THOR Actress Natalie Portman Says She's Open To Reprising Her Role As Jane Foster In The MCU

@BlindWedjat - You're so right. Jane being brainwashed would have been much more powerful and motivating, and given her a lot more reason to be pissed in the Thor sequel.

(Plus, I'm sure the Stonehenge scene would have been a lot more... erh... nevermind.)

@Spock0Clock - She should be more important. At least he genius should be. The woman has her own theory for goodness sake.

@Chewtoy - Yeah. The best chance to do that was probably related to the Agent Carter show (i.e. the Marvel TV show that had actual buy-in from Feige, the Russos, and Markus/McFeely). But the general whiff on the Howling Commandos doesn't make it all that appealing.

But I'm such a sucker for the old-school comic structure. I would love for Marvel Studios to drop a fifteen minute one-shot into a blu-ray somewhere. It's winter at the Avengers mansion, set sometime before Civil War. A school bus arrives with a few dozen kids from P.S.123 for a tour. They'd won an essay-writing contest about why the world needs protecting, and they get to meet the Avengers. It's all schmaltz, hot cocoa, and Rhodey wearing a fake Santa beard.

And the weather takes a turn for the worst, the roads close, and the kids and their teacher spend the night. Over a crackling fire, Steve settles into an armchair and tells the kids about "a story they don't teach about the war". And they do a five minute flashback scene of Cap, a mysterious fish man, and an android on fire storming a beachhead.

After the lights are out, one of the kids sees the Vision phase through the ceiling to the kitchen, stare into the refrigerator for twenty solid seconds, and then close it and float back upstairs.

There's very much no room for that kind of nonsense in a blockbuster schedule, but this is why I'm so excited to see what "the Next Feige" can do. Whether it's Marvel or otherwise, someone is going to figure out a way to coordinate across platforms to do the big stuff on the big screen, the small stuff on a small screen, and the give room for the weird stuff somewhere. I mean, we got Doctor Strange doing a kid's birthday party for a dumb Kimmel sketch. There's an appetite for the mundane at least when it comes to promotion.