth Branagh’s “Thor”. The addition of the character Jane Foster means that our new Thor will be a return to the old school Thor. Back in the day, the Marvel comic partly focused on Thor’s human alter ego, Dr. Donald Blake. The good doctor was physically challenged and got about with the use of cane that would change into Mjolnir, Thor’s big hammer.
The story goes that Odin, the Allfather, wanted to teach a willful Thor the meaning of humility and so sent him Earthbound, to live as a human. Kenneth Branagh will bring a Shakespearean edge to the story of Thor and this is good. Thor will battle has brother and ne’er do well Loki, the misunderstood. Thor will be in theatres May 20, 2011.
