Kenneth Branagh On Sharing Marvel's Universe

BRANAGH should be on THE AVENGERS!

Awesome find @ Hawks! ; )

Intruder- Branagh would have upstaged Hopkins as Odin, with both hands tied. He's that damn good. Hopkins was a good Odin, but i felt he didn't nail it as much as i had hoped. I'm sure Branagh would have. The man exudes passion for his work like none other, where as Hopkins brings massive intensity no doubt, but without oozing out as much passion i find. He's always passionate about his work for certain, he just doesn't translate it to me as much as Branagh does. When i watch Hopkins in a role, i feel he keeps his passion for himself. But that's just my opinion.

I would love to see spidey swing around and run into Thor or Iron man.

@Intruder, when did Marvel get Namor back? I must have missed that memo

i just hope each of the directors' egos won't get in the way, as time moves on... i'm still curious who would they pick, if they decide to do another Hulk solo movie?
how about Guillermo del Toro?? he's pretty good in the weirds and monsters...

@Rosso, A fan boycott won't get us anywhere because we make up such a small percentage of the viewers. I really wish there was something they could work out. Maybe even not have the characters on screen together but just mentioned. The Daily Bugle can exist in the MCU. There can be newspapers in the Spider-man movies that show MCU characters on the front page. Would that really kill anyone?
If only they could have worked out a deal to let Hugh Jackman cameo as an unnamed soldier in Captain America. It would have been a win-win. Why, oh why could they do it?!!!

I have often wondered though if their is a way in which a collaborative deal could be worked out between the big studio houses.

But then would it be seen as cannon? Would there be a point? If Marvel Studios doesn't have complete creative control it could proove awkward for future projects?

Orphix: Marvel Studios still have relatively small budgets to work with. That's not true at all. I have been reading peoples comments saying that and that is not the case. I reported last year that Marvels film budgets will be restructured to include "big budget films" $150 mil and over or "mid budget to small budget films" $50 mil and under, no middle of the road stuff for them.

Intruder- I did love hopkins in Thor. In fact, i think as a whole, it was his best performance yet. But i don't know how to describe it, i feel like his performances, as believable as they are, are kinda... i dunno, "cold" might be a good word to describe them. It's like, there's nothing... "extra", that comes out at me from them, except his unshakable talent of course. When i see him angry, i don't see the fire burning through his angre. I just see an angry man, believably angry yes, yet just angry. For example, the scene where he yelled out a gruntlike "HEYRGH" at Loki for speaking out of place in regards to Thor's actions... well both me and my girlfriend were giggling our asses off, as silently as we possibly could, since we didn't want to disturb everyone else in the theater LOL That reaction really shouldn't have happened in that very serious scene. Branagh has the ability to let transpire such a genuine passion through him instead of just acting the emotion. It's like i can see him go the "extra" mile where very few actors can, no matter how talented and experienced they are. You can't really learn that, but all this is again merely my opinion. I'm sure it's relative to the beholder ;)

Hawksblueeyes @ I hear what you're saying BUT relatively speaking they are a small studio. Hence the reason they can only make one or two films a year.

They are not in the same league as one of the big 6 who can churn out many films (including a large number of blockbusters) a year.

However since they have been bought up by Disney they can be seen as a subsidary studio much like Fox Searchlight is to Fox or Sony Pictures Classics is to Sony. This certainly gives them the bigger budgets for the one or two films they do. But they still have to pay their way - which so far they are managing to do. :o)

Intruder- Yeah, i gotta give you that one. He was splendid as Hannibal where he brillantly does display the passion i was speaking of. I've probably seen both Silence and it's sequel only once each, which is why i never remember him by those. I've seen Mask of Zorro so many times since i love the [frick] out of it, so i always remember him from that one instead. And then there are his other performances in between like The Edge, Instinct and plenty of others where he's just "good" but not spectacular to me as much, where i'm sure his fans would surely disagree. In Thor, he had a similar performance to the one he had in Zorro, but slightly better.

This guy is reponsible for the greatest and my fav marvel movie to date, yes he should be in the avengers lol Thor was frikkin sick

Intruder- Hahahahahahaha!!! Good one! That actually made me chuckle out loud in the office LOL But yeah, i get what you're saying. I may not comment a lot, but i sure do read a lot of comments LOL ;)

I don't want Marvel to get the rights back to X-Men or Spider-Man. They have enough characters to worry about and adding Spider-Man and the X-Men to their slate of movies would just take away from the other characters they have. I'd rather Fox make X-Men movies, Sony make Spider-Man movies, and Marvel focus on theirs. It would also lower the chances of getting Marvel to do lesser known characters like Doctor Strange, Guardians of the Galaxy, Namor, or Runaways.

Not a huge Hopkins fan. Having said that, his performance sent chills up my spine at times.

"You are unworthy of your title, and I’ll take from you your power! In the name of my father, and his father before him, I cast you out!"

"You are a vain, greedy, cruel boy."

good stuff. and Hemsworth kept up with him.

Ghostt- Yeah, Hemsworth really impressed me in this. IMO, he was definitely the best performer of the bunch.

ELgUaSoN- Well... that depends. You see, when i yell at my kids because i'm angry at what they said or did, i'm pretty much on the mark for what words i use. But whenever i do stumble out non-words, i kinda snicker at myself. So that scene to me was hillarious LOL

Stop using that lamo poster! This is much better. Show the Hulk in all huis greatness !~!!

paulyd3: I made it, I'll use it whenever I damnwell want to.

@ Shammy & Truedy: Personally I think Tom Hiddleston upstaged the lot of them!

I mean there was a lot of great talent, and some amazing acting. But that guy that played Loki just struck me as being amazingly natural. he seemed "gifted" so to speak.

I would like to see him in more movies

@juggernaut

agreed. Hiddleston was amazing without doing much. bright future there. for him and Hemsworth