Thor-rific News, Comic Book Fans!

MTV News recently caught up with Kenneth Branagh at a Valkyrie press junket, and the Irish actor-director confirmed that he’ll helm an upcoming Thor movie, which was announced following the massive success of Iron Man as part of a multi-movie package from Marvel Studios.

“I am directing Thor or The Mighty Thor as you might like to call it,” he said. “I think it will be Thor.”

And just what attracted to the director of fare such as Much Ado About Nothing and Hamlet to a comic book adaptation?

“[The opportunity t]o work on a story about one of the immortals, gods, extraordinary beings, inter-dimensional creatures,” he said.

Kevin McKidd (HBO’s Rome, TV’s Grey’s Anatomy) is said to be in the running to play Thor, but Branagh says that’s not quite true, that the role has yet to be filled.

“There’s been lots of talk [about casting] – I sound like a politician – but we are too early at this stage,” he said. “We’re getting the story and the visual effects together, and all of that is very exciting. Someone sensational is going to play the part but it is early days.”

Someone call Friday Night Lights’ Scott Porter pronto!

Photo: BranaghCompendium.com.