As much as I liked Chris Hemsworth as Thor, I had to wonder what might have been if Alexander Skarsgard had nabbed the role. He was born to play a Viking warrior, and one of the most enjoyable forays True Blood took last season was into Eric Northman’s lusty Viking longhouse.
He’s finally getting his chance to sail for distant shores on the big screen, as Variety reports he’s signed onto a Warner Bros Viking flick called The Vanguard. Penned by Chris Boal, the story follows two Viking brothers who are exiled to North America. They decide the untamed West isn’t to their liking, and decide to make their way home to Sweden. Other details are being kept under wraps, but comparisons to Braveheart and Gladiator are being thrown around.
I’m excited. There just hasn’t been a Viking movie that really does justice to my raping and pillaging ancestors. We haven’t gotten our Gladiator (though we did get our arthouse flick in Valhalla Rising, and that’s something the Spartans and Romans can’t claim) and it’s about time we did.
Skoal, Skarsgard! Do us proud, and the world might just forget about Abba.
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He doesn’t exude charm like Chemsworth, he’s kind of cold. Wouldn’t have worked for Thor.
I said the same thing until this current season of True Blood, where a silly plot device has allowed him to be downright cuddly and charming. It’s the best he’s been on the show.
Haven’t seen the new season so I’ll take your word for it. I felt the same way you do that Skaarsgard was robbed of the role before the movie came out. But after, I just couldn’t picture him in the role anymore because of what Chemsworth brought to it.
He is rather cuddly and charming, isn’t he? Cuddly, charming, and lethal. Though I maintain the best decision they ever made on True Blood was to cut his ridiculous first season hair.
Has ‘Chemswoth’ become the internet nickname for Chris Hensworth or do motherfuckers think his name is really ‘Chemsworth’? Have I missed a joke somewhere in this rusty landscape?
Haha, no, I’m just dumb with the spelling.
That is true. Cuddly and charming wouldn’t have worked with that limp, dead animal on his head.
True Blood: We don’t have a wig budget.
I think Hemsworth aced the part of Thor. Skarsgard would have been different, but I doubt he would’ve been better.
Too late – he is forever after to be known as “Chemsworth”. Even on movie posters.
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