Posts tagged: Kenneth Branagh
After filming 2011’s Thor, director Kenneth Branagh noticed that the prop hammer -Mjolnir - had gone missing, distressing the famous director who had planned to keep it as a memento. Actor Tom Hiddleston, a longtime friend of Branagh’s, is reported to have taken the prop. He currently has no plans to return it, and is “not sorry.”
![During the filming of 2011’s Thor, actress Rene Russo was forbidden from handling the prop swords due to her violent criminal past. An inexperienced security guard was blamed when she managed to acquire this steel prop. Though her frenzied rampage through the set claimed the lives of six crew members, director Kenneth Branagh claimed that the footage was “too good not to use” and digitally replaced the late crew members with frost giants. It is said that actor Liam Neeson (King Laufey) quit the project in protest of Branagh’s decision, only to be replaced by Colm Feore who reportedly “had no problem [with it].”](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lrut2fyXFP1r3yp18o1_1280.png)
During the filming of 2011’s Thor, actress Rene Russo was forbidden from handling the prop swords due to her violent criminal past. An inexperienced security guard was blamed when she managed to acquire this steel prop. Though her frenzied rampage through the set claimed the lives of six crew members, director Kenneth Branagh claimed that the footage was “too good not to use” and digitally replaced the late crew members with frost giants. It is said that actor Liam Neeson (King Laufey) quit the project in protest of Branagh’s decision, only to be replaced by Colm Feore who reportedly “had no problem [with it].”
Director Kenneth Branagh insists that his 2011 film Thor is actually based around actor Jeremy Renner’s character, Hawkeye. He does admit that Chris Hemsworth’s cameo as Thor “got out of hand.”
Director Kenneth Branagh was reportedly so pleased with this scene from 2011’s Thor that he had this image of actor Chris Hemsworth printed onto t-shirts, hats and coffee mugs which he gave to the film crew. Mr. Hemsworth was heard to remark that Mr. Branagh was a “wacky guy” who “liked his jokes.”
