Will Thor: The Dark World Get A Director's Cut?

[Dasher10]

It's the least loved Marvel film for a reason. Taylor and Portman were notably unhappy with the film, notably the reshoots which ruined the tone. If we could get a better cut which removes a lot of the forced humor, would you buy/rent it?

 

[Mandon Knight]

er…….no.

 

[Dasher10]

er…….no.

Yeah but Eccleson, Taylor and Portman were all vocal about the film being butchered with reshoots in post.

The only way to redeem it is to have Malekith return somehow (and likely recast since Eccleson hated how long his makeup took). That may be a better idea since Hemsworth's Thor is known for being a bit too comedic for Malekith to be his villain since Malekith is already established as being a fairly dark character. We'd need to see Thor recast with another actor to get the tone right.

Thor 2 is still a really dark stain on the MCU in general. There were things about other films which I didn't particularly like but Thor: TDW is the only movie which I will call a genuinely poor film.

 

[Mandon Knight]

I'm just saying 'will one be released' and the answer is no, it won't. Whether the film deserves one is another question entirely, and that would be a yes.

 

[Leo Zelinsky]

Thor
The Avengers
Thor: The Dark World


Those work really well together during a rewatch. I don't need a directors cut

 

[Spider-Fan]

Marvel Studios has yet to make a single director's cut. I would imagine if one were to get one, it'd be Age of Ultron. But I don't see this ever getting one.

 

[BoredGuy]

It would take more than removing the forced humor to make that movie work
You'd also have to shoot new material to develop Malekith and Kurse more, digitally replace the backgrounds to make Svartalfheim more than an empty quarry, shoot new scenes with Selvig so he can give his exposition dumps while removing Darcy and her boyfriend, and retroactively recast Natalie Portman.

 

[NotNickFury]

If the director's cut is literally just the disc for Dark World cut in half, then maybe.

 

[Xeno]

Why give that pos a director's cut when the director was the root of all its problems? Besides, you never throw good money after bad. TDW was a s--tshow. Feige learned from it, if only to never hire Alan Taylor again. Let it go.

 

[samsnee]

It will be packaged with Terminator Genisys the for the Alan Taylor Criterion Collection

 

[Appfanincaaland]

When I rewatched The Dark World last night as part of my pre-Endgame binge, I was impressed with the thought there is a good movie in there somewhere trying to get out. It is just run off the rails by the single worst story and most underdeveloped villian in the MCU. There are great character moments, particularly with Loki. It is one of the more beautifully shot MCU films and has a great score. When a film you are barely interested in can have a funeral scene for a character you barely know, but the cinematography and score can get you to shed a tear anyway, it underscores the quality of those aspects.

It's one of my least favorite MCU films, but I'd be curious if there is a way to re-cut it and improve it, since there is potential there.

 

[OB12]

When I rewatched The Dark World last night as part of my pre-Endgame binge, I was impressed with the thought there is a good movie in there somewhere trying to get out. It is just run off the rails by the single worst story and most underdeveloped villian in the MCU. There are great character moments, particularly with Loki. It is one of the more beautifully shot MCU films and has a great score. When a film you are barely interested in can have a funeral scene for a character you barely know, but the cinematography and score can get you to shed a tear anyway, it underscores the quality of those aspects.

It's one of my least favorite MCU films, but I'd be curious if there is a way to re-cut it and improve it, since there is potential there.

Agree with a lot of this. I also just watched it the other day and there is definitely good stuff in the movie. Really all of the off-world stuff is pretty good, anything involving Asgard, Loki, Heimdall, and Odin is quality. It is basically all of the Earth-based scenes that really drags this down. I don't think anything better could be made from what we got, the whole foundation of the film is too reliant on Jane.

 

[samsnee]

The only good thing about it was the Thor and Loki interaction. Too much wacky Darcy and her sidekick. Forced plot device to get Jane involved. And the villain was less exciting than paint drying.

 

[Leenie]

Natalie Portman never gave a crap about the MCU. They were nothing more than a paycheck to her. She phoned it in for the first Thor movie. I don't buy for a second that she was all of the sudden "unhappy with this particular film" and refused to come back. She did the first Thor prior to winning an Oscar. After that Oscar win, she was like "ok BYEEEE" and did one last movie.

