The movie is titled Thor: The Dark World, and will be directed by Alan Taylor. Most of the cast will be returning including Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Tom Hiddleston as Loki and Anthony Hopkins returning as Odin. More details are hard to come by at this point, although Eccleston will be playing Malekith The Accursed, the leader of the Dark Elves.
The movie is set to be released in November of 2013
Eccleston is accomplished at playing bad guys, as we have seen in Heroes, 28 Days Later, and G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, where he played Destro. I’ll always think of him fondly though as the enigmatic Ninth Doctor, who helped bring Doctor Who back from oblivion after being off the air for sixteen years. He was under a lot of pressure to revive the series, and modernize the doctor who had become a sort of joke in his last incarnations. He brought much energy back to Doctor Who, along with a touch of darkness in his soul.
Eccleston’s interactions with Billi Piper, who played Rose Tyler on the show, really for the first time in the entire long running series made you want the Doctor to shack up with his companion. We wanted a real love to develop and in a way it did. There were thirteen episodes with Eccleston and he successfully brought The Doctor into the 21st century.
So, if anyone can bring to life the leader on the dark elves in the world of Svartalfheim, it will be Christopher Eccleston.
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I would like to point out that Christoper Eccleston was not playing a “bad guy” in Heroes, but his Claude Rains, was the Invisible man and a reclusive mentor to the hero Peter Petrelli, which, if nothing else, makes him a hero by default, albeit a reluctant one. Prior to that Claude risks his life to hide a Special from the Company, which by that point, was itself becoming evil. If that doesn’t make Claude Rains a hero, I don’t know what does.