‘Thor’ Villain Cast – Tom Hiddleston Is Loki

I’m not as happy about who this casting includes as I am who it excludes. Kenneth Branagh‘s Thor just hired its Norse God over the weekend (Kirk the elder, Chris Hemsworth, from the new Star Trek flick. And now he’s got a rival – Tom Hiddleston, or so says Deadline Hollywood Daily.

The one drawback to hiring Hiddleston is, very simply, villains make comic book movies about 75% of the time. Those roles have commonly been reserved for big Oscar nominees like Hackman, Nicholson, Ledger, Dafoe, and McKellen. Hiddleston just isn’t in that group, no offense.

Branagh likes him, though, and mentioned what a great actor Hiddleston is during a recent discussion on who might emerge as Thor. (Branagh and Hiddleston work together on the BBC series Wallander.)

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