# Anthony Hopkins will be Odin in Kenneth Branagh’s adaptation of Marvel’s Thor **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 2, 2009, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthony-hopkins-will-be-odin-in-kenneth-branagh-s-adaptation-of-marvel-s-thor/516047 "2009-11-02T13:57:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2009, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthony-hopkins-will-be-odin-in-kenneth-branagh-s-adaptation-of-marvel-s-thor/516047/1 "2009-11-02T13:57:38Z")
Apparently the movie is progressing. [Anthony Hopkins is currently in negotiations to appear in Kenneth Branagh’s adaptation of Marvel’s Thor](http://geeksofdoom.com/2009/10/29/anthony-hopkins-to-become-odin-in-kenneth-branaghs-thor/) > [@](#): > > The movie will star Chris Hemsworth (Star Trek) as Thor; Tom Hiddleston as his brother and arch-nemesis, Loki; and Natalie Portman (V for Vendetta) in the female lead, Jane Foster. An appearance by Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury is also expected considering the 9-picture deal he signed a while back. Many other big names like Jessica Biel, Robert De Niro, and Jude Law have been rumored, but nothing has been confirmed of them. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2009, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthony-hopkins-will-be-odin-in-kenneth-branagh-s-adaptation-of-marvel-s-thor/516047/2 "2009-11-02T14:02:50Z")
They’re not going to have Vincent d’Onofrio as Thor? I’m disappointed. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2009, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthony-hopkins-will-be-odin-in-kenneth-branagh-s-adaptation-of-marvel-s-thor/516047/3 "2009-11-02T14:11:33Z")
If the announcement was Hopkins as Odin in a movie version of RING OF THE NIBELUNG, I’d be ecstatic! Actually, I guess it would be Wotan, to be accurate. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2009, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthony-hopkins-will-be-odin-in-kenneth-branagh-s-adaptation-of-marvel-s-thor/516047/4 "2009-11-02T14:40:03Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > They’re not going to have Vincent d’Onofrio as Thor? I’m disappointed. He’s tall but he’s pudgy, double chinned and a [graying 40 something.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Vincent_D%27Onofrio_by_David_Shankbone.jpg/424px-Vincent_D%27Onofrio_by_David_Shankbone.jpg)Would he really be the best choice? ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2009, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthony-hopkins-will-be-odin-in-kenneth-branagh-s-adaptation-of-marvel-s-thor/516047/5 "2009-11-02T14:43:48Z")
> [@astro](#): > > He’s tall but he’s pudgy, double chinned and a [graying 40 something.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Vincent_D%27Onofrio_by_David_Shankbone.jpg/424px-Vincent_D%27Onofrio_by_David_Shankbone.jpg)Would he really be the best choice? He is the only Thor there will ever be. [![](http://nerdcityonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/thordonofrio.jpg) ](http://nerdcityonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/thordonofrio.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2009, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthony-hopkins-will-be-odin-in-kenneth-branagh-s-adaptation-of-marvel-s-thor/516047/6 "2009-11-02T14:48:55Z")
Actually, I think [Brian Blessed](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_blessed) would make a better Odin. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2009, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthony-hopkins-will-be-odin-in-kenneth-branagh-s-adaptation-of-marvel-s-thor/516047/7 "2009-11-02T15:05:37Z")
I’m not sure he can grow a beard worthy of that name. I mean, [he looks like](http://images.triplem.com.au/2009/01/29/117602/600x400-anthony-hopkins-creepy-actors-600x400.jpg) old Charles Manson. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2009, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthony-hopkins-will-be-odin-in-kenneth-branagh-s-adaptation-of-marvel-s-thor/516047/8 "2009-11-02T15:52:52Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Actually, I think [Brian Blessed](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_blessed) would make a better Odin. That is my exact sentiment. “HAWKMEN! DIIIIIIIIIIIIIVE!” ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2009, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthony-hopkins-will-be-odin-in-kenneth-branagh-s-adaptation-of-marvel-s-thor/516047/9 "2009-11-02T16:06:27Z")
The only actor who should have been cast as Thor is Alexander Skaarsgaard. That they were too stupid to cast him tells me all that I need to know about this film. ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2009, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthony-hopkins-will-be-odin-in-kenneth-branagh-s-adaptation-of-marvel-s-thor/516047/10 "2009-11-02T16:31:37Z")
