Thor Screws Loki Yet Again
Because this weekend’s casting announcement of Kirk-daddy Chris Hemsworth as Thor in the upcoming Thor movie got all the attention (including from TR), and now the news that British actor Tom Hiddleston will play his evil trickster god/half-brother Loki has just kind of slunk out there. Hiddleston has won awards for his portrayals of people in very British shows and movies you’ve never seen, so this is seemingly a good choice. He’s also done some Shakespeare, which Branagh surely approves of.
Or perhaps this is all part of Loki/Hiddleston’s diabolical plan to make us think he’s a good choice. Just like Loki has sent TR commenter 8den to try and convince us that Branagh isn’t directing the film any more. Thor‘s been postponed until 2011, buddy — I think he’s got time to make that little Swedish whatever-it-is.
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.