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Thor Casting News Strikes Again / TK

Trade News | November 24, 2009 | Comments (31)

I swear this will be the last Thor-related news we run this week. Probably. Maybe.

What can we say — news is coming out fast and furiously about Thor, which as we said yesterday, is gearing up to start filming in January. Now, it’s come out, in a roundabout fashion, that Kat Dennings (The 40 Year Old Virgin, Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, Charlie Bartlett) has joined the cast. The news broke in an unusual way, via an interview with Natalie Portman (who will play Jane Foster in the film) let slip in an interview with MTV that her friend Kat Dennings would be in the film as well.

Quick aside: I adore Kat Dennings. She hasn’t done much, but I find her to be cute, funny and, as an added bonus, she’s a bona fide geek chick. Also? Vermillion just exploded.

Anyway, through a bit of digging, Slashfilm believes they’ve figured out who she’ll be playing via reading through the casting call.

“[MARCY LEWIS] (20) Is a college student. Aloof, jaded beyond her years, she thought her internship with scientist Kate Spelling would be an easy 6 college credits. However, she’s been stuck for months in this small New Mexico town and relegated to a wide range of unglamorous activities. Kate has been particularly hard on Marcy, making it her personal project to see that Marcy lives up to her potential. Marcy deals with her situation both by using subtle irony and by being an overt wiseass.”

Certainly seems to fit Dennings’s type. I’m sure the news will break in the next few days. Anyway, Thor. God of Thunder. And Kat Dennings.

Mmmmm…


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Comments

This cast just keeps getting bigger and bigger. What on Midgard does a New Mexican scientist and her intern have to do with Thor? Any guesses?

Posted by: The Wandering Parakeet at November 24, 2009 10:39 AM

I looooooooove Kat Dennings. She'll make this more enjoyable for me, because frankly, I'm so sick of Natalie Portman and her Annoying Tour '09. I think people are finally starting to see she's overrated.

Yes, I said it.

Posted by: Sofía at November 24, 2009 10:42 AM

Sorry, I don't do the Facebook thing ... who's the Pajibette in the photo?

Posted by: , (just , cause I'm tired of typing that other shit) at November 24, 2009 10:46 AM

I'm gonna stage a sit-in for Thor cos the bastards didn't cast Skarsgard. SIT IN.

Posted by: figgy at November 24, 2009 10:49 AM

I feel like Kat Dennings' snark cannot exist in the same world where an enormous Nordic man is propelled by the force of his hammer. It just can't happen.
And yes, the hammer is his penis.

Posted by: Optimus Rhyme at November 24, 2009 10:53 AM

With you on that, if you mean Alexander Skarsgard, who by shear awesomeness (almost) cancels out the anoying-Sookie factor.

I mean, his 3rd name is Hjalmar, fergodssake!

*sits down after grabbing some cookies*

Posted by: Magiel at November 24, 2009 10:56 AM

YAY! Honestly, if there's one girl I could theoretically switch teams for (One who isn't a Pajibette), it's Kat Dennings. Honestly, I would make all the different sex moves with her.

On that note, how does a vagina work?

Posted by: Jeremy Feist at November 24, 2009 10:59 AM

For anyone reading the comic, I think the first part of the end of Strazynski's awesome run comes out this Wednesday.

Posted by: twig at November 24, 2009 11:00 AM

The very words "Natalie" and "Portman" I'm the same sentence make me want to take a nap. Her new Militant Bitch Mission bores me.

Posted by: stardust at November 24, 2009 11:05 AM

I'm=in

I fell asleep for a second there.

Posted by: stardust at November 24, 2009 11:07 AM

Parakeet has it right. What the fuck all does this character have to do with anything? Who the fuck is scientist (really?) Kate Spelling? Why should anyone give two damns about a snotty college kid in a movie about a Norse God who bashes shit with his magic hammer?

Posted by: Tracer Bullet at November 24, 2009 11:08 AM

Trish: And what is this?
Andy Stitzer: [sounding exasperated] A vagina.

Posted by: Jay at November 24, 2009 11:15 AM

I second Tracer on seconding Parakeet here. What has any of this to do with the Ragnarök? Will we be tortured with 2 hours of bad back story and 15 minutes of Thor-style smiting? I feel a Hulk style movie a brewin'...

