Joss Whedon Was Called In To Fix THOR: THE DARK WORLD

Trailers for Marvel’s Thor: The Dark World have not been lighting audiences on fire like Marvel was hoping. The first trailer was pretty underwhelming and then it was followed by news that Marvel realized that fans care a lot more about Loki than Thor, so they re-shot scenes to give more time to Hiddleston’s character.

Now we are getting news that Joss Whedon was actually called in to fix some of the bigger problems of the movie that the film’s director, Alan Taylor couldn’t solve on his own.

Here’s what Taylor told SFX Magazine:
“Joss came in to save our lives a couple of times,” laughs the director. “We had a major scene that was not working on the page at all in London, and he basically got airlifted in, like a SWAT team or something. He came down, rewrote the scene, and before he got back to his plane I sort of grabbed him and said, ‘And this scene and this scene?’ And he rewrote two other scenes that I thought had problems. Then finally we let go of him, he took off again, and we shot the scenes; and they were just much better and much lighter on their feet. Much more fun, much more surprising than what we had been trying to do. I can relate to guys who come out of the TV world, since that’s where I come from. And being able to land and work and solve a problem quickly… I really was grateful.”

The real question is, was he able to do enough to save the movie from being the first real disappointment of the new Marvel film universe.

Thor: The Dark World stars: Christ Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Tom Hiddleston, Christopher Eccleston, Stellan Skarsgård, Idris Elba, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Kat Dennings, Ray Stevenson, Zachary Levi, Tadanobu Asano, Jaimie Alexander, Rene Russo, and Anthony Hopkins.

Official Synopsis:
Marvel’s Thor: The Dark World continues the big-screen adventures of Thor, the Mighty Avenger, as he battles to save Earth and all the Nine Realms from a shadowy enemy that predates the universe itself. In the aftermath of Marvel’s Thor and Marvel’s The Avengers, Thor fights to restore order across the cosmos…but an ancient race led by the vengeful Malekith returns to plunge the universe back into darkness. Faced with an enemy that even Odin and Asgard cannot withstand, Thor must embark on his most perilous and personal journey yet, one that will reunite him with Jane Foster and force him to sacrifice everything to save us all.

Source: CBM