EXCLUSIVE: Marvel Studios has found its Thor 2 director. I’m told that Marvel has set Alan Taylor, who was widely rumored to be on the short list to replace Patty Jenkins. Taylor is an accomplished TV director whose recent credits include Game of Thrones, Boardwalk Empire and Nurse Jackie, and he directed the feature Palookaville. Jenkins got the job but then fell out over differences with Marvel on the sequel.
This will put the film back on track to meet its November 15, 2013 release date. The sequel brings back Chris Hemsworth as the hammer-wielding superhero, from a script by Thor co-writer Don Payne. The Kenneth Branagh-directed original grossed $448 million worldwide and launched the star of Hemsworth, who reprised Thor in The Avengers and then played the latter title role opposite Kristen Stewart and Charlize Theron in Snow White and the Huntsman for Universal. Taylor is repped by UTA.
Alan Taylor is a genius. Anyone who has ever worked with him and wasn’t competing with him will say so. He has a vision and he knows how to listen. And if you haven’t worked with him, what are you basing any of your commentary on? In TV, the director makes the show, but he doesn’t break it. There’s too many people involved on a tv show to blame the director for it’s failure – however, the flavor comes from the director. Alan Taylor sweetens everything he works on. Spoken from experience.
Taylor is the real deal. Good for him.
Cant wait till it hit the big screen
It’s amazing the ignorance that permeates the comments here sometimes. Many filmmakers started out just as that – FILM-makers. Then, the competitive reality of the “biz” – the same biz that allows hair stylists to run studios; fashion models to become talented actors; and biochemistry majors to represent/discover “talent;” – and many of these trained and studied directors need to eat. So, TV becomes an option; commercials, music videos, industrials, even theatre.
Paul Haggis won an Oscar for directing “Crash;” Wow! Ain’t that the guy who wrote for “The Facts Of Life?” Stanley Kubrick did what? He took pictures for “LOOK” magazine? Tarantino is a HS dropout?
I’m sure many of you would be surprised at how feature film “learned” Alan Taylor is or Patty Jenkins is.
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