Taika Waititi Shares Thoughts On Natalie Portman Replacing Chris Hemsworth As Thor

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With the upcoming release of Taika Waititi's Thor: Love and Thunder, the reveal of Natalie Portman's Jane Foster returning to the MCU as Mighty Thor has shocked Marvel's audience, but it's also caused some big questions to arise.

Thor: Love and Thunderdirector Waititi has responded to some of the questions that Marvel fans have had following the release of the trailer. The biggest question of all? What does the future hold for the original God of Thunder now that Jane Foster wields Mjolnir.

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From the trailer for the fourth Thor film, many took away that Portman's Mighty Thor would possibly take over for Chris Hemsworth's Thor. But Waititi has made it clear that isn’t the case. “It's really fun, the idea that Thor has got Stormbreaker, that big ax, and now his hammer’s back, and it’s in the hand of someone else. It’s no longer his hammer. It’s the idea that someone is taking his place. I think a lot of fans are gonna potentially assume, Oh, ok, this is the passing on of the torch,” Waititi said during an interview with Total Film. “I don’t think that's the case.”

Although Thor: Love and Thunder's director has said he doesn’t believe this is a passing of the torch situation, the torch has been passed before within the Marvel Cinematic Universe. This has sort of been seen in the Hawkeye series when Kate Bishop becomes Hawkeye's partner, and the passing of theCaptain America title is seen in both Avengers: Endgame and Falcon and the Winter Soldier.So the question about Thor's title being passed to another is an understandable assumption.

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