God of War Show Picks Severance's Ólafur Darri Ólafsson to Play Thor

Severance prima Ólafur Darri Ólafsson volition play Thor successful the live-action God of War amusement for Prime Video.

Amazon and Sony announced the formed update today, revealing who volition play the Norse God of Thunder successful its upcoming bid adaptation of the beloved PlayStation franchise. It’s 1 of the biggest updates to the amusement yet, with Ólafsson present acceptable to wield Mjolnir against Ryan Hurst and his portrayal of Kratos.

Olafur Darri Olafsson. Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images.

Ólafsson has been rumored to play Thor for rather immoderate time, and it’s casual to spot why. The histrion has remained a recognizable look successful shows specified arsenic Lady Dynamite and Trapped, arsenic good arsenic movies similar The Meg and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, for years. It wasn’t until his quality arsenic the towering (and terrifying) Mr. Drummond successful Severance Season 2, however, that fans started picturing him arsenic a coagulated prime to play Thor successful God of War.

Thor, who made his God of War debut arsenic a last-minute tease successful the 2018 installment earlier becoming a superior antagonist successful 2022’s God of War Ragnarok, towers implicit adjacent Kratos and is 1 of the astir almighty beings the Ghost of Sparta has fought yet. Amazon’s authoritative statement for its mentation of the quality calls him a “Mountain of a Man” whose “actions successful a warfare fought agelong agone present haunt his waking hours.”

“Once the loyal worker of Asgard and his father’s close manus man, Thor is present but a shadiness of his erstwhile aforesaid arsenic helium drowns himself successful intoxicant and tries not to deliberation of the terms helium paid,” the statement continues. “Keeping his woman and children astatine arm’s magnitude has lone deepened his isolation, but the powerfulness (and danger) of the God of Thunder is inactive determination conscionable beneath the surface.”

In summation to Ólafsson arsenic Thor and Hurst, who antecedently played Thor successful Ragnarok, past casting confirmations revealed that the live-action God of War adaptation volition diagnostic Teresa Palmer arsenic Thor’s wife, Sif, arsenic good arsenic Max Parker arsenic the God of Foresight, Heimdall. Casting for characters similar Mimir, Freya, and Atreus has yet to beryllium announced.

For more, you tin work up connected wherefore we deliberation the Amazon mentation of this communicative needs to instrumentality a caller attack to violence. You tin besides cheque retired what crippled composer Bear McCreary thinks astir the God of War show.

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