Kenneth Branagh to direct Thor?

[Vigilance]

Did you watch the same Henry V as I tried to watch. Talk about not understandable, and I enjoy a good Shakespeare play or movie.

I think Branaugh's Henry V is one of the greatest movies ever made, worthy of every Oscar nomination.

 

[Mark]

To approach this from a different angle, I think that KB is primarily like Sam Raimi, in that he is an actor's director. A script that focuses on character driven story, such as the Spiderman movies, works well in the hands of such a director. While KB can clearly direct scripts with larger plot concerns, Shakespeare is, at its core, about the characters and their growth or decline. If the Thor script is mainly plot-driven, then the producers may have wasted their money picking KB to direct instead of some action movie director with big FX experience.