Posted by: Xtreme at November 24, 2009 11:20 AM

*Yawn*

Are ALL the mythological gods going to get a movie? I can kind of see Cupid as an avenger, firing flaming arrows into the penises of evildoers to give them a good dose of the clap and a sudden irresistable love for barnyard animals.

Posted by: , (just , cause I'm tired of typing that other shit) at November 24, 2009 11:29 AM

*smoke wafts up*

Posted by: Smoking Crater (formerly Vermillion) at November 24, 2009 11:31 AM

So far Thor, the one Marvel franchise I was most doubtful regarding its adaptation, has hit nothing but good notes in both director and cast.

Fingers crossed they nail it.

Posted by: Fredo at November 24, 2009 11:45 AM

You know how happy I'd be if this wasn't a fucking origin story? If they just dropped us into Asgard and let Thor do his thing, fuckin' up some Betamax Bill or whoever that lizard lookin' dude is.

Posted by: Optimus Rhyme at November 24, 2009 11:59 AM

I apologize if no one knows who I mean. I know next to nothing about Thor but I know this Lizard Dude exists. Beta Ray Bill, according to Wikipedia. Somehow he got stuck in my brain craw.

Posted by: Optimus Rhyme at November 24, 2009 12:07 PM

At first I thought she might be playing the Enchantress, one of Loki's sidekicks who lusts after Thor, but that description from slashfilm doesn't fit.

Posted by: John W at November 24, 2009 12:57 PM

"a sudden irresistable love for barnyard animals."

Shhh Big Daddy, that was supposed to be our little secret.

Posted by: Lindsey with an 'e' at November 24, 2009 12:58 PM

Beta Ray Bill is more of a horse dude than a lizard dude. Perhaps you're referring to Fin Fang Foom or the Midgard Serpant?

Posted by: Tracer Bullet at November 24, 2009 1:02 PM

oops!

Posted by: , (just , cause I'm tired of typing that other shit) at November 24, 2009 1:18 PM

Fin Fang Foom! Has absolutely no genitals whatsoever! Fin Fang Foom! Oh, you cannot possibly imagine how annoyed he is.

Posted by: twig at November 24, 2009 2:03 PM

i could actually hear the Vermillion explosion


How come I was unaware of the incredible hotness of Kat Dennings? Did they downplay it in the trailers for her past movies?? Huh? I'm usually up on things, especially things with boobs. How did this go unnoticed?!

Posted by: VinKong at November 24, 2009 2:51 PM

Twig, is that a Nextwave reference?

I...I finally know what love is.

Posted by: The Wandering Parakeet at November 24, 2009 3:28 PM

Has been burning with the need to mate since 1956!

Mr. VinKong, you just weren't looking. I mean, she seemed underagey in "The 40 Year Old Virgin", might have actually been, but she was still "hmmmmm". As I've said, I prefer to admire such things from a distance, but she's also really pretty.

Posted by: Jay at November 24, 2009 3:35 PM

Jeremy, pick up a copy of Our Bodies, Ourselves.

It will blow your mind.


Posted by: Drake at November 24, 2009 3:37 PM

Posted by: The Wandering Parakeet at November 24, 2009 3:28 PM

Wait, two people who understand the greatness of Nextwave? Where have you been?

This is why we need to get avatars or something. That way everyone could know of my unnatural love for Aaron "Machine Man" Stack.

Bite my valve, indeed.

Posted by: Smoking Crater (formerly Vermillion) at November 24, 2009 4:53 PM

Oh, Smoking Crater, had we only had time to explore this mutual interest before you went kablooey on us. *sigh* I'll just have to sing the theme song to myself.

The Captain! His name is The Captain!

Posted by: The Wandering Parakeet at November 24, 2009 6:41 PM

The overabundance of 'snark' and (wherever the case may be) 'twee' is ruining the movies.

Just write a story! Augh!

Posted by: Jo 'Mama' Besser at November 25, 2009 6:49 PM

I find Kat Dennings so adorable that I follow her on Twitter.

Posted by: Daniel Hall at November 26, 2009 6:33 PM





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