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Natalie Portman Ticked About Firing Of 'Thor 2' Director
Recently it was reported that director Patty Jenkins ('Monster') had left Marvel's 'Thor 2' over "creative differences." The preliminary reports made it seem as if the decision was entirely hers, but now it appears that may not have been the case. Sources close to the film are now indicating that Jenkins was actually fired without warning; something not sitting well with the film's co-star Natalie Portman ('Black Swan,' 'Thor'). Portman has been voicing her outrage over Jenkins dismissal, which bugs her especially as she was the one who encouraged the studio to hire Jenkins. In fact, Portman had evidently been toying with the idea of taking a leave from acting for a while and only agreed to be in the superhero sequel because the studio agreed to hire Jenkins. Marvel is hoping to smooth things over by including Portman in the search for Jenkins' replacement. No word on how Portman feels about Marvel's top prospects Daniel Minahan and Alan Taylor. So why was Jenkins fired? There seems to be nothing but speculation at this point, but the prevailing issue seems to be that Marvel was concerned that she would not finish the film on time. Despite Portman's ire, she is contractually obligated to remain on the film so it is unlikely that this situation will lead to her departure.
'Thor 2' is beginning to seem like a deeply troubled production, something that never bodes well for a film's quality. It's distressing to hear that Jenkins was fired and did not actually quit, and the idea that the studio will now grudgingly allow an actor to be involved in the hiring process for a replacement is less than encouraging. It's also difficult to understand how the studio had any inkling that Jenkins would not be able to finish the movie on time when the script isn't even ready yet; the studio called for a rewrite of Don Payne's original screenplay that has yet to surface. One thing that bothers me about this story, and the overall coverage of the 'Thor 2' situation, is that these news outlets keep insinuating that Jenkins would have been the first woman to helm a superhero film. This is apparently a major reason for Portman's displeasure over Jenkins' firing. Everyone seems to keep forgetting that 2008's 'Punisher: War Zone' was directed by a woman: Lexi Alexander. The quality of 'P:WZ' notwithstanding, I can't figure out why the fact that a woman has already directed a superhero film, a Marvel one at that, is being ignored. In any event, 'Thor 2' seems to be navigating some rather stormy weather.
As of right now, 'Thor 2' is scheduled to be released in November of 2013
Source: THR
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Comment by demonknight on December 20, 2011 at 12:38am -
As long as they write a good script, I really don't care who directs the fucking film, just come up with a great story so the movie dosen't suck, thats all !!!!
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Comment by roger dien on December 19, 2011 at 10:36am -
i loved punisher: war zone, it was the good one of the 3 punishers. and coincidently that punisher played volstag in thor.
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Comment by Mouse on December 18, 2011 at 10:46am -
I really liked Thor...after seeing the deleted scenes...i liked Thor even more.
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Comment by Luke Hero on December 18, 2011 at 8:36am -
I love Portman, but she better watch her mouth or she'll get dumped too....Not like the film really needs her....
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Comment by Jordan Monroe on December 17, 2011 at 8:18pm
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hopefully with the new director she'll kill off portmans character and let thor kick ass like he was suppose to. the first film was a boring cheesy badly directed generic love story with the main character happening to be thor. IT SUCKED!!!!
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Comment by Jose Neveready on December 16, 2011 at 2:19pm
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kate bigelow's carreer have all been macho flicks, a la Point Break, which in turn spawned a whole franchise, we know as Fast and the Furious. The Hurt Locker is the ultimate in the war in Iraq films, certainly better than Green Zone, which was directed by a man, the same guy who directed the last two Bourne flicks.
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Comment by Happy Birthday Roboto on December 16, 2011 at 1:03pm -
I spent some time researching female film directors online, I spoke too soon when I said there are no competent female film directors, there are many good female film directors as it turns out, the problem is that they typically don't make standout films.
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Comment by Happy Birthday Roboto on December 16, 2011 at 9:45am
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@Fungusmonkey
I'm being genuine when I say this, but I have a lot of time for anyone who wants to make the case for female directors and and willing to listen as it's something I'd like to know a lot more about.
But to be fair, I have only watched the first half of Hurt Locker (that I got for Christmas last year!) and wasn't really impressed, Sofia Coppola's Virgin Suicides was good, but I was not impressed with Lost In Translation and I thought that Christian Bale's performance was amazing in American Psycho but the film itself was dull and kind of directionless!
To be fair a lot of this is a matter of opinion but so far I don't really see these as examples of good films, however I need to revisit some of them and watch others for the first time, I've never heard of Real Genius and should check it out.
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Staff Comment by Fungusmonkey on December 16, 2011 at 9:21am -
@Happy Birthday Roboto - How much time do you have? The comedy genre is rife with great female directors (Martha Coolidge's 'Real Genius' is one of my all-time favorite comedies ever, Penny Marshall's work like 'Big', 'A League of their Own', her eps of 'United States of Tara', etc). People love to bash on 'Hurt Locker' (even though personally I thought it deserved the Oscar and then some), but there's no denying that Kathryn Bigelow is great at directing actors (FFS, her work with Swayze and Reeves on Point Break is what catapulted Keanu into being an actual legitimate star - something he's rarely lived up to since IMO). Mary Harron made 'American Psycho' and 'Notorious Bettie Page'... Sofia Coppola's 'Virgin Suicides' and 'Lost in Translation' were both well made... I mean, even if you just wanted to get stereotypical and look at the romcom genre there are still nuggets of gold like Nora Ephron who basically defined the modern genre with things like 'Sleepless in Seattle' and 'You've Got Mail'.
There are a lot of them out there, they just don't seem to get high-profile gigs like their male counterparts.
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Comment by Knight7sk on December 16, 2011 at 8:15am -
Punisher: War Zone was directed by a woman?!?
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