Thor: Ragnarok Pitch Meeting

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**Thor: Ragnarok Pitch Meeting** is the second episode of the Pitch Meeting series on Screen Rant. It's also the second time a movie of the superhero genre was the focus of a Pitch Meeting episode, as well as being the first Marvel movie to have an episode made about it.

## Cast

* Producer Guy - Ryan George
* Screenwriter Guy - Ryan George

## Quotes

* "What I did was take Chris Hemsworth from Thor, then I took Chris Hemsworth from Ghostbuster and I kinda just swished them into one character" - Screenwriter Guy
* "In the middle of a spaceship battle, they're gonna talk about orgies" - Screenwriter Guy
* "When I was writing, they were playing a 'Whose Line Is It Anyway?' marathon on TV, so I got a little distracted" - Screenwriter Guy

## Trivia

* This is the first Pitch Meeting for a Marvel movie
* This is the first Pitch Meeting for a Marvel Cinematic Universe movie
* Producer Guy and Screenwriter Guy mention enjoying the show *Whose Line Is It Anyway?*
* This is one of the few Pitch Meetings where Producer Guy and Screenwriter Guy directly interact, with Screenwriter Guy handing his script to Producer Guy

**Producer Guy:** 'Kay, so tell me about this *Thor* script.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Right, so it's called… *Ragnarok*.

**Producer Guy:** Bless you.

**Screenwriter Guy:** No, "Ragnarok" basically means "the apocalypse on Asgard".

**Producer Guy:** *[dissatisfied]* Oh.

**Screenwriter Guy:** What's wrong?

**Producer Guy:** It's just that it sounds pretty dark and we're looking for kind of a lighter tone here.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Oh no, this is a straight-up comedy!

**Producer Guy:** It is?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah, literally any moment that could potentially be a little dramatic is either turned into or followed by a joke.

**Producer Guy:** So you can't really take anything seriously at all?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Not really, no.

**Producer Guy:** Perfect, 'cause we have a comedy director we really wanna work with on this.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Who's that?

**Producer Guy:** Taika Waititi.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Bless you.

**Producer Guy:** That's not- Never mind.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Oh.

**Producer Guy:** So tell me about the new direction you're taking the "Thor" character in.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Right, so what I did was take Chris Hemsworth from *Thor*…

**Producer Guy:** Okay.

**Screenwriter Guy:** …then I took Chris Hemsworth from *Ghostbusters*…

**Producer Guy:** Right.

**Screenwriter Guy:** …and I kinda just squished them into one character.

**Producer Guy:** Amazing. So he's a lot dumber now?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Oh yeah, he's a lot dumber. Like the movie starts with him talking to a skeleton.

**Producer Guy:** Oh, like as a joke?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Kinda, but there's also nobody else around so it's like "Who's he doing this bit for?".

**Producer Guy:** So it just comes across as dumb.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Exactly, so it's like either Thor is very stupid or it's a really lazy joke that doesn't actually make sense in the scene.

**Producer Guy:** *[joking]* It's not the second one, is it? *[chuckles]*

**Screenwriter Guy:** *[chuckles]* *[nervously clears throat]*

**Producer Guy:** So listen, before we get too deep into the story we do have to address a big plot thread from the last *Thor* movie.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Loki.

**Producer Guy:** Yeah, he's impersonating his father and ruling Asgard, I imagine it's gonna be pretty hard for Thor to deal with.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Actually super easy, barely an inconvenience.

**Producer Guy:** Oh. What happens?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Well Thor gets back to Asgard and he… figures it out. That's like the first thing he does.

**Producer Guy:** *[brushes hands together, impressed]* Taken care of.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Just like that.

**Producer Guy:** So tell me about the story.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Right, so the main villain in the movie is called Hela, and she's the goddess of death.

**Producer Guy:** Okay, now the main complaint about our movies is that the villains are kinda flat and one-dimensional, so what's Hela's deal?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Oh, you're gonna like this. Basically Hela's deal is that she… is evil.

