Thor: The Dark World

While many of the Marvel Studios headlines lately have centered on the home video discharge of The Avengers, casting reports for Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Robert Downey Jr. going back to the set of Ironman 3 after a personal injury, the most mysterious sequel from the bunch is currently shooting in the united kingdom.

We’re of course talking about Thor: The Dark World, a movie we didn’t know much about - officially speaking - until today. Actually, we unofficially had a very good idea of what to expect in the basic outline of next year’s cosmic Marvel film.


Marvel Studios and Disney world Studios Motion Pictures has finally released the state synopsis for Thor: The Dark World:

The 2nd and third paragraphs listing the talent behind the film contain information which has all been released previously as official. The very first paragraph, offering the first official description from the plot however, is totally new, and confirms lots of what we’ve reported and theorized about.

The “ancient race” refers (a minimum of in part) to the Dark Elves of of Svartalfheim, whom Malekith the Accursed (Christopher Eccleston) leads.

Because of casting calls for extras and recent descriptions of concept art, we all know Thor: The Dark World can have moviegoers not just Asgard, Earth and Svartalheim, but potentially all the nine realms from Norse Mythology. While Thor might not step foot on many of these worlds, we can expect to discover them.

But Ironman 3 director Shane Black and Thor: The Dark World director Alan Taylor probably knew as soon as The Avengers was changed into 3D that their films could be next, and hopefully they have been accounting for it around the set. There's no 3D yet announced for Marvel's other upcoming films Captain America: The Winter Soldier or Guardians from the Galaxy, but unless this trend dies off dramatically over the following year, we can probably expect these to be next.