He also talks about his new director Alan Taylor (Game of Thrones) and what he thinks about Beta Ray Bill.

We’re glad to see that Marvel already has the ball rolling on Thor 2 and we’re even happier to hear about the meeting between Game of Thrones veteran Alan Taylor and the leading cast!

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From Slashfilm:

“I have read a script and we start shooting in August. I met with Alan Taylor a couple of months ago and Natalie Portman and I and Alan and a couple of Marvel guys and it was hugely exciting. Ken [Branagh] did such a wonderful job and, with scheduling or what have you, he didn’t end up doing this one, but I’m a big fan of the GAME OF THRONES series, which is Alan’s latest work, and I think that is what’s exciting about the second one: making it sort of more tangible and having a more organic feel to Asgard and that world.

I think the science fiction element to THOR… the danger is it falls a little bit into the world of it’s “tough to throw a light to.” I think of big waterfalls and mountains and a Viking influence, where the Norse mythology kind of grew from. Having that in Asgard is going to make it all the more special and that’s what Alan wants to bring to it. I think that would be the new aspect to this one.

That’s not it either, the people over at Zap2It have talked to the god of thunder about how Jane is dealt with in The Avengers, and about a famous villain from the comics that Hemsworth has been reading up on.

“I haven’t seen he script yet, but the big challenge was — we left ‘Thor’ with that hope of Jane Foster (Natalie Portman) on Earth and Thor in another realm kind of somehow getting together. You know, I think the satisfying thing would be to see that happen. Joss (Whedon) did a great job of fostering that and putting her out of the picture for the moment. Also, whatever maturity Thor left in the first film, really being put to the test. I think he would like, now, to be put in the position to take over the throne and be worthy of that position. We’ll see.”

We asked about whether or not this would take place on Asgard and Earth. “The exciting part is that. The ‘Iron Man’ origin story is incredibly entertaining. And ‘Captain America’ and ‘Thor’ — from the comic books, I always found the lighter stuff with Thor to be more interesting, because of all the other realms that he was involved in and the universe and that’s what I look forward to. Traveling across different worlds. I certainly think Earth is his connection. It’s never said in the film, but in the comics and in the early history of it all, I think Thor’s mother is vaguely human. There is some sort of connection there.

We asked if famous “Thor” character Beta Ray Bill might make an appearance in the sequel. “Yeah, that was one of the first comic books I read, actually. But I’ve got to say, I thought, ‘What is this half horse-looking character?’ By the end I said ‘I get this and I like it.’ My first instinct was that I was a bit unsure. He’s the only one who can pick up the hammer. He’s a worthy from another planet. But he looks like a horse,” he laughs.

What do you think? Now why would Hemsworth be reading up on the only other character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe capable of picking up Mjolnir? Could it have anything to do with the sequel?