{"id":82532,"date":"2015-12-03T10:21:27","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T10:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=82532"},"modified":"2015-12-03T10:21:27","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T10:21:27","slug":"thor-3-brings-new-screenwriter-on-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/thor-3-brings-new-screenwriter-on-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Thor 3 brings new screenwriter on board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The saying goes that many hands make light work, and Marvel are clearly putting this to the test, as\u00a0Stephany Folsom has been brought on board <em><strong>Thor: Ragnarok<\/strong><\/em> to as part of its screenwriting team.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/heat-vision\/thor-3-lands-new-writer-845288\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>, Folsom (who previously worked on the 2013 Hollywood Black List script for\u00a0<strong><em>1969: A Space Odyssey Or How Kubrick Learned To Stop Worrying And Land On The Moon<\/em><\/strong>) has been hired to work on the script previously penned by Christopher Yost and Craig Kyle, rather than working directly alongside them. Although we&#8217;re not familiar with any of her work, it&#8217;s nice to see more female screenwriters being brought on board, following in the tradition of success stories like <em><strong>Guardians Of The Galaxy<\/strong> <\/em>writer Nicole Perlman, who is currently working on <em><strong>Captain Marvel<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_82545\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-82545\" style=\"width: 2000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/theblacklistlive_270.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-82545 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/theblacklistlive_270.jpg\" alt=\"theblacklistlive_270\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/theblacklistlive_270.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/theblacklistlive_270-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/theblacklistlive_270-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/theblacklistlive_270-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/theblacklistlive_270-616x411.jpg 616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-82545\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephany Folsom is Thor Ragnarok&#8217;s new screenwriter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The film is being directed by Taika Waititi, with Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Jaimie Alexander and Mark Ruffalo confirmed to be starring.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Thor: Ragnarok<\/em> will be released in cinemas on 27 October 2017.\u00a0<strong><strong>You can find out more about the characters and the comics that inspired them by picking up the latest edition of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imagineshop.co.uk\/bookazines\/sci-fi\/100-all-time-greatest-comics-revised-edition.html\">100 All-Time Greatest Comics<\/a><\/em>.<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The behind-the-scenes team for Thor: Ragnarok has just got one bigger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":82544,"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":[2615,3],"tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/thor910211212331.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82532"}],"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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}