Natalie Portman will be Thor’s first love, Jane Foster

Posted in Movie news by Harry Potter on Jul 14, 2009 • (0)

The rumor circling around Natalie Portman, suggesting that she is the front runner for a female lead in “Thor”, has been proven true. The latest report coming up from the comic book adaptation confirms the joining of the 28-year-old actress who is best known as the Padme Amidala of “Star Wars Episode I” to “Episode III”.

Natalie Portman will play Jane Foster who, in the cast of Stan Lee and Joe Sinnott’s original comic, was a nurse who fell in love with her doctor colleague, unaware that he was secretly a Norse deity.

Marvel’s Kevin Feige told The Hollywood Reporter that Jane “is the human lead, so to speak, who helps ground the film in reality. We spend a lot of time amongst the other realms of the Nine Worlds of the Thor mythology and she’s our human anchor to that.”

“Thor” is another superhero movie adapted from Marvel comics. Set in present-day Earth as well as the realm of Asgard, it centers its story on Thor, a powerful but arrogant warrior whose reckless actions reignite an ancient war. Punished for his faults, he is cast down to Earth and forced to live among humans but once here, he learns what it takes to be a true hero when the most dangerous villain of his world sends the darkest forces of Asgard to invade Earth.

In the original comics Jane seems to have filled a kind of Pepper Potts/Lois Lane role, a personal nurse to Dr. Donald Blake, who is the alter-ego of Thor when is on Earth. Jane is in love with both Blake and Thor, without realizing, in classic comic book heroine mode, that they are one and the same.

The action fantasy film eyes an early 2010 for the start of its principal photography. Paramount Pictures will distribute the flick in U.S. theaters on May 20, 2011.