With just a few weeks left of principle photography left on Thor: The Dark World, the Huffington Post caught up with Tom Hiddleston, who plays Loki in the Marvel Cinematic Universe so far, to see where things are. While there’s plenty of time left on getting this one out the door, the questions invariably do turn towards whether he thinks there’ll be a third installment in the Thor franchise. “These kind of films, not to get too heavy about it, all depend on the financial success of the one before, so we’ll have to see.”
One of the better things asked involved his views of the directorial change, which segues well with the way the story changes here, from Kenneth Brannagh to Alan Taylor.
“Ken established the tone, so we’ve taken the baton and kept running. Alan Taylor is fantastic, one of the men responsible for ‘Game of Thrones’ which is so of that world, a very grounded, gritty, earthy world where warriors and swords and monsters and magic all meet, so his experience of that has given him a fantastic take on the whole world of Thor.
He was refashioning those archetypes in space. We talked about King Lear and that kind of dynastic drama, about succession, with somebody at the top of the tree, and somebody else due to succeed the throne, there’s always a wrestling if it’s father and son… it’s all very dynastic.”
“I went to a summer screening of a Marvel short film. Ken came and so did Alan, it was very clear how much mutual respect between them and I thought, ‘ok, it’s going to be fine.’”
