Loki is to be played by actor Tom Hiddleston, a pasty thin-faced chap who really looks like Marvel’s conception of the character. Mr. Hiddleston has worked with Thor director Kenneth Branagh before, and more important, apparently continues Marvel’s weird fixation with actually getting good actors to star in their movies, instead of ‘names.’ Whoever heard of such a thing? In 2008, Hiddleston was nominated twice for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Newcomer, once for “Othello,” and once for “Cymbeline;” he won for the later.
Meanwhile, unsurprisingly, it does look like Asgard plays a big role in the film’s plot: “At the center of the story is The Mighty Thor, a powerful but arrogant warrior whose reckless actions reignite an ancient war. Thor is cast down to Earth and forced to live among humans as punishment. Once here, Thor learns what it takes to be a true hero when the most dangerous villain of his world sends the darkest forces of Asgard to invade Earth.”
Hopefully the film will use the Loki-created Absorbing Man character in this; that would be smashing.
