As
DCMarvelFreshman posted earlier, CBR released the details on their
THOR set visit earlier today. Below is just a few of the quotes you can find in their set report from Marvels Head of Production Kevin Feige and Producer Craig Kyle on the upcoming
THOR film.
On Asgard... Kevin Feige: "The fun and scary thing about 'Thor' is you can go a million different directions with the look of Asgard. It could have been 'Lord of the Rings,' it could have been anything, but we've chosen very specifically a Jack Kirby and Walt Simonson vibe for this movie.
"We didn't want to be scared of things like big helmets and capes. We've got them in this movie and they look awesome on film. There really is a sense here that we're creating another world, and we're going to take the audience to that world. I think we have a very good conceit for the movie and the way the movie opens leads them in to it. Is Loki going to have a giant helmet with horns on it? Yes!" On Alexandra Bryne's costume designs... Kevin Feige: "[Alex] can't hide from the brilliant colors and wild looks of the comics. She had to embrace that. It's a tough, tough road, but we all think she's done a great job the way she and Bo [Welch, Production Designer] have really embraced the Kirby and Simonson work and even the more recent stuff in the JMS run. That's what happens when Marvel takes on their properties – we can't strip them out of the colors or costumes that people expect. We can't hide from that stuff. We know why people love our books – it's because of the look and how wonderful our stories have been. The challenge is, you just have to do it right and find out how to bring everyone in." Craig Kyle: "We were thinking about Thor as a super hero first. One of our designers pointed out how he's a warrior first, and when he gets to Earth he becomes a super hero. We always knew we weren't going to make it a warrior story, but with the costume, we hadn't taken that hard line approach. Early on, a designer came in, Charlie Wen, who came in with a design we never ended up using in the movie, but he nailed the direction that spoke to the language of Asgardian style. Charlie and Alex together, with a very talented team, used this one design that became the palette of Asgard. We were terrified, because we knew we had to nail that costume, and as Kevin often brings up, it's the first time there's a cape in a Marvel movie." On the Bifrost Bridge... Kevin Feige: "In the comics, it's literally a rainbow that extends out from Asgard and pops down on Earth. We're not necessarily doing that. We're not having the big hard solid lines of colors; we're saying it's some sort of energy, almost a solid quartz bridge that as the light catches it and flows through it, you get some of that rainbow-esque quality to it. At the end of the bridge, in our film, you come to Heimdall's Observatory. Heimdall guards it, he uses his sword to control it, it begins to spin and it blasts you through space/time to get you where you're going. It's a sort of wormhole portal travel device." Hawksblueyes: Be sure to follow the link below to read the entire article at CBR.
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