Chris Hemsworth has signed on to look within the upcoming sci-fi thriller ‘The Corsair Code’.
The 40-year-old actor has signed as much as seem within the “high-octane, sci-fi thriller journey”, which is predicated on a brief story by Jonathan Tropper, with the ‘Adam Challenge’ author additionally penning the screenplay and producing the venture by means of his personal Tropper Ink outfit.
Chris can even function producer alongside his enterprise accomplice Ben Grayson, 42, by means of their firm Wilde State, and will probably be made by Apple Studios after Apple Unique Movies acquired the rights to the film.
The Australian star was most not too long ago seen in George Miller’s ‘Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga’, by which he starred reverse Anya Taylor-Pleasure because the villainous Dementus.
Reflecting on the function, the actor revealed he liked having the prospect to play an antagonist after years of portraying the heroic god Thor within the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
He informed SFX journal: “It was considerably liberating and refreshing to sort of shed the heroic Thor house and rework into one thing completely different, and never need to be restricted by the expectations of the hero, guess. The primary time I learn the script, I felt an enormous quantity of artistic impulses and concepts effervescent up, after which my conversations with George.
“This went on for a few years earlier than we began taking pictures. I by no means had the luxurious to sit down with a personality for 2, three years earlier than having truly stepped on set, so there was lots effervescent underneath the floor.”
Regardless of having fun with the “departure” from Thor, the ‘Transformers One’ star admitted it took him fairly some time to familiarize yourself along with his new villain.
He defined: “In contrast to different scripts, I did not fairly know who the character was. I saved having completely different concepts. Then the subsequent week, one thing would contradict that.
“Two weeks out from taking pictures, I obtained actually nervous as a result of I hadn’t clicked on what this character was. George prompt I journal in first individual because the character and see what comes up. About 1am one night time, I could not sleep, and I grabbed my notepad and simply began pen to paper and did not assume a lot of it.
“[I] awakened the subsequent morning and was fairly shocked by what I’d give you in that half-sleep state. I confirmed it to George, and we immediately went, ‘Ah, that is the route …’ and that now informs the why of the character.”
