Marvel Legend To Cameo In 'Thor'

Published on December 7, 2009 by Martyn Conterio · View Comments

PH2009011301751 It’s as predictable as the tides: comic book master Stan Lee will make a cameo appearance in Kenneth Branagh’s Thor. Announced via Twitter, Lee wrote: “Kenneth Branagh (of course I call him “Ken!”) said my cameo’s set for the upcoming Thor movie. –To him, it’s a cameo, to me– it’s a ROLE!”

Lee has been in every Marvel film this past decade, so it’s no great shock to hear this. Branagh, however, is a bizarre choice for a Marvel comic adaptation. The Shakespearean actor and director will no doubt bring a deeper texture to the drama that, perhaps, others might not have been able too.

Branagh’s work away from Shakespeare has a ropey history. Frankenstein was almost-too faithful to the original text, and who remembers Dead Again? Marvel are taking a huge gamble, no matter how talented the man is. It’s always fun spotting Stan Lee in the films he had a great hand in creating, but he’ll never top his small part in Kevin Smith’s Mallrats.