Thor Director Taika Waititi Compares Gorr’s Look To Voldemort’s

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Ever since the official trailer for the upcoming MCU flick Thor: Love and Thunder gave us the first look at Christian Bale’s Gorr, the God Butcher, the fans had plenty to say about the villain’s look. Although no one doubts that Christian Bale will be fantastic in this role, the fans couldn’t have overseen that Gorr is visually pretty similar to the main villain of the Harry Potter saga, you-know-who, he-who-must-not-be-named, Voldemort.

Some of the fans said that Gorr looks like Voldemort with a nose, and an interesting fact is that Gorr has no nose in the source material. Also, while Voldemort has a wand, Gorr has a sword. The Gorr’s look was changed a bit in the movie compared to the source material, and the movie’s director now explained those changes and compared Gorr’s look to Voldemort’s.

Although he said he isn’t interested in doing more comic book movies after The Dark Knight trilogy, Christian Bale accepted the role of Gorr after he was impressed with the script. Bale was officially confirmed to star in 2020, and his involvement in the MCU movie certainly drew a lot of attention outside of the Marvel fandom.

“Thor embarks on a journey unlike anything he’s ever faced — a quest for inner peace. However, his retirement gets interrupted by Gorr the God Butcher, a galactic killer who seeks the extinction of the gods. To combat the threat, Thor enlists the help of King Valkyrie, Korg, and ex-girlfriend Jane Foster, who — to his surprise — inexplicably wields his magical hammer. Together, they set out on a harrowing cosmic adventure to uncover the mystery of the God Butcher’s vengeance.” — Thor: Love and Thunder, official synopsis

Thor: Love and Thunder is the fourth solo movie for MCU’s God of Thunder, which makes Thor the first MCU hero to get four standalone movies. Chris Hemsworth reprises the role of God of Thunder, Tessa Thompson reprises the role of Valkyrie, and Natalie Portman and Jaimie Alexander reprise the roles of Jane Foster and Lady Sif, respectively, after being absent from the previous installment — Thor: Ragnarok. Co-writer and director Taika Waititi also returns as Korg.

Co-written and directed by Taika Waititi, Thor: Love and Thunder is set to be released exclusively in theaters on July 8, 2022.

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Lukas Abramovich is a freelance writer and photo and video editor based in Croatia. He's also a web designer and holds a Master’s degree in general Computer Science from the Faculty of Informatics based in Pula, Croatia. Since 2018, Lukas has worked on several portals writing about movies, TV shows, and video games. He's currently writing articles for two of them: Fiction Horizon and Comic Basics. He also has a YouTube channel in his native language, and the content there is mostly reviewing popular movies and TV shows. Lukas also has an Instagram page where he once used to post fan-made posters he made, which is something he would like to continue working on, as photo and video editing are also some of his passions. Lukas is a big movie lover who is okay with watching any kind of movie. His favorite movie is Michael Curtiz's Casablanca, but he's a loyal follower of Marvel and DC movies, as well as several other blockbuster franchises he's been following for years; Star Wars, Fast & Furious, Mission: Impossible, and James Cameron's Avatar are only some of them. His favorite director is Christopher Nolan, with Quentin Tarantino and Denis Villeneuve as honorable mentions. Lukas is also a big fan of four fantasy multimedia franchises; The Wizarding World, A Song of Ice and Fire, The Witcher, and The Lord of the Rings. He calls them "the four rulers of the fantasy genre." He loves to write about anything spawned from those franchises (books, games, movies...), as well as anything branded with the Marvel or DC logo. Video games and their adaptations are also something he follows faithfully since he's a big fan of story-driven single-player games like Assassin's Creed, The Last of Us, Uncharted, etc. His favorite video game ever is Red Dead Redemption 2.