During an appearance at Cannes to promote his new film Blood Father, Mel Gibson spoke to The Guardian, during which the conversation drifted towards superhero movies, and whether Gibson himself has ever been offered a role.
“Yeah, long time ago, to play Thor’s dad, but I didn’t do it,” he replied, before sharing his opinion on the current crop of superhero films and Hollywood in general: “Some are good. Some are kind of funny… Guardians of the Galaxy. Or the first Iron Man. And some of them are just like retreats. I mean you can watch them do Spider-Man five times… There is a slight shift in film. But, then again, I think all films are suffering from people not being able to now open them with their name. It’s a different kind of business these days…I think you used to get more variety of stories, films and performances. You had more of a chance of a profound film experience. But that’s not gone. I think that has been relegated to the independent world – but they have to do it twice as fast for half the money.”
The role of Odin was of course eventually filled by Anthony Hopkins, although it’s unclear whether Gibson is referring to the Marvel Studios release, given that there were various attempts to bring the God of Thunder to the big screen prior to the MCU, tracing all the way back to Sam Raimi in the early 90s.
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Originally published May 27, 2016. Updated April 15, 2018.
