{"id":23782,"date":"2012-05-25T11:58:39","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T10:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=23782"},"modified":"2012-05-25T12:32:36","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T11:32:36","slug":"thor-2-villain-could-be-valhalla-risings-mads-mikkelsen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/thor-2-villain-could-be-valhalla-risings-mads-mikkelsen\/","title":{"rendered":"Thor 2 villain could be Valhalla Rising’s Mads Mikkelsen"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mads Mikkelsen as the pagan warrior One-Eye in Valhalla Rising<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mads Mikkelsen, star of Casino Royale<\/em> and more pertinently, Danish historical thriller Valhalla Rising<\/em>, is in talks to play a villain in Thor 2<\/a><\/em> (in cinemas 15 November 2013), directed by Game Of Thrones<\/em>‘ Alan Taylor<\/a>.<\/p>\n

One fan-theory is that Mikkelsen will be playing The Executioner, a vicious half-Frost Giant warrior who is frequently manipulated by The Enchantress, and even Loki.<\/p>\n

Between Taylor and Mikkelsen, there’s definitely a more intense vibe to the Thor<\/a><\/em> sequel, so it’ll be interesting to see how this fits with Kenneth Branagh’s pompous, Kirby-esque take on Asgard, and whether having Mikkelsen be the villain means Loki<\/a> is to begin his slide to redemption, or whether Loki will be the puppet master, pitting The Executioner and against Chris Hemsworth’s Thor?<\/p>\n

Already a fan favourite, do you think Tom Hiddleston’s Loki <\/a>will be more of an anti-hero\/reluctant ally than villain in Thor 2<\/em> and Avengers Assemble 2<\/a>?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Valhalla Rising star Mads Mikkelsen in talks to play the villain in Thor 2, do you think Tom Hiddleston’s Loki will be more anti-hero than outright bad guy in the Avengers Assemble sequel?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":23783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2514,2355],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/thor-2-Mads-Mikkelsen.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23782"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}