First Look At Chris Hemsworth On The Set Of ‘Thor: The Dark World’

Splash News has uncovered this first batch of images of Chris Hemsworth playing the eponymous hero in Marvel’s ‘Thor: The Dark World.’ In the pics, Hemsworth can be seen wielding Thor’s Mjolnir alongside Jaimie Alexander’s Sif on the Bourne Wood, Surrey set of the film. Speaking to Hemsworth a few months back, the actor revealed what the approach of ‘Thor: The Dark World’ was, “Alan Taylor is directing, I’ve had a few conversations with him. If you’ve seen the ‘Game of Thrones’ series, it has such a mythical element that Thor has, but also such an organic reality. A lot of real locations, as opposed to green screen, a lot of great sets. I know that is certainly something they want to do with the sequel, ‘Thor 2.’ Make Asgard more liveable and more tangible.”

In ‘Thor: The Dark World,’ the likes of Chris Hemsworth, Idris Elba, Ray Stevenson, Kat Dennings, Jaimie Alexander, Tadanobu Asano, Anthony Hopkins, Tom Hiddleston and Natalie Portman will also reprise their roles from the first film, while Zack Levi is confirmed to play Fandril, Christopher Eccleston will play the villainous Malekith The Accursed, and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje will be playing the dual roles of Algrim the Strong and Kurse. Alan Taylor, an accomplished TV director whose credits include ‘Game of Thrones,’ ‘Boardwalk Empire,’ ‘Mad Men,’ ‘The Sopranos’ and ‘Nurse Jackie,’ takes over directorial duties from Kenneth Branagh, who helmed the first ‘Thor’ film. Don Payne, who co-wrote the first film, penned the original draft with Robert Rodat doing the most recent polish. ‘Thor: The Dark World’ is set for a November 8th, 2013 release.