Why Chiwetel Ejiofor's New Show Will Be So Familiar To Thor Fans
Warning: SPOILERS for The Man Who Fell To Earth Episode 1 — «Hallo Spaceboy»
Many aspects of Chiwetel Ejiofor's new Showtime TV show, The Man Who Fell To Earth, will be familiar to fans of Thor. Based upon the 1963 novel by Walter Tevis, The Man Who Fell To Earth is an expansion of the 1976 cult classic film starring David Bowie as Thomas Jerome Newton and directed by Nicholas Roeg. InThe Man Who Fell To Earth, Ejiofor plays Faraday, an alien from the planet Anthea who comes to the third rock from the sun to save us and his own homeworld from an environmental catastrophe.
2011's Thor was one of the first Marvel Cinematic Universe films and it introduced the concept of the Asgardian gods of Norse mythology to the MCU. Long before writer-director Taika Waititi successfully revamped Thor to take advantage of Chris Hemsworth's natural comedic talents, the original Thor movie was director Kenneth Branagh's blend of science and myth, where the God of Thunder is banished to Earth without his powers to teach him humility. Thor meets astrophysicist Jane Foster (Natalie Portman) and they quickly develop romantic feelings in what was the MCU's first foray in the rom-com genre. Meanwhile, Loki (Tom Hiddleston) took over Asgard and sent the Destroyer to kill Thor, while the thunder god's presence on Earth is also being tracked by S.H.I.E.L.D. As an early MCU movie,Thor holds up better than its sequel, Thor: The Dark World, and it was an important milestone that led to The Avengers in 2012.
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Whether intentional or not by director Alex Kurtzman and his co-writing partner, Jenny Lumet, The Man Who Fell To Earth's premiere episode, «Hallo Spaceboy,» is very reminiscent of
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