{"id":4061,"date":"2009-06-02T12:08:16","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T17:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=4061"},"modified":"2018-12-08T23:47:41","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T04:47:41","slug":"brian-blessed-to-play-thors-dad-odin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/02\/brian-blessed-to-play-thors-dad-odin\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Blessed To Play THOR’s Dad Odin"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"brianblessed\"<\/a>It looks as if Brian Blessed has been cast in the upcoming adaptation of the Norse god-turned-superhero Marvel Comic Thor, as the god of thunder’s father Odin. The news comes from the recently launched\u00a0Bleeding Cool<\/a>comics news website, run by long time comics gossip journalist Rich Johnston. Johnston previously worked in London radio advertising where he had occasion to work with Blessed on a couple of campaigns.<\/p>\n

Immediately identifable by his booming voice, Blessed has been in numerous genre projects, mostly noteably the 1980 big screen adaptation Flash Gordon<\/strong>, which we love<\/a>\u00a0here, where he played Vultan, Prince of the Hawkmen. Although his performance was memorably tongue-in-cheek, He was much more restrained in actor\/director Kenneth Branagh’s 1996 big screen adaptation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet<\/em>. As Thor<\/strong>‘s director, it should be interesting to see which acting style Branagh allows Blessed to run with.<\/p>\n

Thor<\/strong> is targeted with a May 20, 2011 release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It looks as if Brian Blessed has been cast in the upcoming adaptation of the Norse god-turned-superhero Marvel Comic Thor, as the god of thunder’s father Odin. The news comes from the recently launched\u00a0Bleeding Coolcomics [click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4063,"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":[7868,1681,21,31,3,297],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4061","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-comicsandfilm","8":"category-news","9":"tag-actors","10":"tag-brian-blessed","11":"tag-casting","12":"tag-comics-and-film","13":"tag-coming-soon","14":"tag-thor"},"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t