Kenneth Branagh, the director behind the 2011 Marvel film “Thor,” says he’d be open to returning to the world of superheroes.
Branagh told Business Insider, “Part of me would love to finish my relationship with that character. I’d always wanted to do more and indeed had a couple of ideas, more in the territory of James Mangold’s brilliant ‘Logan.’ I would love to see Chris Hemsworth and the others have their own individual final story that takes ‘Thor’ into a glorious twilight.”
Branagh added that despite being asked, he chose not to return as director for the film’s sequels as he “definitely was ready for another,” just not at the time. He said, “Marvel shoots are intense. Marvel postproduction is more intense — wildly exciting but super intense. I definitely needed to smell the roses. Kevin Feige was very understanding, and so was the cast. I needed a break.”
“Thor” was followed by Alan Taylor’s “Thor: The Dark World” in 2013 before Taika Waititi took over as director for “Thor: Ragnarok”(2017) and “Thor: Love and Thunder” (2022).
The “Belfast” director said he watched the sequels with “a mix of tremendous pride and amazement at the many ways such stories can go,” adding that it “would be something very beautiful to take those characters into their own particular sunset,” when asked about returning to the franchise.
However, Branagh concluded, “They are so far deep into the future of the Marvel Universe that I’m sure whatever plans they have for it are already kind of set. All I know is there’s something beautiful to be had out of arriving at a conclusion for that arc of those stories with those characters and those actors.”
