Marvel is just cleaning up big time at this year’s San Diego Comic Con with The Avengers, Captain America, and Thor. One of the things that a lot of studios are doing this year is giving fans a good bit of footage from their films to sort of whet their appetites more than mere trailers can do.
Oh, if only I was there to get the full benefit of this but at least there are some great sites out there to recap it all for us. Be warned that what you’re about to read may not actually spoil anything related directly to the plot of the film, but it could be what some actual footage will be. There is still a lot of time until the actual release date so editing and such may put some of this on the cutting room floor.
Courtesy of Collider, there may be spoilers ahead:
The footage, which was cut together as basically a long trailer, was way too much to digest on a single viewing, so thank the gods we got to see it again at the end of the panel. It starts off basically where Iron Man 2 ended: with the hammer in the desert.
Cut to Thor being interrogated by Gregg because he destroyed a whole team of his men. We then go to Asgard, which looks sort of like a golden, more polished and richer version of Naboo, where Thor is being yelled at by Odin, stripped of his powers, and banished to New Mexico. “This is Earth, isn’t it?” he asks when he’s discovered alone, in the desert, but Portman’s character.
She then brings him into her world where he describes that where he’s from, magic and science are one in the same.
Back in Asgard, things don’t seem to be going too well and Loki is now the king, which seems to set off a bunch of things on Earth, including Thor trying – and failing – to lift his hammer.
We then get a bunch of action stuff cut together, including some awesome stuff with Thor swinging the hammer and a bunch of the other gods, etc. In the end, we see a Destroyer come to Earth and blow up some cars before the footage ended.
Anyone else ready for next summer to get here now?
