Thor 2 being directed by a woman, OMGONOES!

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At least, so I suspect will be the response from at least one guy in every forum, as if Kenneth Branagh was a badass action director.

It's hard to see a downside to Patty Jenkins, since the appeal of Thor was the family dynamics and not the action. Putting an auteur in the director's seat, while not always a pay-off (Hulk, X-Men Origins: Wolverine) at least can give a movie more ambitions than just being an oversized fan film (Daredevil, Elektra, Ghost Rider... the Mark Steven Johnson oeuvre, I like to call it). Feminism-wise, it's always good to see a female storyteller get work and it's hard not to imagine that someone who made LESBIAN CHARLIZE THERON SERIAL KILLER into an Oscar-winner could at least bring some tact to a potentially problematic character like, say, Hela or the Enchantress. It would just be nice if such a villain's motivation ran to more than "Thor's semen." Oh, Jeph Loeb!

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[colonel-green.livejournal.com]

I'll be interested to see how she does with it.

If nothing else, maybe this'll jumpstart her return to the film world, as she's been doing TV since the success of Monster in 2003.

[missnox.livejournal.com]

Maybe this is just because I'm a woman ;) but I look forward to Thor 2 now.