guy they didn’t know, sporting a scraggly beard and wearing a T-shirt, jeans, and Chuck Taylor sneakers. But when he opened his mouth and spoke in a resonant, well-modulated British accent, the screenwriters realized it was Branagh. They got the job and started working with him, debating essential questions such as Thor’s role in the modern world and the name of Thor’s hammer. “One of my most vivid memories of those notes sessions,” Stentz said, “was Branagh didn’t like the name Mjölnir because it’s difficult to pronounce. He turned to all of us and asked, ‘Do we have to call the hammer
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