Now that I’ve seen what Matthew Vaughn can do in Stardust, I’m there for whatever the guy wants to do next. He worked wonders with Gaiman’s rather silly material. If he can make Stardust that good, the guy can do just about anything. His next anything, according to Variety, will be Thor.

Apparently Marvel believes Matthew Vaughn can work miracles too, because Thor really needs one. Why? Because no one cares. People stopped caring about Thor in 1982. If there’s an audience for this movie, I’ve never met anyone who’s a part of it. The character is a bore and should have been left in a dusty box at the back of Marvel’s classic comic book warehouse. But if Vaughn’s doing it, I guess I’m interested.

The good news for Vaughn is that he’s working off a script written by Mark Protosevich. He wrote the amazing I Am Legend script which was taken, and then rewritten to make it more “Big Willie” for Will Smith. But before Will made them Willify it, the script was brilliant. Together, hopefully Vaughn and Protosevich can work magic on Thor.

Now for those of you who’ve been keeping up with the Thor project… yeah, this is an old story. But for some reason Variety is re-reporting it and that means if we don’t also re-report it the people who didn’t read the original story we ran months ago here will assume we’ve got our heads up our asses. Well it’s Variety, not us, which is engaging in cranial to anal insertion. This is typical for them, at least half their stories these days seem to be news items they’ve lifted from other people and recycled as if they came up with them. I presume they got this from a studio press release, but if they wanted to report something old they could have at least acknowledged that the LA Times broke the story months ago.

The only truly new information I see here is that they’re planning to start production this winter to start for the oh so scary strike everyone in Hollywood keeps using as an excuse to get things done quickly. Don’t take the strike thing seriously, Hollywood isn’t likely to run out of bad movies.