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EXCLUSIVE: Director Patty Jenkins is leaving Thor 2. Best known for directing Charlize Theron to an Oscar in Monster and the pilot of AMC’s The Killing, Jenkins had been set to helm the film in late September. I’m told that Marvel Studios is already talking to agencies as it canvasses for a new director, something that is expected to happen quickly. Her exit had to do with creative differences, but the feeling is that she’ll probably end up working on one of these superhero films, but perhaps not on a sequel. Marvel will have to move fast because it has to meet a November 15, 2013 release date for the sequel, which brings back Chris Hemsworth as the hammer-wielding superhero, and Thor co-writer Don Payne is writing the script. The Kenneth Branagh-directed original grossed $448 million worldwide and launched the star of Hemsworth, who reprised Thor in The Avengers and then played the latter title role opposite Kristen Stewart and Charlize Theron in Snow White and the Huntsman for Universal.
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July? I thought they actually pushed the release out to November…
This was never gonna work. It’s one thing to have Kenneth Branagh direct your movie and want to go art-house with it because he has experience directing big budgets. But why anyone at Marvel thought the director of killing -a TV show – and monster – a small movie – was a good choice is beyond me. Creatively it makes sense. But fiscally not so much
No, these bets have high rates of success, it recently worked great with Planet of the apes, Rupert Wyatt was anything but experienced with big budgets.
And the alternative, hiring some experienced, expensive guy, has often backfired.
I am glad studios actually make these bets on unknown people. Hats to them!
I couldn’t agree more.
And how about those idiots who hired Christopher Nolan to reboot Batman after art films Memento and Insomnia! Were they nuts? How could he have the vision to do a big budget super hero picture after little character pieces?
Damn straight, Brett Ratner should do all the big movies in Hollywood.
Insomnia was a $46mil movie. That’s almost six times the budget of Monster ($8mil), which is only on par with Memento ($9mil). Your comparison simply doesn’t compute.
What, you a robot or something?
You’re an idiot. Those movies were amazing thanks to Nolan.
its called sarcasm dude.
Detecting sarcasm isn’t really your strong point, is it?
correct! you are so right! great comment! what was that guy smoking?
They get directors who have only did small indies to direct big budget blockbusters all the time! That’s been the trend! No one has ever doubted these men either. They in fact like that a director of great arthouse films gets assigned to popcorn movies because it adds a name of quality to the project. It’s because it’s a woman that people think it’s a strange fit and that it can’t be done. Pure sexism.
I hear Kevin Feige is meeting with Atom Egoyan tomorrow and Jim Jarmusch Thursday.
Friday is the Duplass Brothers and Lena Dunham.
I hear they’re bringing in Joe Swanberg and making it THOR 2: MUMBLETHOR
Good one.
If this doesn’t work out, he lans to throw some serious money at Bela Tarr to make him forget about that retirement. (Although kidding aside, I would totally watch Thor 2 if a serious out there choice got the directing gig, just to see how they would handle it.)
‘I hope this doesn’t delay the movie b/c I am really excited to see it!’ – No One
Exactly NO ONE! Probably only around $448 million dollars worth of no one right?
I hear Klein/Hartstein wrote something she likes.
just let joss do all of these please. that is all.
Best news I’ve heard all day. Thank god. Anyone really surprised?
I knew a female directing a big budget action sequel was too good to be true. Guess they’ll go with a stereotypical male director and produce a stereotypical sequel….of course.
Yeah, because Lexi Alexander did such a great job with the Punisher sequel.
Idiot. Sex has nothing to do with it. Plus 95% of all comic book fans are dudes, so who’s their target audience again?
that statistic is just flat out wrong, and waaaaaaaay off. Thor, the most chick flicky CBM ever, clearly wasn’t targeted at mostly men.
Not comic book fans. If only comic book fans went to see these movies, they would be deemed failures (e.g. Watchmen)
You claim that “sex has nothing to do with it,” then go to imply that only a man can make a good comic based films because they target young men. A good filmmaker is NOT defined by gender. Stupidity at its finest.
