Thor (soundtrack) director Kenneth Branagh's big-screen adaptation of Marvel Comic's iconic Norse superhero Thor with appropriate gravitas. The longtime Branagh collaborator ("Henry V", "Dead Again") sets the stage with "Chasing the Storm," a tense and surging unveiling of the main theme, which sounds a bit like a cross between the James Newton Howard and Hans Zimmer's "Batman Begins" cue and Zimmer's "CheValiers de Sangreal" theme from "The Da Vinci Code", and like Zimmer, Doyle knows how to whip a circular melody into a frenzy. Elsewhere, the lovely and appropriately stoic "Sons of Odin" is awash in traditional fantasy elements, while the epic
Thor (Marvel Comics) a founding member of the superhero team the Avengers, appearing in each volume of that series. The character has also appeared in associated Marvel merchandise including animated television series, movies, video games, clothing, toys and trading cards. The character was first portrayed in live action by Eric Allan Kramer in the 1988 television movie "The Incredible Hulk Returns". Chris Hemsworth portrays Thor Odinson in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films "Thor", "The Avengers", "", "", "Doctor Strange", "", "" and will reprise his role in "" in 2019. Additionally, archival footage of Hemsworth as Thor was used in the episodes "Pilot"