Scheduled to release in July with no promotions hitting the market yet, a theater used a fan edit poster to keep the buzz around Thor: Love & Thunder going.
The fake poster was spotted by Twitter user @butterbarr at a movie theater. While fans not well-versed with Marvel’s current promotions would think it was real, the poster was originally made by someone on the online art community platform, DeviantArt.
User MarvelMango posted his Thor 4 art on DeviantArt. It includes Heimdall, Guardians of the Galaxy characters, Korg, Natalie Portman as Jane Foster, and even Gorr the God Butcher (who will be essayed by Christian Bae).
Ardent fans would know that Heimdall is dead—there’s no way he could be in the upcoming Thor movie. The theater having the Thor 4 poster up on the big screen with Idris Elba’s Heimdall was a dead giveaway of it being fake.
However, the funny promotional tactic has led to fans making their assumptions and photoshopped posters.
Twitter user @lilienthefox posted the poster that included Jacob Batalon’s Ned on Thor’s left shoulder. Many fans commented that they were sure the poster with Ned was the real poster—all in jest.
The theater’s tactic to engage fans with Thor 4 seems to have worked out. There’s a considerable amount of buzz around the movie now, and fans wonder if it will be given the same treatment as SpiderMan: No Way Home – no news or promotional activities before a month or two.
Two Marvel projects – Moon Knight in March and the highly anticipated Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness in May—are gearing up for a release before Thor 4. It looks like the team is focused on the two projects’ promotions for now.
That’s not to say Thor: Love & Thunder won’t have its own time to shine—it definitely will, just after the two projects, it seems. Meanwhile, fans have fake posters to satisfy their curiosity and imagination.
About Thor: Love and Thunder
Thor: Love and Thunder is a MCU movie and the fourth installation in the Thor series. It is directed by Ragnarok’s director, Taika Waititi, and will show Chris Hemsworth and Natalie Portman reprising their roles as Thor Odinson and Dr. Jane Foster.
The movie will be based on The Mighty Thor comics in which Thor Odinson loses the ability to lift Mjolnir, and Jane Foster takes on the role of Mighty Thor. After the events of Avengers: Endgame, Thor teams up with The Guardians of the Galaxy for a short time, leaving Valkyrie as the ruler of New Asgard. But Thor returns to team up with Korg, Valkyrie and Jane’s Mighty Thor to take down Gorr the God Butcher (Christian Bale) – before he takes out all the gods in existence.
Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson return for Watiti’s second go, while Russell Crowe and Natalie Portaman join Taika’s project for the first time. The movie is out on July 8, 2022.
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