Power Ranking Every 2017 Comic Book Movie By Hype
4. Thor: Ragnarok
Release: 3rd November
After The Dark World proved to be a bit of a low point for the MCU, Marvel have gone out and hired excellent comedic director Taika Waititi, brought in Mark Ruffalo and elements of Planet Hulk and sent Thor and the big green guy on an interstellar buddy road movie. It sounds like a pretty big swerve from the other two movies, but that might not be a bad thing.
The Selling Point:
There's a lot. First, the co-adaptation of both the Ragnarok (basically Asgardian civil war) story and some of Planet Hulk is genius and exactly the right amount of fan-baiting. Then there's the cast: Cate Blanchett as Hela, Jeff Goldblum as the Taskmaster, Tessa Thomspon as Valkyrie and Karl Urban as Skurge... It's all great.
We're also promised major stakes, death and the final escalation before Thanos gets his hands on the Infinity Stones. But with a comedic edge. It's a genuine wildcard.
The Concerns:
Well, the second one was terrible (despite a great final act), and the promised lack of any Earth sequences, and there's a bit of a disparity between the gravity of the source and the levity of the director's previous work. But then The Russos made You, Me And Dupree, so...