WONDER WOMAN Director Patty Jenkins Reveals Her THOR 2 Movie Pitch
Before director Patty Jenkins jumped on board to direct Wonder Woman for DC Entertainment, she was developing Thor 2 for Marvel Studios. She ended up leaving the project and was eventually replaced by Game of Thrones director Alan Taylor.
Thor: The Dark World isn't a favorite among most Marvel fans but I actually really enjoyed it. The movie would have turned out a lot different had Jenkins got to make her version of the film. During a recent interview with BuzzFeed, she revealed that her initial pitch for the film was a Romeo and Juliet type story, saying:
"I pitched them that I wanted to do Romeo and Juliet. I wanted Jane to be stuck on Earth and Thor to be stuck where he is. And Thor to be forbidden to come and save Jane because Earth doesn't matter. And then by coming to save her... they end up discovering that Malekith is hiding the dark energy inside of Earth because he knows that Odin doesn't care about Earth, and so he's using Odin's disinterest in Earth to trick him."
"And so it was like, I wanted it to be a grand [movie] based on Romeo and Juliet... a war between the gods and the earthlings, and Thor saves the day and ends up saving Earth."
Sounds like an interestingly take and it would have been cool to see how that would've turned out. I like that Jenkins' version would've had more of a Shakespearean theme, which would've fit more in with the mythology established by Kenneth Branagh more closely. She goes on to reveal why she ended up leaving the project saying:
"I don’t think I could have made a good movie out of Thor 2 because I wasn’t the right director. And I don’t think I would have been in the running for Wonder Woman as a result. And that’s one of the reasons why I’m glad I didn’t do it because I could have made a great Thor if I could have done the story that I was wanting to do. But I don’t think I was the right person to make a great Thor out of the story they wanted to do."
As much as I liked Thor: The Dark World, this sounds like Jenkins' vision would have been a better take on the sequel. It's kind of a shame that things didn't work out between Marvel Studios and Jenkins on the collaboration, but it looks like she did a great job with Wonder Woman!