Fans Are Hopeful For Heimdall’s Return In ‘Love and Thunder’
By George Robbins
This upcoming year is going to be a big one for movies, even if a large majority of them don’t even end up releasing because of all of the upcoming projects. There are many movies that have unfortunately been pushed back into next year or even 2022 because of this pandemic and the fear that movie theaters won’t be able to drum up customers. Those two things go hand-in-hand and it is not so much of a surprise to see that most studios are trying their best to get their films to release to large crowds. That is pretty much the goal of any studio; to get people to go out, or at least want to go out, to see a new movie of theirs especially if it is a bigger film that a lot of effort and money went into. If there are no people going out to movie theaters then why would they even bother with trying to release to theaters, especially with their bigger films.
As of now, most studios have about three options on the table: release anyway and then release digitally after a few weeks, release their film digitally, or wait for a better release window where movie theaters may be able to get more business. Obviously the third option is the best option, but it is the option that would take the longest for them to do successfully because of the implications behind it. Those implications mainly being that studios kind of need money to function and they are losing money by not releasing any of their films waiting for something that may not come for a long time yet. In the meantime, they have yet to actually stop any future productions because there would be no point in doing so since having more movies in their catalog works out for them in the long run. The start of the next year is going to be a strong one as many movies are going to be starting up production.
Among the movies that will be starting filming in early 2021 is one ‘Thor: Love and Thunder‘ which is going to be the fourth entry for the Thor series of Marvel Cinematic Universe films. The movie is meant to start filming in January with some actors and crew even showing up for filming in Australia already. A recent set of photos of director Taika Waititi and actor Idris Elba has sparked a big online conversation now that discusses the possibility of Elba’s character Heimdall returning to the series in some way. As many well know, Heimdall was killed by Thanos at the start of the ‘Infinity War’ movie and thus, we expected him to have completely been put out of the series. However, these new photos have many fans clamoring for news in regards to this meeting because it could end up meaning the return of the character. While it may have been a small role, Elba had a role that many people loved and felt was important to Thor’s stories so they are hopeful for his return even if it is a small bit.