Genre:
Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Superhero
Director:
Kenneth Branagh
Starring:
Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Tom Hiddleston, Anthony
Hopkins
Release Date:
Friday 08 November
Thor: The Dark World is a 2013 American superhero film
featuring the Marvel Comics character Thor, produced by Marvel Studios and
distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It is the second Thor film
following 2011's Thor and the eighth installment in the Marvel Cinematic
Universe. The film was directed by Alan Taylor, with a screenplay by
Christopher Yost, Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, and features Chris
Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Tom Hiddleston, Stellan Skarsgård, Idris Elba, Kat
Dennings, Ray Stevenson, Tadanobu Asano, Jaimie Alexander, Rene Russo and
Anthony Hopkins reprising their roles from the first, with newcomers
Christopher Eccleston, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Zachary Levi and Clive Russell
joining the cast.
Development of Thor: The Dark World began in April 2011,
when producer Kevin Feige announced plans for a sequel to follow the crossover
film Marvel's The Avengers. In July 2011, Kenneth Branagh, the director of
Thor, withdrew from the project. Brian Kirk and Patty Jenkins were considered
to direct the film before Taylor was hired in January 2012. The supporting cast
filled out in August 2012, with the hiring of Eccleston, Dennings and
Akinnuoye-Agbaje. Principal photography began in September 2012 in Surrey,
England with filming continuing in Iceland and London, before wrapping up in
December 2012. Thor: The Dark World was converted to 3D in post-production.
Thor: The Dark World premiered at the Odeon Leicester Square
in London on October 22, 2013. It was internationally released on October 30,
2013, and is scheduled to be released on November 8, 2013 in the United States.
Plot
Eons ago, Bor, father of Odin, vanquished the Dark Elves led
by Malekith, who sought to return the universe to its state before creation
using a force called the Aether. Fighting off Malekith's enhanced warriors, the
Kursed, Bor contains the Aether within a stone column. Unbeknownst to him,
Malekith, his lieutenant Algrim and others escape into suspended animation. In
the present, in Asgard, Loki stands before Odin in shackles and is sentenced to
imprisonment, while Thor, alongside warriors Fandral, Volstagg and Sif repel
invaders from Vanaheim, home of their comrade Hogun; it is the final battle in
a two-year war to make peace in the Nine Realms. In London, astrophysicist Jane
Foster, who has not seen Thor in that time, attempts a lunch date with a man
named Richard but is interrupted by her intern Darcy Lewis. She takes Foster to
an abandoned factory where the laws of physics are upended in spots and objects
disappear into thin air. Foster, after bringing her own scientific equipment to
the factory, is sucked into a vortex where the Aether enters her.
The Asgardians learn a rare alignment of the Nine Realms is
imminent, and at spots where the Realms touch, as at the factory, portals are
created. When Heimdall tells Thor that Foster is no longer on Earth, Thor
begins a search for her there. She has awakened in the factory after hours in
the other realm, and finds herself releasing powerful energy when a police
officer on the scene touches her. Sensing the force's unearthly nature, Thor
brings Foster to Asgard, but its physicians cannot remove it. Odin realizes she
is the Aether's vessel and this heralds a catastrophic prophecy. Frigga—Odin's
wife, Thor's mother and Loki's adoptive mother—takes Foster under her wing. In
holographic form, Frigga visits Loki in his cell to convey her love and
disappointment.
Malekith and his forces, awakened by the Aether's release,
turn Algrim into a Kursed and attack Asgard. Malekith and Algrim kill Frigga
while searching for Foster, and are attacked by Thor, forcing their retreat.
Thor is ordered to remain and protect Asgard rather than pursue revenge.
Following Frigga's funeral, Thor decides to take Foster from Asgard to lead
Malekith away. He reluctantly teams with Loki, who knows a secret portal to
Malekith's world. With Volstagg and Sif guarding his flank, the two commandeer
a Dark Elf spaceship and escape with Foster.
On Earth, Lewis learns that her colleague Dr. Erik Selvig
has apparently gone mad and has been institutionalized after attempting to
conduct scientific experiments at Stonehenge while naked. She has Selvig
released from a hospital's mental ward with the help of her own intern, Ian.
Thor, Loki and Foster confront Malekith and Algrim on Svartalfheim, where,
after a hoax in which Loki appears to betray Thor, Loki sacrifices himself to
keep Malekith from retrieving the Aether. It is to no avail, as Algrim batters
Thor and Malekith takes the Aether from Foster. Thor and Foster return to Earth
after stumbling upon a portal between realms. The battle shifts to London,
where Malekith, in a towering space-vessel, will use the Aether at the exact moment
and place of the Nine Realms' convergence to destroy the universe and restore
the dark-energy state in which the Dark Elves thrive. As Thor battles Malekith,
Foster and Selvig use devices they have constructed to shift energy where the
Nine Realms meet. At the last moment, they transport Malekith and his ship back
to Svartalfheim, where the crumbling ship crushes him.
In Asgard, Thor declines Odin's offer to take the throne and
tells Odin of Loki's sacrifice. As Thor leaves, the image of Odin reverts to
the true form of shapeshifter Loki, who, disguised earlier as a warrior, has
usurped the throne.
In a mid-credits scene, Volstagg and Sif visit the Collector
and entrust to his care the Aether, commenting that—with the Tesseract already
in Asgard—having two Infinity Stones so close together would be dangerous. As
they leave, the Collector remarks, "One down, five to go." In a
post-credits scene, Foster and Thor reunite on Earth.
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References.
External links:
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