Neil Gaiman Reveals That He Worked on a Scrapped Thor Animated Series
While Marvel Studios officially made the jump into animation with 2021’s What If…?, it turns out that the studio had considered creating animated series for years.
One such project would have been a Thor prequel series set before the events of the 2011 MCU debut of the God of Thunder.
Neil Gaiman Was Writing a Thor Series
Responding to a fan’s question on Tumblr, author Neil Gaiman revealed that once upon a time, the acclaimed author set out to write the Thor animated series.
“Long ago — around 2006 — I was asked to create a Thor animated cartoon, and I got all excited, and the brief was it had to be set before the Thor movie,” he stated. “I did a deep Thor dive, reread everything Jack Kirby drew, came up with a whole story shape that ran a few seasons showing young Loki going from hero-worshipping his big brother to Going to the Bad,” he revealed.
A Thor animated series rooted in Jack Kirby and written by a famous author seems like a no-brainer for Marvel. So what went wrong?
“Then they told me I wasn’t actually allowed to have any of the characters at any point be different in any way from how they were in the Thor movie, so I said no thank you and stopped,” Gaiman explained.
Could Marvel Revive the Idea?
While both Thor and Loki would eventually make the jump into animation for Disney XD’s The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes and Avengers Assemble, in addition to the aforementioned What If…?, a series exploring their formative years on Asgard sounds like a ton of fun.
With Marvel buffing up its animated roster this year, perhaps the studio will revisit the idea of a Thor series at some point. Nearly 13 years after Thor and Loki debuted, the characters continue to be among Marvel’s most popular.
With Hemsworth and Tom Hiddleston nearing the end of their MCU runs, bringing the characters to animation could be the perfect way to continue their stories.
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