.....Stuart Townsend! Queen of the Damned "star" Stuart Townsend has walked from the set of Thor the weekend before filming citing creative differences with the director.
Quite what this guy was thinking is beyond me. He's an actor of limited ability with no real star power that landed a role in what might be a major film next year. The last big film he was in was....hold on....let me check.....NOTHING!
Townsend was due to play Fandral, one of Thor's three allies but is now off the project and has been replaced already by Josh Dallas who was last seen in the Descent pt2.
To be honest i'm not terrible excited by the Thor project. It does seem like the period when studios were buying up every comic property they could lay their hands on is now starting to come to fruition and they are choosing the most likely to draw back gross through blockbuster status and audience familiarity. So i guess Thor was close to the top of the pile. It has already garnered an impressive cast list in the forms of Anthony Hopkins, Samuel L Jackson, Stellan Skarsgard and Kat Dennings but the only reason i can see me parking my backside to watch Thor for two hours is Natalie Portman, who plays the norse gods love interest.
And too many movies sign on big names to bluff creative gold to the paying public. But let's not forget that even highly credible actors like their stars to shine and all participate in big name summer movies from time to time to ensure that their names are still fresh in the faces of the populace.