Hela was the leader of Asgard's armies, conquering the Nine Realms with Odin, but Odin imprisoned her and wrote her out of history after fearing that she had become too ambitious and powerful.
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Odin explains that he is dying, Ragnarök is imminent despite Thor's efforts to prevent it, and his passing will free his firstborn child, Hela, from a prison she was sealed in long ago. After exposing Loki, Thor forces him to help find their father, and with directions from Stephen Strange at the Sanctum Sanctorum in New York City, they locate Odin in Norway. Thor returns to Asgard to find Heimdall gone and his estranged brother Loki posing as Odin. Thor frees himself, defeats Surtur and takes his crown, believing he has prevented Ragnarök. He explains that the realm will soon be destroyed during the prophesied Ragnarök, once Surtur unites his crown with the Eternal Flame that burns in Odin's vault. Two years after the battle of Sokovia, Thor is imprisoned by the fire demon Surtur, who reveals that Thor's father Odin is no longer on Asgard. A sequel, Thor: Love and Thunder, is scheduled for release on July 8, 2022. It grossed $854 million, becoming the highest-grossing film of the trilogy and the ninth-highest-grossing film of 2017. The film received praise for its acting and Waititi's direction, as well as the action sequences and humor, with many critics considering it to be the best installment of the Thor films. Thor: Ragnarok premiered in Los Angeles on October 10, 2017, and was released in the United States on November 3, 2017, as part of Phase Three of the MCU. Principal photography took place in Brisbane and Sydney, Australia, with the film also having exclusive use of Village Roadshow Studios in Oxenford, concluding in October 2016. The rest of the cast, including Blanchett as Hela, was confirmed in May 2016, with Pearson's involvement revealed at the start of filming that July. Ruffalo joined the cast reprising the role of Hulk from previous MCU films, which allowed elements of the 2006 comic storyline " Planet Hulk" to be adapted for Ragnarok. Waititi joined the film as director a year later, after Thor: The Dark World director Alan Taylor chose not to return. The involvement of Hemsworth and Hiddleston was announced that October. In Thor: Ragnarok, Thor must escape the alien planet Sakaar in time to save Asgard from Hela (Blanchett) and the impending Ragnarök.Ī third Thor film was confirmed in January 2014, when Kyle and Yost began work on the screenplay. The film was directed by Taika Waititi from a screenplay by Eric Pearson and the writing team of Craig Kyle and Christopher Yost, and stars Chris Hemsworth as Thor alongside Tom Hiddleston, Cate Blanchett, Idris Elba, Jeff Goldblum, Tessa Thompson, Karl Urban, Mark Ruffalo, and Anthony Hopkins. It is the sequel to Thor (2011) and Thor: The Dark World (2013), and the 17th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). It was purely based on his friendship with Hemsworth that he came and did this.Thor: Ragnarok is a 2017 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Thor, produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. What an awesome thing, for him to come down here for his friend. I just met him for the first time last night. What a testament to, I just met him for the first time, I wasn’t there when he shot this.
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We have pictures that maybe we’ll share some day of Tom Hiddleston in a full Loki outfit standing next to Matt Damon in full Loki outfit. He’s flying down.” The next thing I know, Matt Damon is on set in a full Loki costume, full Loki wig. Hemsworth goes, “Well what if I ask my friend Matt?” I said, “Matt who?” He said, “My friend, Matt Damon.” “Okay. So who could be Loki? Who could be Loki? Who could be Loki? We didn’t have any brilliant ideas. There was a fun idea of “Let’s get Luke Hemsworth to play Thor,” Taika had worked with Sam Neill in Hunt for the Wilderpeople.
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They did a similar thing where they had a stage play with some events from other episodes, not that we were like, “Oh crap.” But then it’s different enough. We then watched whatever was the season before last Game of Thrones. There was this idea to do it in this funny sort of stage play which Loki/Odin had put on to celebrate himself. So that when it was revealed that he was Odin, it would make some semblance of sense to people who weren’t following along from all the films.
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I don’t remember if it was our writer, Eric Pearson’s or if it was Taika ’s or if it was our executive producer, Brad Winderbaum to bring the audience up to speed on the fact that everybody thinks Loki is dead. It's possible but it's more likely because Matt Damon and Chris Hemsworth are friends.