{"id":21391,"date":"2012-08-01T23:22:52","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T03:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=21391"},"modified":"2018-12-08T23:32:54","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T04:32:54","slug":"christopher-eccleston-in-talks-to-play-thor-the-dark-world-villain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2012\/08\/01\/christopher-eccleston-in-talks-to-play-thor-the-dark-world-villain\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Eccleston In Talks To Play THOR: THE DARK WORLD Villain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Face.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-21392\" title=\"Face\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Face-255x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Christopher Eccleston has enough geek cred built up from his time as\u00a0<strong>Doctor Who, <\/strong>his work on <strong>Heroes<\/strong>, and his bringing Destro to life on the big screen in <strong>G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra<\/strong> that he doesn&#8217;t ever need to take another genre role and he will still be\u00a0worshiped\u00a0as a geek good at comic shops and sci-fi conventions around the world. \u00a0But when he is rumored to become involved as a comic book film, his fans let loose a little squeal of joy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2012\/08\/we-have-a-thor-2-villain-christopher-eccleston-to-play-malekith-the-accursed\/\">Deadline<\/a> is reporting that Eccleston has been cast in the role of Malekith the Accursed, the main villain in\u00a0<strong>Thor: The Dark World<\/strong>. We spoke a bit about the character <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2012\/07\/25\/thor-the-dark-world-to-journey-underground\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, we should hold our breathe a bit until that information is officially confirmed. After all, Deadline were the ones who originally reported that Jessica Biel was definitely cast as Viper in\u00a0<strong>The Wolverine<\/strong>. But if it is true, the sequel will be getting a great actor with the gravitas to play the role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">But the news is coming from Deadline, so let&#8217;s keep our fingers crossed. <\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2012\/08\/01\/christopher-eccleston-in-talks-to-play-thor-the-dark-world-villain\/\" title=\"Christopher Eccleston In Talks To Play THOR: THE DARK WORLD Villain\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":21392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[106,84],"tags":[5479,5426,1672,1872,511,4969,3271,5400],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21391","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-comicsandfilm","8":"category-news","9":"tag-christopher-eccleston","10":"tag-deadline","11":"tag-doctor-who","12":"tag-g-i-joe-the-rise-of-cobra","13":"tag-heroes","14":"tag-jessica-biel","15":"tag-the-wolverine","16":"tag-thor-the-dark-world"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2,4],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21391"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=21391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}