Tag: thor: ragnarok

Can’t leave my dash for a SECOND…

So, just got back from Wizard World Chicago [quite pleasant a time it was, too, but Seb was missed.] and Lo and Behold, the Return of The Asgardian Bros. greets me. So nice to publish something work-related and long-awaited, so here goes…

[ps. Not to worry, I’ll still be posting my archive of Tom’s interviews and such, but these are nice interruptions. VERY nice, mmm…]

Thor to lock down Brisbane CBD for week of filming

ragnarok-news:

THOR could throw Brisbane into traffic chaos as the Marvel blockbuster hits the city next week.

Cameras
are set to roll in the CBD from Monday until Thursday as part of the
Hollywood production, with controversial road closures on Mary St,
Albert St, Margaret St and the Margaret St off-ramp on the Pacific
Motorway from this week until August 26.

Businesses in the area
yesterday reported receiving a letter from Asgard Productions III Pty
Ltd, claiming to be the producers of a feature film called Creature Report – Thor: Ragnarok’s working title – outlining the filming schedule of “day sequences” and affected streets.

Australian
Retailers Association executive director Russell Zimmerman said he was
disappointed the organisation had not been contacted about the closures.

“Our concern would be whether it made it difficult for customers to reach the businesses,” he said.

“We
have not been advised about this, and this is the type of thing we
could have helped with had we known, (by) assisting in informing all the
retailers in the area and ensuring they were all prepared.

“We
appreciate these things have to happen from time to time, but we hope
the Government and council have the good sense to take in peak shopping
times.”

However, Mr Zimmerman said he understood the positive effect Thor: Ragnarok, starring Aussie hunk Chris Hemsworth would have for Brisbane in the long term.

“When
the film comes out it will encourage people to go out and look at the
areas it was shot in and that’s a positive,” he said.

Many businesses were buzzing with excitement at the prospect of having some of the world’s biggest stars at their doorstep.

“I’m super excited to be able to go star searching and try to walk into shot,” Lisa Hodgkinson of COTA Queensland said.

“It
shows that Brisbane city is good enough to be showcased on screen and
is really coming into its own – but I’m going to totally curse the
traffic jams.”

One Albert St store manager, who did not wish to be
named, said: “It’s really cool they’re shooting in Brisbane, but from a
business point of view, the road closures are a bit of a pain.”

Sir
Anthony Hopkins was yesterday spotted in Port Macquarie, NSW,
reportedly en route to Queensland for filming. British actor Ray
Stevenson has also arrived in town.

Thor to lock down Brisbane CBD for week of filming

Irish actor Ray Stevenson lands on Gold Coast to reprise his role as warrior Volstagg in Thor: Ragnarok

ragnarok-news:

VOLSTAGG has landed on the Gold Coast and he’s ready to Ragnarok!

Towering Irish actor Ray Stevenson is in town to reprise his role as Volstagg in the Marvel Universe blockbuster Thor: Ragnarok, now filming at Village Roadshow Studios.

Modelled on Shakespeare’s Falstaff in character and name, Asgardian adventurer Volstagg appeared in Thor and its sequel Thor: The Dark World.

Stevenson,
52, showed off a permanent souvenir of his visit to the Coast, posing
for a photo with Dai Tattoo in Punktured, in Surfers Paradise, after the
Japanese artist inked a line design on the inside of his forearm.

Renowned for his role as Blackbeard in US TV’s Treasure Island prequel Black Sails and as Titus Pullo in the BBC/HBO series Rome, Stevenson has portrayed two Marvel Comics characters — Thor’s Volstagg and Frank Castle, aka The Punisher, in Punisher: War Zone and The Super Hero Squad Show.

One
of Thor’s “Warriors Three”, Volstagg wields a double-edged greataxe as
his weapon of choice and is variously known as Volstagg the Valiant,
Volstagg the Voluminous, Volstagg the Enormous and the Lion of Asgard.

While Stevenson was transforming himself into the battlefield veteran on set at the Oxenford lot, his Thor: Ragnarok co-star Mark Ruffalo hit the road for a family holiday after he finished filming his scenes as The Hulk.

Ruffalo
posted pictures on Instagram of the group enjoying time out on Lizard
Island and Tamborine Mountain and fans saw the family dining at Cairns
restaurant, Ochre.

The fan world was also abuzz after the Bulletin
photographed The Avengers’ state-of-the-art transporter, the Quinjet,
under construction on the Gold Coast set of Thor: Ragnarok.

The Quinjet was last seen flying off into the bifrost at the end of Avengers: Age of Ultron after being commandeered by Ruffalo’s Hulk.

It’s debut in the Thor franchise will most likely explain how Thor (Chris Hemsworth) finds Hulk in Thor: Ragnarok.

The
jet’s appearance and a cryptic Instagram post by director Taika Waititi
have also fuelled speculation Josh Brolin’s villainous character Thanos
will also appear in Thor: Ragnarok.

Brolin enjoys a rare
distinction in Hollywood thanks to his appearances in four different
film franchises based on four different comic book publications.

In addition to playing Marvel Comics’ Thanos in Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) and Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), Brolin played a young Agent K in Malibu/Marvel Comics movie Men in Black 3 (2012), starred in DC Comics’ Jonah Hex (2010) and was Dwight McCarthy in the 2014 film Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, adapted from the Dark Horse comics.

Thanos,
touted by Avengers: Age of Ultron co-director Joe Russo as “the
greatest threat they (The Avengers) will ever face”, and his quest to
gather all of the Infinity Stones is expected to be the focus of 2018’s
all-star Avengers: Infinity War.

Irish actor Ray Stevenson lands on Gold Coast to reprise his role as warrior Volstagg in Thor: Ragnarok