Just Who Are Thor's Warriors?
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The week has ended without Thor fans finding out who Stellan Skarsgard is playing, but we have a hint as to who else might be appearing in Kenneth Branagh's film. SpoilerTV, who have stumbled on many a casting hint lately, have posted an alleged casting call for "Warriors." The requirements are stern, as befits residents and foes of Asgard: "A fearless warrior race, where size, strength and ferocity define a member's rank in both the social and military hierarchy. Warriors born in this society face the harshest ecological conditions imaginable and thrive in environments where lesser creatures, including humans, quickly perishes. Theirs is a world created to cull weakness from the universe to ensure their supreme sovereignty spreads across the stars. MUST BE 6'2 OR TALLER sptv050769, NO BODYBUILDER TYPES. SAG ROLE BUT NO LINES. MUST BE COMFORTABLE WEARING PROSTHETICS."At the word "Warriors" my brain stopped, and I thought it was a casting call for the Warriors Three. But those three badasses are quite distinct personalities, and none of them would need prosthetics other than the extremely large Volstagg. It's clearly not them.
The key phrase here would appear to be "their supreme sovereignty spreads across the stars." Is this a casting call for the Skrulls? You can't really get any more militaristic and conquest driven than these guys, and one definitely needs prosthetics to pull them off. But what the heck would Skrulls be doing in Thor? Even Loki hasn't had much to do with those creeps until recently. The obvious answer would be to have them come in and set up The Avengers, but with two villains and two love interests, you'd think there was enough crazy to go around. Anyone out there have a better guess as to who our prosthetic-heavy warriors might be?
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10-09-2009 @ 9:30AM
mike said...
I am not an internet troll and I'm not trying to prove you wrong because you probably know much more than I do about these movies. But in my opinion after reading the full Skrull Invasion last year I would say that they weren't talking about Skrulls but rather the Kree. Skrulls aren't described as warrior more like deviants and reptilian. Kree are a warrior race who have reached their evolutionary peak. The Kree are the skrulls mortal enemies, so maybe this still has something to do with the Skrulls in the Marvel movie series. The original Avengers(Thor, Cap America, Iron Man) were involved in the Kree-Skrull War, and that would be insane if they were setting a Kree-Skrull war for the Avengers movie, but I doubt it.
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10-09-2009 @ 2:24AM
David said...
I'm guessing the thing about the stars is just figurative. The prosthetics, the bit about size being important, and the part about harsh ecological conditions make me think they're talking about Frost Giants. Loki is actually a Frost Giant in the comics and in the mythology they're based one so it would make sense to bring them in.
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10-09-2009 @ 8:09AM
Trip said...
Theyre probably just casting for Asgardian extras, nothing to get worked up about.
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