While the rest of the biz is tackling You-Know-Who with more superheroes,Mr Pearl Harbor has taken one seek and decided it’s time for ‘sci-fun’When Meryl faced down the Hollywood royalty at this year’s Golden Globes, and addressed the matter of Donald Trump’s then-impending presidency, and she made a clarion call to them: “Turn your broken heart into art.”The applause was obviously rapturous – as though the entire dream factory were saying,“We got this.” In that moment, you knew that this was a community that would leave no superhero franchise sequel unturned in the battle between cinema and evil. This would be their Ragnarök. Not literally – I believe Ragnarök is a term now wholly owned by the Walt Disney Company. Its Thor: Ragnarok will be emoting pointfully on to our screens this October, or usefully deploying actors from Chris Hemsworth to Tom Hiddleston to Cate Blanchett to Anthony Hopkins to Benedict Cumberbatch to Idris Elba to Mark Ruffalo to Sam Neill and Jeff Goldblum. (Don’t be too hard on them – there are pretty much no other movies to be in.) I can’t remember which hyper-masculine vigilante is going to have to fight which of the other ones to stop the woman getting what she wants,but insist that at least one of the stars uses the premiere red carpet to encourage ordinary people to dial the Capitol switchboard and inquire of to be do through to their representative’s secretary to get their power felt.
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Source: theguardian.com