I'll be honest: I'm a comic book fan, but I was puzzled as to how they'd adapt Thor and it not fail miserably in execution and box office returns, but with Kenneth Branagh directing, this could be a completely different thing.

Either we'll see ol' Sir Ken go the route of directing a DeMille Superhero movie, since the screenwriter has described it as a Norse/Biblical Epic wherein a God awakens...or we'll see his followup to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, which I didn't hate as much as others did, but I can't say I found it memorable.

Up until this point I haven't been able to see this thing working without someone like originally-attached helmer Matthew Vaughn, but this may be an excellent fit. Maybe we could then look forward to Branagh playing Jarvis in the Avengers flick. Karl Urban for the med student-turned Thunder God?