TYPE OF MOVIE
- Taika Waititi drawn inspiration from “48 HRS., Withnail and I, and even Planes, Trains and Automobiles.”
- It’s a standalone movie and hopes to reinvent the franchise.
- Cosmic road trip and adventure elements. Space ships, aliens, planets...
- Ragnarok and Planet Hulk storylines forged into one movie.
- "Jack Kirby was a big influence in the design of the film."
- Villains side: Loki Hela, Skurge, Grandmaster, Surtur, Fenris Wolf, "Thanos"...
- Heroes side: Thor, Hulk, Valkyrie, Odin, The Warriors Three, Heimdall, Doctor Strange...
Executive Producer Brad Winderbaum: “It’s going to have some of the wildest, craziest, most amazing action you’ve ever seen in the MCU. The Thor / Hulk relationship is one that is incredible.”
Oficial Synopsis:Thor is imprisoned on the other side of the universe without his mighty hammer and finds himself in a race against time to get back to Asgard to stop Ragnarok — the destruction of his homeworld and the end of Asgardian civilization — at the hands of an all-powerful new threat, the ruthless Hela. But first he must survive a deadly gladiatorial contest that pits him against his former ally and fellow Avenger — the Incredible Hulk!
EARTH
- Thor and Loki on Earth together both casually dressed.
- Thor takes selfies with 2 young women and one of them recognizes Loki.
- Loki's attention is diverted to something he sees in the sky above him.
- Thor and Loki are in front of the rubble of a collapsed builiding called "Shady Acres Aged Care Home".
- Thor finds the adress of Doctor Strange in a piece of paper on the ground.
- Funny scene with Thor and Loki being led to a bathroom in a construction site.
- Thor meets Doctor Strange and aks for help in locating Odin. Doctor Strange agrees as long as the 3 be on their way back to Asgard.
- Thor and Loki see/find homeless Odin in a alley. Hela appears, confronts them and they all have a scene together.
- Stunts rehearsed in a alley. People being projected in the air.
SAKAAR
- "Insane and futuristic place". Barbarical and desolate gladiatorial planet. “[Sakaar is] basically where every wormhole across the universe dumps out its trash, so you get people from all walks of life with all sorts of incredible abilities and powers,”
- Colorful buildings and special architecture. All type of aliens and sakaaran citizens with very colorful clothes and eccentric looks.
- The Grandmaster rules Skaar. He is “charming but nefarious and a hedonist, a pleasure-seeker.” The Grandmaster has a “space ship".
- The Grandmaster is dressed in blue, gold and red. Grey/blueish hair color and blue make up. Looks a lot like is “brother” The Collector.
- The Grandmaster sitting in the massive arena with Loki watching the gladiatorial games and Thor vs Hulk.
- Loki dressed up with a kind of light armored green clothes, a green/yellow cape... Loki having a drink next to eccentric looking people.
- Valkyrie is originally from Asgard but is hiding in Skaar and has a “business relationship” with The Grandmaster.
- Valkyrie first meets Thor in Skaar and brings him do The Grandmaster “thinking he might be of interest”.
- Valkyrie has white war paint in her face, a leather armour and blue cape over one shoulder. She also uses chain mail in her arms to block and attack. And she has 2 daggers attached to her body and “a very special sword”.
- Valkyrie is a though, “badass” warrior and doesn’t need much armour. Thor is a fan of The Valkyrie, the elite women warriors…
- Valkyrie is a “hard-drinking warrior”. She has a drink with aliens warriors on a sort of bar.
- Thor meets Banner outside the arena and they seem glad to see each other. Banner wearing a suit.
- Hulk is Skaar’s “most successful and popular” fighter. “He’s much more of a character than the green rage machine” “He’s got a swagger. He’s like a god.”
- Massive gladiatorial arena with thousands of spectators.
- Thor with short hair which he gets when he becomes a gladiator and red war paint on his face and clothes.
- Thor enters the arena with all his armour and weapons. Hulk also enters the arena roaring.
- Thor has gladiatorial armour, red cape over one shoulder, a metal "winged" helmet, 2 swords, a mace and a shield. No mjolnir.
- Hulk armour includes a "roman style helmet with red feathers", a metal shoulder pad, an axe, a hammer and a spiked metal "arm amour".
- Hulk and Thor running at each other in a gladiator arena.
- Thor “powering up” with lightning without the hammer goes running while engulfed with lightning and making the ground shatter, to jump at Hulk where they both clash mid air with what looks like mjolnir coming to Thor’s hand and knocking Hulk hard in the face.
- Korg and Miek referenced. Both Planet Hulk storyline characters.
- Thor and Valkyrie seem to come out of a spaceship and into a scrapyard with several characters known as "scrappers" which are armed.
- Thor dressed up in his more normal looking armour. Similar to the other movies. Long hair…
- Apparent battle takes place. A lot of debri scattered all over the scrapyard and a big “crater” on the ground.
ASGARD
- Thor confronts Loki.
- Loki accidentaly unleashed Hela. She had been “locked away for millennia” in a prison.
- Hela arriving on the rainbow bridge and being greeted by asgardians warriors and asgardian spaceships.
- Hela with the giant headdress, green suit and green cape. She also has a different blackish suit and she doesn’t always have the headdress.
- Hela’s headresss is capable of manifesting weapons and also different parts of her body are able to do that.
- Hela doing stunts on the steps. Jumping and spinning in the air projecting herself down the steps.
- Hela on the steps with Skurge and in front of a crowd of civilian asgardians.
- Shaved head Skurge with amour and axe.
- Hela attacks Thor and that sends him to Skaar. Hela is seen holding mjolnir by the top.
- Banner and Hulk are both outside. Banner is laying on the ground.
- Yellow, orange and black striped spaceship on the ground.
- Odin "formally" dressed. Not in armour but only in gold/orange royal clothes.
HEL / MUSPELHEIM
- Giant fire demon face fills the entire frame while Hulk jumps at him and tries to knock him down. "Surtur?".
- Thor with mjolnir facing what looks like Surtur in a rocky planet.
- Thor holding mjolnir and summoning lightning with chains around his body and some “spiked” metal frame on his back. Thor deflecting hits with mjolnir.
- Thor jumping and hitting mjolnir on the ground without the chains on him.
- Thor with gladiatorial armour and long hair.
EXTRA INFORMATION
- Giant 20 feet wolf seen in the clip released for SDCC. "Fenris Wolf?".
- Quinjet that Hulk used on earth appeared on set.
- Skurge goes on a "journey arc" and ends up in a different place than theone he started. "Skurge's last Stand?"
- Mask used by Taika while on set looking alot like a Celestial. Ziran the Tester.
- Cast includes a character called "Warden". In Marvel comics there is a "Warden" of the "Cube". A super-villain "rehabilitation facility".
- Sam Neill did a few days on set. Undisclosed role.