Captain America: Civil War, though billed as aCaptain Americamovie, was more or less anAvengersmovie. Many jokingly called itAvengers 2.5. Some members of the team did have to sit the big brawl out, though. Namely Thor and Hulk. It turns out that because he wasn’t included,Chris Hemsworththought he’d actually been fired from his role as Thor.
The actor recently spoke withEntertainment Weeklyabout his upcoming movieThor: Ragnarok, his third solo movie as the God of Thunder. In his mind, that movie wasn’t even going to happen. At least not with him, since he didn’t get to duke it out with some of the other Marvel superheroes inCaptain America: Civil War. Luckily he wasn’t right, but it is kind of funny to think that someone so beloved by Marvel fans even had to have that thought. Here is what he had to say about it.
“I was like, ‘What? Are we being fired?’ Marvel quickly reassured us, ‘No you guys have got your own journey going on, and in order for that to work you can’t be a part of this one.’ Look, it turned out just perfect because we got to do a whole different kind of thing we wouldn’t have been able to do otherwise.”
We haven’t seenThor 3yet, but based on everything we have seen, it seems like ultimately including Thor and Hulk in that movie instead might have been a better idea. Not only that, but having a literal God and an indestructible rage monster on the respectiveCivil Warteams might have made things a bit less interesting. Plus,Thor: Ragnarokis finally going to be delivering on thePlanet Hulkaction that fans have been craving for a very long time. Here is the official synopsis forThor: Ragnarok.
“Thor is imprisoned on the other side of the universe without his mighty hammer and finds himself in a race against time to get back to Asgard to stop Ragnarok, the destruction of his homeworld and the end of Asgardian civilization, at the hands of an all-powerful new threat, the ruthlessHela. But first he must survive a deadly gladatorial contest that pits him against his former ally and fellow Avenger,The Incredible Hulk!”
Not only are we getting what looks to be a greatThormovie as a result ofChris Hemsworthnot being included inCaptain America: Civil War, but we also got the excellentTeam Thorshort that showed what Thor was doing during the events of that movie. As we all know, he was hanging out with his human roommate Darryl. The short did so well, in fact, that Marvel included aTeam Thor: Part 2short on theDoctor StrangeBlu-ray release.
In addition toThor: Ragnarok, we will also see the God of Thunder alongside his superhero allies inAvengers: Infinity Warand the untitledAvengers 4. The cast for the movie includesChris Hemsworth,Tom Hiddleston,Benedict Cumberbatch,Cate Blanchett,Anthony Hopkins,Idris Elba,Jaimie Alexander,Tessa Thompson,Karl Urban,Jeff Goldblum,Sam NeillandMark Ruffalo.Thor: Ragnarokis directed byTaika Waititiand is set for release on November 3.
