![]() ![]() Natalie Portman, so under-used as Foster in previous instalments, will return to the role in the new episode.īale is being mooted to play Thor’s uncle Cul, otherwise known as the god of fear, as Marvel continues to expand the boundaries of the Norse deity’s extended family following the debut of Cate Blanchett as his nefarious sister Hela in Thor: Ragnarok. How that affect’s Hemsworth’s role – in the comics he is reduced to the role of “Odinson” – remains to be seen. Marvel is also borrowing tantalisingly from the daring 2014 comic book storyline Original Sin, in which Thor’s human, cancer-suffering sometime-partner Jane Foster takes up the hammer Mjölnir and becomes the new Thor. Thor himself handed the mantle of king of Asgard to Tessa Thompson’s Valkyrie at the end of the latter movie, which means the known cosmos is suddenly his infinite oyster. Taika Waititi’s Thor: Ragnarok reinvigorated Chris Hemsworth’s son of Odin, playing brilliantly on the Australian actor’s newfound comedy chops and establishing him as the kind of freewheeling cosmic adventurer that the Guardians of the Galaxy might easily find themselves bumping into (they duly did in Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame). But it’s undoubtedly a fabulous time for Bale to be joining the Marvel series. ![]() This may not be the Sean Connery-style latter day return to playing Batman that fans of Nolan’s triptych would love to see – Robert Pattinson looks a shoo-in to retain the role for at least the next few movies after signing on for Matt Reeves’ The Batman. In many ways, it is a self-sacrificing turn worthy of Batman himself: he is the eternal straight man to a cavalcade of sneering, leering villains who gleefully mop up all available attention.Ĭate Blanchett played Hela as a slinky, gothic, all-powerful queen of the underworld in Thor: Ragnarok. Throughout Nolan’s trilogy of films, Bale seems to slip in and out of the shadows at the optimum moment – always there to drive the narrative but never overpowering the storyline. It is to Christian Bale’s credit that he remains by far the most celebrated Batman despite employing an eloquently taciturn approach to the role: always at the centre of the action, yet never crowding the mise-en-scène. Michael Keaton, not previously known for soft-pedalled subtlety on screen, knew that Jack Nicholson’s Joker would get all the great lines in 1989’s Batman, and Heath Ledger stole the show so completely as the clown prince of Gotham in 2008’s The Dark Knight that some of us wondered privately if Christopher Nolan ought to have renamed the movie. Marvel has been able to lure lots of legendary top-tier talent into their films, so it will be interesting to see if they can actually land Bale.It is something of an irony that the role of Batman, while being perhaps the most sought after in comic book movies, requires its vessel to downplay any showy tendencies to capture the enigmatic spirit of DC’s caped crusader. Unless the character starts out as a villain, which is unlikely. The report says that the only descriptors on the casting breakdown their sources came across explain Bale's character as "otherworldly.” There are no other details on who his character could be ,so this being the Marvel universe, there are a ton of possibilities.īale still isn’t officially locked into the role, but this will be the main villain of the story. ![]() While I would love to see Bale bring this character to life, a new report from The Illuminerdi is saying that Bale will instead be playing an intergalactic villain in the story. When we first learned that Christian Bale was in talks to join Marvel’s Thor: Love and Thunder, the fans went wild speculating that he could be playing Beta Ray Bill.
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