Few Marvel flick have reimagined a character as radically as Thor : Ragnarok . Director Taika Waititi took the things rooter already loved about the character , filtered them through a newfangled ocular palette and add more jokes than almost any other Marvel moving picture . The consequence is probably one of the most rewatchable films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe .
That mean you may want to institute it home when the Blu - shaft of light bang on March 6 ( or you’re able to download the whole thing right now ) . If you do , you ’ll be decorate with an impressive series of bonus features , including erase scenes , featurettes , and even a young unretentive film . All of it is perfectly worth checking out , but for those who ca n’t , we went through all of the extras , as well as Waititi ’s theatre director commentary , and pull out everything you did n’t know about Thor : Ragnarok .
• Thor ’s scenes with Doctor Strange , which are both in this movie and in the credit of Doctor Strange , were shot eight to nine month before product on Thor : Ragnarok formally started .
• Marvel Studios used the satellite of Sakaar to fully espouse the visuals of iconic artist Jack Kirby . The colors were a big part of it , but also many of the background grapheme , and even arm and ship , come up straight from Kirby ’s work .
• You get a abbreviated glance of one in the flick , but the Grandmaster was originally perish to have many more melodious scenes , because Jeff Goldblum himself is quite the vocaliser .
• Tom Hiddleston ’s favorite Loki scene in the celluloid was when Hulk bankrupt Thor much like Hulk smashed Loki in The Avengers , which get all the sense in the universe .
• In the Marvel Cinematic Universe chronology , the consequence of Ragnarok happened at almost the precise same clock time as Captain America : Civil War .
• The two biggest comic Word influences on the story were the original 1960s Journey into Mystery comics by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby , which star Thor before he get his own serial , as well as the classical , iconic “ Ragnarok ” storyline by Walt Simonson in the ‘ 80s , which introduced Surtur , Skurge , and more .
• There were also influences from the 2006 “ Planet Hulk ” plot line by Greg Pak , and the classic “ Contest of Champions ” comic from 1982 , where the Grandmaster mark various Marvel hero against each other for an intergalactic tourney . to boot , Jason Aaron ’s very recent “ God of Thunder ” storyline also had a few details plucked from it , specifically Hela ’s exponent to create knives and clobber — although in that circumstance , that special power was used by the character Gorr , the God Butcher .
• In the “ Unstoppable Women : Hela & Valkyrie ” featurette , Marvel Studios producer Brad Winderbaum enigmatically suggests that Valkyrie will lead the next contemporaries of the Marvel Cinematic Universe .
• When we first meet the Grandmaster in the film , the guy who he melts with his stick is his full cousin Carlo , because he was gambling with a modest camel .
• In edict to visualize some of the big action at law set pieces in the movie , the yield made very crude , but very nerveless , 8 - bit recreation of integral scenes , two of which are really on the disk .
• While the vox of Surtur is Clancy Brown ( of Shawshank Redemption and animated Lex Luthor renown ) , Waititi did the apparent movement - capture for the body .
• The handshaking weight that Skurge plays with at the beginning of the film is really Waititi ’s , and it was purchased while Waititi was filming DC ’s Green Lantern picture in 2011 . It ’s a DC / Marvel crosswalk , in a way .
• Originally , the scene when Odin dies and Hela returns was also shot in a city localisation ( some of which made it into early prevue ) . However , Waititi decided that ultimately did n’t turn for the story so they reshot it to count like a giant , green field in Norway . In world , it was shot in Atlanta .
• One of the storyboard creative person on Thor : Ragnarok is named Michael Jackson . “ He was an incredible artist and , turns out , still is , ” says Waititi .
• You may not notice it but , when Hela have back to Asgard , her suit change state greenish , a subtle alteration made to show that her powers have increased .
• Hela is n’t lying when she says Odin ’s Infinity Gauntlet is fake . Odin put a fake one in his hurdle there to trick the galaxy into think the real gauntlet was impregnable and everyone is safe . They are not .
• The scene when Valykrie opens her beer by cutting it is an court to the acclaimed New Zealand film Once Were Warriors .
• Valkyrie ’s ship , the War Song , was name that because of a verse in the Darraðarljoð , an epic verse form about the Valkyries from Njáls saga , from 13th - C Iceland .
• When Thor produce his haircut , one side of his point looks like an “ N ” and the other is a “ Z. ” Waititi says that ’s an court to his home country of New Zealand , though he may just be joking .
• One of the other gladiators in the Contest of Champions is a guy cable with three heads ; the right - most head is Waititi ’s .
• After the fight with Hulk , Thor is nursed back to health by four woman . Two of them are meet by Waititi and Hemsworth ’s married woman , Chelsea Winstanley and Elsa Pataky .
• The way Waititi was able to capture the stunning , unequalled visual of the Valykrie horseback riding against Hela isa blade - young lighting technique that has never been used in a photographic film before . It was formulate by two of Waititi ’s childhood friend , Carlo Van de Roer and Stu Rutherford of Satellite Lab , and it ’s achieved by shooting a setting with a high - speed camera as an regalia of over 100 strobe light flash very quickly in succession . The result is drastic , moving shadow , which provide the dream - like look . He say it ’s like heater Time , but for lighting .
• There ’s a blue-pencil fit ( not on the Blu - ray ) of Korg seek to start the gyration as he and his friend pick weapons , where he quickly pull in he ’s not a good leader .
• The colors on the Grandmaster ’s ship , the Commodore , were revolutionize by the Aboriginal flag of Australia , while the colour on Valkyrie ’s ship were exhort by the flag of New Zealand ’s Māori people .
• All of the spaceships in the chase fit leave Sakaar are named after cars made by an Australian and New Zealand car ship’s company called Holden Cars .
• Before they enter the Devil ’s Anus , there is a deleted scene of Banner freaking out because he believe going through the wormhole might transform him back into the Hulk . ( This scene is on the digital adaptation of the flick . )
• All of the prizefighter that battle with Korg are named after Waititi ’s friends .
• The final struggle on Asgard rent over a calendar month to shoot .
• The digital rendering of the movie comes with a queer scene for Marvel fans , where Yondu , play by Michael Rooker , shows up and stop Skurge from killing the girlfriend in front of Hela . He then asks where Kevin and Lou ’s offices are — Kevin and Lou being Kevin Feige and Louis D’Esposito , two of the three chief producers for Marvel Studios . It was scud as a joke because Rooker was filming footage for Disneyland ’s Guardians of the Galaxy ride on the same daylight .
Thor : Ragnarok is useable for digital download now and on Blu - ray and on - demand March 6 .
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