Behind the Scenes
Director
Kenneth BranaghWhen Marvel announced that Kenneth Branagh would be directing the Thor movie, it earned more than a few raised eyebrows. Branagh? The guy who taught us not to be afraid of William Sh...
Screenwriter
Ashley Edward Miller, Zack Stentz, and Don PayneMakes Sense Out of a MessThere are three names on the final script for Thor, but IMDB lists six other names accredited with this bad boy…which is H...
Production Studio
Marvel StudiosParamount Pictures technically distributed the film, and Disney owns the rights to the Marvel character—but Thor never left his home. Marvel Studios, created in the 1990s to help pu...
Production Design
Digital FilmThor arrived when Hollywood was seriously falling in love with 3D. (Giant take-all-your-money monster hits like Avatar and Alice in Wonderland will do that for you.) That meant filming...
Music (Score)
Patrick DoyleHitchcock had Bernard Herrmann. Spielberg had John Williams. And Kenneth Branagh has Patrick Doyle…the good-luck music charm from the early days who has never left his side.Doyle was...
Fandoms
It Started with the ComicsThor first appeared in Journey into Mystery #83. This bad boy was written in August 1962, which placed him right at the heart of Marvel's Silver Age Renaissance. He got in...