Anna Daniels
As mentioned, there aren’t any details on hand about Bale’s potential role in Thor: Love and Thunder. But when has a lack of concrete information ever stopped the internet from speculating until its wheels fall off? That’s what Marvel fans are beginning to do now, with a popular idea already starting to take shape: Bale might portray the central villain of the forthcoming Thor movie.
An antagonistic role wouldn’t be out of Bale’s wheelhouse — he did perfectly capture the calculated savageness of serial killer Patrick Bateman in American Psycho – and it wouldn’t be out of the realm of reality for Thor: Love and Thunder to have a prominent big bad, given even the little we know about the movie’s plot. Since Jane Foster is set to take up the Thor mantle in the film, it’s likely that Love and Thunder will follow the Marvel Comics storylines in which she does just that. One such issue, December 2015’s The Mighty Thor #2, featured Jane facing off against Cul, the God of Fear who just so happens to be the uncle of Thor. Could Bale be up for that role? Perhaps!
It’s just as likely that he’ll play some other dirty-rotten dude — like Dario Agger, the wealthy CEO of Roxxon Energy Corporation who took on the form of a Minotaur after his parents were killed by pirates (yes, really) and eventually attracted negative attention from S.H.I.E.L.D. environmental agent Rosalind Solomon and Thor himself. The folks at IGN are behind this idea, as well as the notion that Bale could play Gorr the God Butcher instead.
Of course, there are a number of other characters Bale might portray in Thor: Love and Thunder – one of Marvel’s many Thors, Beta Ray Bill, is a big contender — but for now, with nothing confirmed, all we can do is sit and think about the possibilities.
Thor: Love and Thunder is scheduled to open in theaters on November 5, 2021.
Written by: Looper