Granted, that doesn't absolve The Dark World from it's problems ... And I don't think a director's cut would suddenly make those problems go away unless there's about 30 minutes of additional footage to flesh out Maliketh.

I don't flat-out dislike The Dark World ... However, we all know that if this had been Thor's first movie, the reception would have been worse. The movie 100% benefits from us knowing and falling in love with Thor and Loki as characters in previous movies. As far as I'm concerned, Hemsworth and Hiddleston carry the movie just enough for me to enjoy it whenever I decide to marathon the MCU.

 

[Dasher10]

I just rewatched it as part of my MCU binge. It's really only the third act which is bad. if you cut out most of the scenes with Jane and Darcy during the final battle, it actually becomes a genuinely good movie.

 

[Detective Conan]

Is there even a high demand for one?

 

[metaphysician]

It will be packaged with Terminator Genisys the for the Alan Taylor Criterion Collection

Yeah, in retrospect? While the Thor 2 we have is mediocre, I strongly suspect that it was worse before the producers stepped in. Alan Taylor was just the wrong person to choose as director.

At least it still had various actors stealing the scenes, and Darcy continuing to be awesome.

 

[Smurphftw]

When I rewatched The Dark World last night as part of my pre-Endgame binge, I was impressed with the thought there is a good movie in there somewhere trying to get out. It is just run off the rails by the single worst story and most underdeveloped villian in the MCU. There are great character moments, particularly with Loki. It is one of the more beautifully shot MCU films and has a great score. When a film you are barely interested in can have a funeral scene for a character you barely know, but the cinematography and score can get you to shed a tear anyway, it underscores the quality of those aspects.

It's one of my least favorite MCU films, but I'd be curious if there is a way to re-cut it and improve it, since there is potential there.

Pretty much agree with this, but I also must confess that seeing crazy wild eyed Dr. Selvig running around in varying states of undress makes me chuckle every time.

What can I say. I'm easily amused.

 

[Yowza]

Just release various iterations of the script!

That's the only way to really see how plans changed. They'll never do that cause it opens every single creative decision up for critique. Natalie Portman did disagree with the late stage directorial change away from Patty Jenkins but I don't recall any other sort of criticisms from her. A lot of the sudden conflict behind the scenes right before and during the production of a film I think was caused by the committee that's no longer interfering with Marvel Studio's post Civil War.

The only film I can think of that really had 2 different cuts post-production that were made was the Incredible Hulk. I think back shortly after the movie was released one of the mods gave a warning of banning out to anyone here who'd link to the unfinished Norton cut of the film. I was kind of hoping someone would so I could see it but never did.

 

[Batmannerism]

I must be the only person who actually enjoyed TDW as is. IMO it doesn't need tinkering, it's not a great MCU film but I remember it more than Ant Man, and it contains enough humour and chemistry between Hemsworth and Hiddleston to be worth watching. It was fun, could it have been better ? Sure, but it doesn't seem worth the effort given that it's still not a bad film.

 

[psylockolussus]

It's the least loved Marvel film for a reason. Taylor and Portman were notably unhappy with the film, notably the reshoots which ruined the tone. If we could get a better cut which removes a lot of the forced humor, would you buy/rent it?

Its not gonna happen.

 

[Batmannerism]

Is it really the low point of MCU films ?+

IMO it's still waayyy better than Iron Man 2 and not as rage-inducing as parts of Iron Man 3.

 

[Stormborn]

The Dark World's definitely one of the weaker MCU films. Natalie Portman phoned it in, the rest of the human supporting cast was dull as rocks, Svartalheim looked like a disused quarry, the villains had no motive besides being evil and didn't have personalities and they forgot to give Thor a character arc.

I still liked it more than Iron Man 3 or Homecoming though.

 

[Yowza]

Villains as 2D constructs was what upset Mickey Rourke as his stuff was cut out.

 

[DarkKnight88]

From the director of Terminator Genysis? No thanks.