Official Thor Casting Thread

[Keyser Soze]

If they're skewing younger, Ray Stevenson is a respectable enough choice for Volstagg.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

But Volstagg is older. He's much older than Thor and his generation.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

Stephenson for Volstagg? Can't see it. Not in a million, billion, trillion years.

Townsend for Fandrall is noice though.

 

[Webhead2006]

interesting news.

 

[Canis Sapiens]

I remember a casting call somewhere for Volstagg. They were looking for an actor in his 30s, I'm almost sure.

 

[Savage]

The Towsend as Fandral thing I could see given his Dorian Gray in LXG, but Stevenson as Volstagg??????

Bizarre.

I'd be willing to bet they got that bit wrong and they mean Heimdall.

Hell, I was thinking Hogun. The scene with the boars immediately came to mind. I mean yeah in demeanor he'd pretty much be The Punisher again but with a mustache and an accent but it would certainly be more appropriate than Volstagg.

 

[Chewy]

But Volstagg is older. He's much older than Thor and his generation.

Stevenson's around 50, I think

I don't know if it's true but I can kind of see it. He's tall like Volstagg, slap a fat suit on him and I imagine he'd look just about right

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Definitely not the first guy I'd think of for what will inevitably be a comedic role, though.

 

[marcvader]

But Volstagg is older. He's much older than Thor and his generation.

I know Volstagg is older but not "Blessed looking" older.

 

[bunk]

I always think of Volstagg when I see Brendan Gleeson in Braveheart. He's too old now though.

 

[cerealkiller182]

Gleeson could definitely do it

 

[Dog Brother #1]

Would like to see Dominic Cooper as Balder, Blessed as Volstag, Stevenson as Hogun, and Townsend as Fandral. According to IMDB, Joshua Cox has an unconfirmed role. Also Jaimie Alexander is somehow a co-producer... take this with a boulder of salt. Your thoughts?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I'd prefer to see someone Asian as Hogun. Otherwise, those sound good. I doubt Alexander is actually a co-producer.

 

[Triad]

He's still pretty old (65), but I think that John Rhys-Davies would make an excellent Volstagg. He is still younger than Hopkins (72), but not really by much.

For Hogun, my dream casting would be Ken Watanabe.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Watanabe would be cool. I was personally going with Oded Fehr a while ago.

 

[Carlo Comicus]

Townsend? Bleah.

 

[Antonello Blueberry]

Again, the actors I suggested for Volstagg a couple of years ago:

Abraham Benrubi
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0072344/

Shuler Hensley
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0378175/

 

[marvelboy10]

Again, the actors I suggested for Volstagg a couple of years ago:

Abraham Benrubi
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0072344/

Shuler Hensley
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0378175/

I think jack black could be funny for volstagg

 

[Ace of Knaves]

Jack Black? Nay tis what I say.

Gleeson tis the man for Volstagg

 

[Carlo Comicus]

The rumour about Stevenson and Townsend came from Movie Scoop. But it's the same Movie Scoop on twitter???

AH AH AH!!

 

[Webhead2006]

well we should know very shortly who is the rest of the cast ie most of those guys cast recently who havent been revealed in their roles yet. Since we do know officially the film starts in mid jan.

 

[Chewy]

Zachary Levi had been cast as Fandral but had to drop out due to Chuck getting picked up for another season

With all the recent cancellations of shows — Southland, Eastwick, Dollhouse — it’s time for some good news to come from TV-land. One of the favorite shows among our staffers is Chuck, the NBC action comedy starring Zachary Levi as a mild-mannered nerd-turned-spy. It just avoided the Grim Reaper last spring to be picked up for its third season, and is tentatively scheduled to come back in March. Not so fast, though, because there’s a rumor that Chuck may return as early as January. Our Brian Truitt caught up with Levi yesterday for a feature in the magazine next month pegged to his upcoming role in Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, and wanted to get the early premiere scoop from Chuck himself. “Yeah, that’s a pretty solid rumor,” Levi says, taking a break from the editing bay after wrapping an episode of Chuck that he directed (which will be the ninth of the next season). Read below for more of what Brian found out from Levi, including some hints about Chuck’s upcoming season.

Levi says that there was a feeling among cast and crew that NBC might start airing the new season this month or next, but he thinks that scrapped that plan because there wouldn’t be enough time for promotion. “You don’t want to just launch something half-baked, which I appreciate,” Levi says. “Also, you don’t want to run like four episodes and then be down for the whole holiday season. That’s what’s happened to us the last couple of years. There have been certain things that have preempted our schedule, it gets a little herky-jerky and people can’t fall into a rhythm with your show.” Levi admits that even a January launch could be problematic, since NBC will be airing the Winter Olympics a couple weeks in February. If that happens, Levi says, “they’re going to double up on some episodes – they’ll air two in a row for a premiere or something like that, so we’ll get a good chunk of them out of the way and get people really rolling with the show and then only be down for a couple weeks before coming back for the rest of the season.”

And it’s a longer season than they initially thought: NBC originally asked for a 13-episode third season, and then ordered six more. That turned out to be a positive for Chuck but a negative for director Kenneth Branagh’s movie Thor, which starts filming in January. Levi had been cast as Fandral, one of Thor’s Warriors Three in the comic book adaptation, and the actor had even been working out especially for the role, but turned it down when they got the extra pickup. (Levi admits that producers had asked him to audition for the role of the usually beefy God of Thunder, but told them no. “I’m tall and in pretty good shape, but I’m not big and girthy like that,” he says.) Maybe all that working out will help when he shares screen time with former wrestler “Stone Cold” Steve Austin, one of many guest stars on Chuck’s third season. Levi says that Brandon Routh (Superman Returns) appears in approximately eight episodes, and Kristen Kreuk (Smallville) will be in three. Diedrich Bader (of The Drew Carey Show) and former Reno: 911 star Cedric Yarbrough will guest on the episode that Levi directs.

The last time we saw Chuck in the second season finale, he had had the new Intersect 2.0 downloaded into his brain, taken down a bunch of bad guys and uttered the phrase “I know kung fu.” Levi reveals that the character will see a lot of growth and change this season, continuing his tenuous (and maybe not so tenuous, he teases) romantic relationship with super-spy Sarah (Yvonne Strahovski) and getting used to the new thing in his noggin. “This new Intersect 2.0 grants Chuck the ability to have physical powers of sorts, whether it be kung fu or playing a musical instrument or maneuvering a vehicle of some kind,” Levi says. “But it’s glitchy. It’s not a perfect system because it was meant for a cool, collected, calm, in-control spy who’s on top of his emotions, and unfortunately Chuck is not that guy. He’s still an emotional guy. That starts messing with the new Intersect’s ability to perform. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. But he still is the unwilling, unwitting hero, and he still needs the assistance of his team – he can’t just go out there and take on a bunch of baddies all by himself.”

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[TheCorpulent1]

Good for him. And us. I don't really like him for Fandral.

 

[Carlo Comicus]

Good for him. And us. I don't really like him for Fandral.

Me too.

 

[carrrnuttt]

Zachary Levi had been cast as Fandral but had to drop out due to Chuck getting picked up for another season

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If you don't mind, I'm reposting this article in the Chuck thread.

And yeah, good for us, because I like Zach Levi as Chuck more than I'd like him as Fandral.