Kevin Feige, the Pres­i­dent of Pro­duc­tion at Mar­vel Stu­dios, recently spoke to Empire to fill us in on their upcom­ing fea­tures — inform­ing us that cast­ing deci­sions on Loki, Odin and the main female role will be made shortly (Natalie Port­man and Josh Hart­nett are rumored). Pro­duc­tion is likely to begin at the start of next year.

“We will prob­a­bly be hav­ing cast announce­ments in the next month or so on Thor,” he told us. “We’re look­ing to cast Loki and Odin soon, and the main female role. And we’ll also hope­fully have lock­down shortly, gear­ing towards the begin­ning of pro­duc­tion, which will be early next year. So I think there will be a lot of announce­ments between now and then.”

“But [direc­tor Ken­neth] Branagh’s here, we’re prep­ping, and he’s put together some spec­tac­u­lar ani­mat­ics already for our first action scene. We’re dig­ging into the sec­ond and third now, and we are just embark­ing on a rewrite of the draft.”