Yeah, heard Wim Wenders and Claude Lelouch are in the mix too!
Nah, they passed. Marvel’s out to Stan Brackage and Kenneth Anger.
Kenneth Anger’s on Doctor Strange.
I would watch Kenneth Anger’s Dr. Strange. That’s an idea I can get behind!
Maya Deren – FEMALE director. Done!
Marvel should just get Joss to do it.
dammit I was really looking forward to having a woman at the helm. The first Thor was already so refreshingly free of sexist portrayals, I should have known this was too good to be true.
Thats good news imho. As I have said before PJ ia an unproven director. Monster was basically a re-enacted documentary and anytime a hot actress makes herself ugly and gives a decent performance they win an Oscar, so no credit to PJ on that either. I’ll tell you exactly what the creative differences were…she thought she was gonna have a degree of creative control and the studio wanted a lapdog.
If you know Patty, she’s no lap dog. She’s also very talented, and writing off MONSTER as a re-enacted doc is ridiculous. Typical slam female directors deal with all the time. Kimmy Pearce’s BOYS DON’T CRY was only good because Swank morphed into a boy. MONSTER was only good because Charlize morphed into an unrecognizable character. How about giving the director some credit for, you know, DIRECTING a powerful film and lead performance? Patty is choosy about what she does, but to call her unproven or unworthy of this gig is ridiculous. Seth Gordon (and 500 other male directors) made quicker leaps to big budget films than this (hell, Seth went from one doc, THE KING OF KONG, to FOUR CHRISTMASES–show me any women who get a pass to the head of the line like that). Patty is about quality, not quantity, and she’s also a strong and good person. My two cents.
Thank you. Only Roger Ebert seemed to truly appreciate that film in the way it deserved. He put the film at the top of his list for the year and it made his best of the decade list. It features some of the most powerful acting ever and great directorial choices. Because the acting is done by a beautiful actress, people brush it off as hot woman uglying up. Because it’s directed by a woman, it’s automatically television movie material or a documentary. Yet a man like Darren Aronofsky directs a film like The Wrestler and everything about it is raved as a sensation.
What about Bill Condon — he’s into schlock.
Heard the current frontrunners are Harmony Korine and Larry Clark
Bring back Kenneth! He totally rocked the first movie!
Please no more Dutch Angles.
Great News! I’d really love it if Kenneth Branagh directed the second one! I love his directorial style and I would love to see it used again in a sequel.
The Shakespearean angle worked!
Marvel is such a successful studio BECAUSE they work with directors that are relatively unknown quantities (then there’s the fact that they are also cheaper). Kenneth Branagh never did anything on the scale of Thor (and I don’t include Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein), yet it is the most successful film of his career so far.
Sometimes such an approach misfires (Ang Lee’s Hulk, which is aging really, really well, btw) but when it works (Jon Favreau, who’s biggest film up to that point, special-effects wise, was Zathura) it really, really works.
I am glad you are beginning to appreciate Ang Lees Hulk, its a great comic adaptation. The difference between PJ and the other directors you mentioned is not so much budget and scale but that they had legitimate bodies of work behind them. PJ has one feature to her credit.
The first Hulk is incredibly underrated and incomparable to the mess that is The Incredible Hulk.
Michael Haneke or GTFO!
LOL.
Bring back Kenneth Branagh
This may sound crazy…
Julie Taymor?
Yeah, it sounds crazy because it is.
I don’t care about Hurt Locker, I thought that was TERRIBLE. Women directing movies for men just DOESN’T work.
Making THE HULK expand to the size of King Kong was a good idea, but making his pants grow along with him was ridiculous!
Best comment yet!
(My comment was re: Swanberg/MUMBLETHOR)
Having Joss do it would be awesome though doesn’t he have no time with The Avengers, Cabin in the woods and the shakespeare adaptation coming out. He is super busy.