Tyler Mane joked to MTV's Larry Carroll that he might start walking around with a giant hammer in order to persuade Director
Matthew Vaughn and Marvel Films that he’d be perfect to portray a certain god of thunder.
"I could give some people some ideas!" he laughed.
The August 9th announcement that Vaughn (
Stardust) had been tapped to direct
Thor was followed by an online campaign to get the 6'8" blonde wrestler-turned-actor cast in the title role, and, as evidenced by
Michael Chiklis's selection as Thing in
Fantastic Four, Internet buzz sometimes actually plants the idea in studio heads.
Plus, Mane already has his foot in the door, having made his film debut as Sabretooth in
Bryan Singer's
X-Men, another Marvel Comics adaptation. And he's familiar with the Elizabethan-English-spouting Norse god, whose time, he thinks, may have come.
"It depends on how it’s done, and who writes the script," he said. But then he shrugged his shoulders when asked about an offer. "I have not heard anything yet, so we’ll see. Hopefully, somebody’s out there writing it for me."
Vaughn hopes to begin shooting the script by
Mark Protosevich (
I Am Legend) this winter.
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