Idris Elba's Agent reacts To Heimdall Casting

@ Anil Rickly
You just used the word "negro" and you expect to still be taken seriously..?

Elba is just doing his job, leave him alone. Personally I was hoping Tyler Mane would get the part but let's see what happens, Elba is a great actor.

@SirPrize

his not pulling a Sharpton and his not trying to get publicity. he must of been confronted by some racist or he read online i.e. IMDB about some people are upest about a black man playing heimdall.

@Anil Rickly

he still could play Sif brother since we dont even know Sif and Heimdall parents also they could be adopted. you got to remember Kenneth Branagh always cast people of different race anyway have you seen "Much Ado About Nothing" directed by Kenneth Branagh. it had Denzel Washington and Keanu Reeves as brothers.

@Anil Rickly

Jaimie and Elba are contracted to not give any info about the storyline on twitter she cant tell you if they are siblings or not. she can say she finished filming or say her costume for thor is amazing but can not give you too much info before she get sue or blacklisted.

Kenneth Branagh wont say anything cause his busy filming Thor. if they not brother and sister well thats not a big deal cause in Norse mythology they aint brother and sister the first place.

arghhhh this topic again!!!

Why does it matter so much to people?!? Eartha Kitt played Freya in Terry Jones's "Erik the Viking." The actual Vikings traded amber with the cultures of the Mediterranean and the Middle East, so were no strangers to people with brown skin. Jack Kirby himself was a pioneer in introducing black heroes in his various groups of alien gods for Marvel and DC. Get over it.

Also, there is only one race, Homo sapiens sapiens.

Lol...ok carribean soul.

Tom Cruise played a white samurai.

Daniel Day Lewis played the Last of the Mohicans ...

that is to say that in the Last Samurai they did not try to pass off Tom Cruise as Japanese (which would have looked as ridiculous as Idris Elba playing a viking god) or Daniel Day Lewis as a Mohican native tribes member (which,again, would look as ridiculous as Idris Elba playing a norse god).

AngusMac : None of us seen the film yet so we really can't say how ridiculous it will look. Thor does not look ridiculous neither the Destroyer. I wonder what Heimdall will look like? I can't speak out of assuming that he will look ridiculous for I know nothing about the film. Only the two pictures Marvel gave us which is "so far,so good" ok!

This movie is incomparable to movies already made! I'll save my judgement til I see heimdall's picture.

Also they are not vikings, though loosely based on them. They are Asgardian beings in another cosmic realm that is what they are in the comics. They are loosely and heavily based on Norse Gods.

Now how can anyone be angry or directly belligerent at Marvel or Kenneth? Decisions are to be made and I am not making them nor anyone who is angry about it. I think its wise if they see something in Idris. Obviously its more than his skin color thats for sure. Alright let's move on...

Yeah you have every right as a Thor fan or Norse aficionado to point that casting out. Fortunately I think it will be more amazing than any negativity thrown at the idea of it. Especially with a 200 million dollar budget,great director and writers. It can't get any fortunate than that. Maybe it can with Disney's financial backing! Think outside the box! ;)

Oookay...
I have to give my opinion too.
I have nothing against the actor.
Yes , originally, Thor was a red head guy (in "real" mythology).
Yes I was first shocked by a black Kingpin (in such a bad movie as Johnson's Daredevil, in my opinion) but it can make sense and I got used to it (the black Kingpin, not the Daredevil movie)
Neither I was shocked by a Samuel L. Jackson 's Fury (the Ultimate's Fury was drawned from the actor).
Yes, native american marvel characters were represented (I guess Warpath and Mirage had a cameo in X2) and a non asian Yinseng in Iron Man tickled me but the action taking place nowadays (and not in Viet Nam, why not...?) , and Hogun looking as Attila is close to my own interpretation of what could be the dark character.
But Heimdall, a Norse god, well known......black....seriously.....?
Odin had several "unions", why not Heimdall's father making it with a black beauty, but that's....something's disturbing me, according to my vision of the asgardians in the Marvel universe.
And I remember too Asgardians beeing surprised seeing the New mutant Sunspot, calling him the shadowskin (I don't remember if it was due to his skin or due to his power).
I don't know what to think about the movie, anyway....
Brannagh seemed to be the right person, actors look good, I find costumes are....quite "power rangering" though, and seeing Thor in a t-shirt and hairs on his face reminds me more of Thunderstrike/Masterson and not Don Blake.....
Have you ever seen Thor in civilian dressing? And I mean Thor, not Blake.....
Something tells me he won't fly with Mjolnir, that there will be no Blake, and that the accent wuold be great fun.
Let's see....
But as someone said:

" Someone showed me this, so i thought i should share it: Don't know what the Marvel mythology says, but according to the real mythology; Heimdal wasn't a Asgardian, he was regarded as one but he really wasn't. The name Heimdal comes from; Heim = World and dallr = tree, etymologi tells that the name refer to "Yggdrasil", the worldtree, a Norse/Viking definition of the universe/Milky Way, if you like he was "the god of heaven". Heimdal was not Odins son, thereby not a Asgardian, ge was instead son to the "nine mothers", they are thought to represent the nine worlds of the nordic cosmology. He observed the world and always carried a horn in which to blow when Ragnarok approached. Well; so if they are free to make anyone of the gods politically correct, Heimdal would be a perfect candidate. "


Oh, I forgot....I'm black........lol