Thor Love and Thunder is only a few weeks away, and while early reactions are positive from the film, that doesn’t mean that everyone is on board with what is going on with it. Mainly, the look of Gorr The God Butcher doesn’t resemble the comic character that many comic fans are familiar with. He’ll be played by Christian Bale and he actually revealed why there is a change in the look:
“I was coming off of a film where it had been necessary to be sort of rather lacking in muscle,” Bale explained. “And then I saw the images and thought, ‘Well, that’s not gonna be possible… and this g-string thing that’s going on there.’ He looked in the comic books like physically, you know, someone to reckon with though. And I said, ‘Well, you know, that’s just not gonna be possible in the state I’m in. And we literally have three days between me finishing one film and heading over to Australia for the quarantine and whatnot. I like to usually have much more time in between, but the pandemic meant that things got worked out that way.”
An interesting insight, and so they went with “what they could use” given the situation:
“So we said, ‘All right, no, we’ll go with the supernatural powers that he does have, that he gets from the Necro sword, et cetera,’ which I think works really effectively,” Bale continued. “And, you know, they might wanna see his ass; they don’t wanna see mine. So let’s say lose that g-string – and that decision had, thank God, already been made the very first time I sat down with Taika… He went, ‘No, no, no, no, let’s not go there.'”
So now we know what happened, and now we just need to see how the character works as a whole on July 8th.
Source: ComicBook.com
