Thor Trailer Hits Web - Looks Darn Tremendous

The trailer for Thor, previewed at Comic-Con 2010 last Saturday (July 24) hit the Web for swhile until it was pulled by Marvel and Paramount. But darn if it doesn't look tremendous.
The film directed by Kenneth Branagh appears to be both epic and intimate in spots. 
From S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Agent Coulson (Clark Gregg from Iron Man films) interrogating Thor (Chris Hemsworth) to a regal Odin (Anthony Hopkins), trickster Norse god Loki (Tom Hiddleston), Jane Foster (Natalie Portman) and also right out of Thor comics over the years, The Destroyer ("unregistered technology," Coulson says. Yeah, right), so fanboys and fangirls can start to go giddy. The clip indicates the death of Odin, though I think it''ll turn out to be "Odinsleep." But any trailer that makes you want to watch it again and again means this could be a great movie adaptation of Marvel's most Shakespeare-like series and it's hard to imagine anyone but Branagh (okay, maybe Peter Jackson) getting it right. And it looks like he has.
For the best Thor material, start with the Stan Lee-Jack Kirby 1960s Marvel Masterworks collections and also the 1980s run by Walt Simonson collected in the Marvel Visonaries. 
Thor's majestic hammer Mjolnir was seen in the post-credits tag ending of Iron Man 2 and the God of Thunder will appear in The Avengers, directed by Joss Whedon. Thor is set for release May 2011. The five-minute trailer was up at various times on different sites Thursday and embedded by others, including here, until finally yanked by the studios. But considering the massive positive reaction all around, it wouldn't be surprising to see the official trailer up and going around very soon.