‘Thor: Love and Thunder’ Expected to Start Filming Early 2021
By George Robbins
Marvel Studios has a lot of work ahead of them over the course of the next year to year-and-a-half. They have been wanting to work on their upcoming projects in some way for the past few months, but alas they could not due to the new rules in place. Filming has become fairly difficult for any studios, though it is still a possibility given that they follow the new production rules that have been put into place. This has allowed projects like ‘Avatar 2‘ to get back to work back in May and gave James Cameron a chance to work on his film even more. On top of this, projects such as ‘The Batman‘ and ‘Mission: Impossible 7‘ are going to also be starting their productions up again soon. With this in mind, studios like Marvel Studios have a lot to think about moving forward.
One of the biggest blows the studio had to deal with just after the pandemic began was the fact that the film ‘Black Widow‘ was supposed to have released. Instead, the release date for the film was moved to November of this year and people now have to wait in order to see the newest film. This has essentially made all of their marketing seemingly go to waste and they probably won’t run another campaign. Many studios are doing this now because there has really yet to be any new releases in movie theaters. Any releases that were supposed to have happened over the course of the next month have pretty much been delayed again. This is starting to look bad for the studio because it seems like movies through to the end of the year are having their release dates pushed into next year.
All of this negativity doesn’t really help anybody though, so Marvel is still going to be moving forward on their other productions. One of those new productions is ‘Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.’ Before they could really get into production in regards to the film, the pandemic hit and they couldn’t start working on the movie. Now that other productions have managed to start up again, the studio is doing the same for the upcoming film. Although the studio is behind due to not being able to work on the films for months, they are now against the clock as they want to get the film out by some time next year. Unfortunately, if things continue the way that they are, they will not even get to premiere ‘Black Widow’ this year. That isn’t great, but it could give them some leeway in taking their time to make sure the film turns out well.
‘Shang Chi’ isn’t the only film that they have in production as they almost always have something being worked on. Starting next summer, they will be starting production for ‘Ant-Man 3’ despite it not even being listed as an upcoming film. One of the questions on people’s minds after all of this was when production would start on the upcoming ‘Thor: Love and Thunder’ which was announced as an upcoming film. According to those working on the film, they are eyeing an early 2021 time-frame to start production of the movie in Australia. They are hoping that things with the pandemic will clear up enough by then that starting the production around then will be relatively simple. As of now, after being delayed by the pandemic, ‘Thor: Love and Thunder’ is set to release in February of 2022.