{"id":5953,"date":"2009-10-29T22:09:01","date_gmt":"2009-10-30T03:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=5953"},"modified":"2018-12-08T23:44:21","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T04:44:21","slug":"anthony-hopkins-t0-play-thors-pop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/29\/anthony-hopkins-t0-play-thors-pop\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Hopkins T0 Play THOR&#8217;s Dad Odin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/ThorOdin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5956\" title=\"ThorOdin\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/ThorOdin-192x300.jpg\" alt=\"ThorOdin\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/ThorOdin-192x300.jpg 192w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/ThorOdin.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/><\/a>Months of speculation amongst comic book fans is now over as Marvel Studios has announced that Academy Award-winning actor Anthony Hopkins has been cast as Odin, King of Asgard and father of superhero\/God of Thunder Thor, in Marvel Studios upcoming film adaptation of the comic of the same name.<\/p>\n<p>It is Odin who banishes Thor to Earth to learn humility and where the God of Thunder becomes a superhero to the people of the modern world. The Thor film will share continuity with the Robert Downey, Jr. <strong>Iron Man<\/strong> films, the recent<strong> Incredible Hulk<\/strong> and the upcoming <strong>Captain America<\/strong> and <strong>Avengers<\/strong> comic book adaptations, making it possible for characters who have appeared in these films to possible show up in <strong>Thor<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Hopkins&#8217;s casting marks perhaps the last major role needing to be filled for the movie, which starts production in January. <strong>Star Trek<\/strong>&#8216;s Chris Hemsworth is playing Thor, with Tom Hiddelston as his brother and nemesis, Loki, and Natalie Portman playing Thor\u2019s love interest, Jane Foster.<\/p>\n<p>I have to admit that I&#8217;m a little disappointed that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/02\/brian-blessed-to-play-thors-dad-odin\/\" target=\"_blank\">rumor<\/a> from back at the beginning of summer that Brian Blessid was going to play Odin won&#8217;t be panning out. I thought he had an incredible charisma and robustness needed to play the king of the Norse gods. Hopkins&#8217;s casting suggests a more quiet, thoughtful and cunning interpretation of the character.<\/p>\n<p>Now that we&#8217;ve got a cast, let&#8217;s see some costumes!<\/p>\n<p>Via <em>Variety<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Months of speculation amongst comic book fans is now over as Marvel Studios has announced that Academy Award-winning actor Anthony Hopkins has been cast as Odin, King of Asgard and father of superhero\/God of Thunder <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/29\/anthony-hopkins-t0-play-thors-pop\/\" title=\"Anthony Hopkins T0 Play THOR&#8217;s Dad Odin\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5954,"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":[7868,2153,21,31,564,297],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5953","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-anthony-hopkins","11":"tag-casting","12":"tag-comics-and-film","13":"tag-marvel-studios","14":"tag-thor"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5953","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5953"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=5953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}