‘Thor’ Gets His Warriors Three

Published by Jeff Leins on: November 17th, 2009

Ray Stevenson (Punisher: War Zone), Stuart Townsend (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen), and Tadanobu Asano (Mongol) are set to play the Warriors Three in Marvel’s Thor, directed by Kenneth Branagh.

The Warriors Three are a team of Asgardian gods that play a supporting role to Thor, the God of Thunder.  According to Variety, Townsend will play Fandral the Dashing, a dashing swordsman Stan Lee based on Errol Flynn.  Stevenson is set as Volstagg the Valiant, an obese warrior with superhuman strength based on the William Shakespeare character Falstaff.  Asano is Hogun the Grim, a maceman with a resistance to physical injury based on the characters of actor Charles Bronson.

I’m not particularly familiar with Townsend, but Stevenson was excellent in “Rome” before he tried to make it with another awful Punisher pic and Asano was brilliant in the epic Mongol, something you should check out if you enjoyed Braveheart.

The rest of the cast is more or less in place to start shooting this January.  Chris Hemsworth (Thor), Tom Hiddleston (Loki), Natalie Portman (Jane Foster), Anthony Hopkins (Odin), Jamie Alexander (Sif), Colm Feore, and Stellan Skarsgard.