Chris Hemsworth was the best thing about the new Star Trek movie (which I rather liked, overall, but he was still the best). So I’ll probably be seeing this movie. Tony Hopkins is another plus, but I think that Natalie Portman probably cancels that out. Wonder if it’ll have Kirby dots? ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2009, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthony-hopkins-will-be-odin-in-kenneth-branagh-s-adaptation-of-marvel-s-thor/516047/11 "2009-11-02T17:16:57Z")
> [@Hypno-Toad](#): > > That is my exact sentiment. > > “HAWKMEN! DIIIIIIIIIIIIIVE!” “Oh well, who wants to live forever?” I agree. I adore Brian Blessed. Remember his as Augustus Caesar in _“I, Claudius”_? ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2009, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthony-hopkins-will-be-odin-in-kenneth-branagh-s-adaptation-of-marvel-s-thor/516047/12 "2009-11-02T17:31:27Z")
Chris Hemsworth seems kinda small to play Thor. I could seem him doing Dr. Blake, maybe…but when he bangs the stick on the ground, he needs to transform into a ripped out 'roid monkey…like, say, Triple H of WWE fame. ---
**Author:** ![Walpurgis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Walpurgis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walpurgis)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2009, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthony-hopkins-will-be-odin-in-kenneth-branagh-s-adaptation-of-marvel-s-thor/516047/13 "2009-11-02T17:36:49Z")
I think Hopkins is a fantastic choice. Odin is pretty close to Hannibal the Cannibal-creepiness in many aspects. I mean, this is the guy who mutilates and sacrifices himself to get access to magic and wisdom. If there was someone you didn’t want to piss off, it was the All-father, for he would come after your _soul_. On a frackin’ eight-legged horse. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2009, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthony-hopkins-will-be-odin-in-kenneth-branagh-s-adaptation-of-marvel-s-thor/516047/14 "2009-11-02T17:58:29Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > He is the only Thor there will ever be. > > [http://nerdcityonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/thordonofrio.jpg](http://nerdcityonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/thordonofrio.jpg) What about [Erik Allen Kramer](http://themoviebar.net/blog3/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/24.jpg)? ---
**Author:** ![Barking\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Barking\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barking_Dog)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2009, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthony-hopkins-will-be-odin-in-kenneth-branagh-s-adaptation-of-marvel-s-thor/516047/15 "2009-11-02T17:58:38Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Actually, I think [Brian Blessed](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_blessed) would make a better Odin. No way. I love the guy too, but he’s no Odin. Heimdall maybe, but Hopkins is certanly the best choice for the SkyFather, hands down. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2009, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthony-hopkins-will-be-odin-in-kenneth-branagh-s-adaptation-of-marvel-s-thor/516047/16 "2009-11-02T18:42:16Z")
Yeah, Brian Blessed is all wrong for Oðin. Oðin isn’t a brassy blustering guy. He’s gloomy and poetic. He’s a wanderer, a trickster, a blood-brother to Loki. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2009, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthony-hopkins-will-be-odin-in-kenneth-branagh-s-adaptation-of-marvel-s-thor/516047/17 "2009-11-02T19:38:11Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > The only actor who should have been cast as Thor is Alexander Skaarsgaard. That they were too stupid to cast him tells me all that I need to know about this film. No kidding. [I Watch Stuff](http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2009/03/man_who_is_obviously_already_t.php) reported that he was being courted for the role back in March and he would have been an excellent choice. I’m not interested in seeing the movie with someone else playing Thor. ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2009, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthony-hopkins-will-be-odin-in-kenneth-branagh-s-adaptation-of-marvel-s-thor/516047/18 "2009-11-02T20:47:06Z")
> [@Lightray](#): > > Chris Hemsworth was the best thing about the new Star Trek movie (which I rather liked, overall, but he was still the best). So I’ll probably be seeing this movie. Tony Hopkins is another plus, but I think that Natalie Portman probably cancels that out. You liked the new Star Trek movie and the thing you liked best was the guy who died in the first five minutes? ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2009, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthony-hopkins-will-be-odin-in-kenneth-branagh-s-adaptation-of-marvel-s-thor/516047/19 "2009-11-02T21:22:50Z")
> [@Push\_You\_Down](#): > > You liked the new Star Trek movie and the thing you liked best was the guy who died in the first five minutes? It was the best performance, so… yes?