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| Thor (Chris Hemsworth) team up with Loki (Tom Hiddleston) to take on a greater universal evil. |
With exactly three months remaining until Marvel fully unveils its second chapter of Phase Two, the studio in conjunction with YouTube's Geek Week released the second trailer for Thor: The Dark World online this Wednesday.
The latest trailer for Thor: The Dark World bears too much resemblance to the initial trailer attached to Marvel's own Iron Man 3 a few months back, leaving many comic book fans still left in the dark about many of the film's details. But honestly, by no means is it a cheap move by Disney and Marvel to keep plenty of their cards close to the chest. When November 8th rolls around, the more surprises Marvel dishes out the better as long as there's nothing to polarize audiences like one certain turn of events in Iron Man 3.
As its film's title suggests, Thor: The Dark World goes a darker route and there's no mistaking that director Alan Taylor is taking places the first film strayed from. Whereas the first film concentrated on teaching Thor a thing or two about humility in an inferior realm, the sequel is going all-in to just survive a powerful ancient threat.
From the two trailers, it painfully obvious how much more crucial Jane Foster (Natalie Portman) is to the plot. Just as Thor (Chris Hemsworth) was a fish out of water in the 2011 film, the roles are clearly reversed in The Dark World as Jane is transported by Thor for her own protection to the divine realm of Asgard, surely a far cry from Earth. Portman's only given one standout moment in the trailer, slapping Tom Hiddleston's Loki for the havoc he created in The Avengers. Audiences at Comic-Con caught a glimpse of the snippet a few weeks ago, but for the rest of us, seeing the brief exchange for the first time in the trailer was well worth the wait.
Hemsworth's God of Thunder is shrouded in much mystery this time around. Except for whisking Jane off to Asgard and getting his hands dirty in the midst of multi-realm battles, the trailer's not revealing much about the lead character. Granted, the hammer-wielding hero has to put his differences aside with his villainous brother Loki to defeat an even greater evil, but there's too many pieces of the puzzle intentionally left missing to fully analyze where all these otherworldly events are leading.
And leave it to Tom Hiddleston to steal every scene he is in during the trailer. Hiddleston's fantastic as Loki and rides the line between good and evil so narrowly that he's threatened by his brother Thor and the Warriors Three if he betrays them in this unlikely alliance to take down the dark elf, Malekith. Wait, who? Except for torturing Jane is one scene and a brief menacing voiceover telling a unknown person "their world will be extinguished," there's not much more known about this villain played by Christopher Eccleston.
Between now and its November release, there's an outside chance that Disney and Marvel will release another trailer for Thor: The Dark World, but with the minimal footage seen so far, Phase Two is shaping up to be a deeper arc to fanboys for 2015's The Avengers: Age of Ultron. Thor: The Dark World hits theaters November 8.
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