Locked THOR: RAGNAROK v.2 (First Critics Reviews)

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Awe, he was only day dreaming... so it didn't really happen :oops:

Here we go... this one actually happened.

 
Update: August 16, 2017

Doctor Strange Appears in International Trailer for THOR: RAGNAROK


 
Update: September 7, 2017

Awesome New Posters for THOR: RAGNAROK Reveal the Colorful Characters


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I am so hype for this movie. That 80s heavy metal vibe gives me a boner. Also, Chris Hemsworth and Cate Blanchett as Hela looking sexy as fuck.
 
Update: September 13, 2017

THOR: RAGNAROK Writer Denied Credit by Writers Guild of America, Cries Foul


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A Writers Guild of America credit arbitration committee has denied Stephany Folsom a “Story by” credit on Thor: Ragnarok despite her work on the film, and Folsom isn’t sitting idly by.

“Marvel gave me ‘story by’ credit on THOR RAGNAROK and the writers’ guild denied me the credit due to guild regulations,” tweeted Folsom on Monday. “There’s something very wrong when a major corporation is doing more to protect your interests than your own guild,” she added.

What Marvel presumably "gave" Folsom was inclusion in the Notice of Tentative Writing Credits, or NTWC, that Marvel would have sent to each writer and the WGA itself. Those credits would then have become final, but one or more writers presumably protested the credits, resulting in an arbitration. The credits in at least one version of the poster are “Story by Craig Kyle & Christopher Yost and Eric Pearson” — the “&” signals a writing team, while the “and” denotes writers who wrote independently — and “Screenplay by Eric Pearson.”





Folsom came on to the project in December 2015, after Kyle & Yost. She was best known at the time for a 2013 Black List script, 1969: A Space Odyssey or How Kubrick Learned to Stop Worrying and Land on the Moon, an alternate-history story of a publicist who convinces filmmaker Stanley Kubrick to work with NASA in order to fake the moon landing.

Credits matter, because they indicate who made the most significant contributions to a script (at least usually), signal professional stature and determine whether a writer receives residuals and sometimes bonuses as well.

In order to heighten the importance of credit, and reduce the perception that screenwriters can be swapped in and out like sparkplugs, the WGA’s own members have adopted rules that limit “Story by” screen credit to two writers or teams, and that guarantee at least shared "Story by" credit to the first writer or team (Kyle & Yost) on an original screenplay.

That probably left Folsom and Pearson battling for a “Story by” slot. With Pearson receiving sole Screenplay credit, it would perhaps have been hard for the arbitrators (who are themselves experienced screenwriters) to conclude that he didn’t deserve a “Story by” credit as well.

The WGA and the four writers did not respond to requests for comment, while Marvel declined to comment.

In any event, Folsom’s tweets triggered a calming reply from Christopher McQuarrie — maintaining a good relationship with Marvel is “just as important as a credit,” he wrote — and dozens of saddened and outraged responses from apparent fans and writers, several of whom urged Folsom to quit the guild.

Although Folsom described her Marvel relationship in a tweet as being “as good as any corporate relationship can be,” that wasn’t the picture just two months ago, when Marvel issued a poster with writing credits — but without Folsom’s name. Her tweet then excoriated the company, not the WGA:



“Gross” or not, it is permitted: WGA rules say that “prior to the final determination of screen credits … the work of participants not receiving screen credit may be publicized by the Company.”

And that apparent back and forth by Marvel hints at why the guild in its early years fought ferociously for the right to determine credit, in order to prevent studio practices that at one time involved gratuitously doling out writing credit to moguls’ paramours or favored writers. The studios soon saw the advantage of letting the guild have the final say, since that meant that disappointed writers’ fury would be more often turned on their own union.

A source told The Hollywood Reporter that Folsom is appealing the decision. That will trigger a review by a so-called Policy Review Board — a second panel of writers — but a PRB is only supposed to look for rule violations, not re-judge the whole case.

Absent an unexpected thunderbolt from the sky, the WGA’s hammer has dropped and its judgment is likely to remain unchanged.

'Thor: Ragnarok' Writer Denied Credit by Writers Guild of America, Cries Foul
 
Must be a good movie. Doubt she would be this upset if her name was going to be attached to a pile of shit.
 
Must be a good movie. Doubt she would be this upset if her name was going to be attached to a pile of shit.
"Transformers: The Last Knight Writer Denied Credit by WGA, Writer Just Shrugs"
 
Let me have this. Damn. I want a good Thor movie.
 
Must be a good movie. Doubt she would be this upset if her name was going to be attached to a pile of shit.
But seriously, I think getting a story credit in a major blockbuster movie (even if it's not so good) is a pretty big deal to a newcomer writer and would look great in their resume.
 
Update: September 13, 2017

THOR: RAGNAROK Writer Denied Credit by Writers Guild of America, Cries Foul


Absent an unexpected thunderbolt from the sky, the WGA’s hammer has dropped and its judgment is likely to remain unchanged.

This reference, i like it.

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@Dragonlordxxxxx I think it's time to for you to slide right in those DM's of her and be the sympathetic ear.. chick ain't bad looking, has a dog, likes movies, is in the business.. it's your perfect way into that world.

Make sherdog proud and get us that Namor movie.

Now go like our proud sherdog Valkyrie (yes it appears we can change the lore any way we want too, so he a male Valkyrie think about it not a bad deal 1 dude in that crowd).

Mind you I'm sleep deprived for some good time now.

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But seriously, I think getting a story credit in a major blockbuster movie (even if it's not so good) is a pretty big deal to a newcomer writer and would look great in their resume.

As the article says, there's also money to consider. If you get a writing credit, then you also get a percentage of the film's profits.
 
Dragon link me the Batman vs superman thread


Brilliant marketing campaign behind this movie.

Weird 80s vibe with some foreign influence all over it.

Someone in the marketing and promotions department needs a raise or bonus.
Theyre just copying guardians of the galaxy
 
They kinda are, tonally.


I was hoping for an Apocalyptic feel from Ragnarok leading into Infinity Wars - this is all bright, retro and fun .....LIKE GOTG.


Still looks good, though.


Also Has an old school video game vibe to it as well. Like the cover of a game from Nintendo. Thor has a lot of different 80s concepts going.

Similar characteristics but different from gotg
 
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