**Producer Guy:** *[stunned]* Oh, that's good.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah, she's like… super evil. Very very evil.

**Producer Guy:** Sounds like the perfect villain.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah, and she wants to take over Asgard so she does, she- she does that.

**Producer Guy:** Very evil.

**Screenwriter Guy:** And she's really strong so she does it pretty easily too. Like she kills Thor's best friends like it was nothing.

**Producer Guy:** *[concerned]* Oh, but, Thor's gonna be devastated.

**Screenwriter Guy:** You'd think so, but we're never gonna see him react to it, or like, even find out.

**Producer Guy:** *[understanding]* Because that would be dramatic.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah, I really can't overstate how much potential drama we're gonna avoid here.

**Producer Guy:** That's what we want!

**Screenwriter Guy:** Like in the middle of a spaceship battle they're gonna talk about orgies.

**Producer Guy:** Great.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Thor's whole relationship with Jane is like a throwaway joke now.

**Producer Guy:** Oh, she was important too!

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah, super important!

**Producer Guy:** Wow.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Also Bruce Banner probably dies but it's like really funny.

**Producer Guy:** *[confused]* Wait, Bruce Banner is in this?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Oh yeah, I didn't tell you! The Hulk is like a big part of this movie!

**Producer Guy:** Interesting.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah but instead of being a scary monster now he's like a moody baby.

**Producer Guy:** A moody baby? I love it.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah, he talks like one and everything.

**Producer Guy:** Hey, that's what the people asked for.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Is it?

**Producer Guy:** I have no idea. Maybe.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Anyway, Thor ends up on a gladiator planet and most of the movie is them trying to leave with Valkyrie.

**Producer Guy:** Who's Valkyrie?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Oh, she's actually from Asgard and she's fought Hela before!

**Producer Guy:** And she's on the gladiator planet too?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah, she's the one who picks Thor up when he lands there.

**Producer Guy:** That sounds pretty convenient.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Oh, it's super convenient.

**Producer Guy:** Hm.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah, so they go back to Asgard, then they get a demon thing to blow the whole place up and… that's- that's it.

**Producer Guy:** That's it? Can I see that?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Sure. *[hands over the script]*

**Producer Guy:** *[takes the script]* Thank you. *[flips through the script]* Most of these pages are empty.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah, well when I was writing they were playing a *Whose Line Is It Anyway?* marathon on TV so I got a little distracted.

**Producer Guy:** Great show.

**Screenwriter Guy:** But it got me thinking, why don't we just let the actors come up with a lot of this stuff and just kind of end every scene with Thor getting zapped unconscious?

**Producer Guy:** Oh, improv! I love it!

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah, and it should be fun too! 'Cause you know how most movies have like one character that's the comic relief to break the tension?

**Producer Guy:** Mm-hm.

**Screenwriter Guy:** That's gonna be like every single character in this movie.

**Producer Guy:** Everybody?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah, like there's a character who's a pile of rocks. Funniest guy in the film.

**Producer Guy:** *[looking back at the script]* Hey, there's a page here that just says "Goldblum"?

**Screenwriter Guy:** *[embarrassed]* Oh, yeah, there's a character called Grandmaster that I didn't really know how to develop.

**Producer Guy:** Oh, so you want me to get Jeff Goldblum to come be Jeff Goldblum.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah, I figured that would take care of that.

**Producer Guy:** That's smart. I'll see what I can do.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Also you'll see there's a page in there that just says the word "cameo".

**Producer Guy:** *[flips through the script]* Yep.

**Screenwriter Guy:** I just thought it'd be really fun to just have a super super famous person show up for like no reason at all.

**Producer Guy:** For no reason at all?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Exactly, so people in the audience will be like "Hey, isn't that… Why is he- Why is he in this?".

**Producer Guy:** I know just the guy to call.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Awesome.

*[cut to headline: **What is Matt Damon's Cameo in Thor: Ragnarok?**]*