conceptual images for Thor Leaked

The Mighty Thor

On the heels of AICN leaking conceptual images of the Captain America suit, we are now getting some conceptual images of Chris Hemsworth as Thor from Collider.com.  Whenthe initial photo of him was leaked back in April, we only got to see a small amount of the Thor suit, but these conceptual pictures show the whole enchilada.

What's kind of cool about these conceptual images, is that Mjolner seems to be glowing with pent up electricity.  You'll probably also notice that Mjolner's handle is also glowing, as is part of Thor's suit.  It will be interesting to see if this part of the conceptual art will make it into the film itself, or if will be discarded sometime during production.  And Thor's helmet seems to be glaringly absent from the initial "leaked" photo, as well as from the conceptional images.  It makes you wonder if the production and art direction teams are planning on not having Hemsworth wear it.  This would be a rather strange move for them to make, since the suit itself seems to be so much of an homage to the comic.  So, perhaps we'll just have to wait to see the helmet until a little closer to the film's release date.

Also, with so many details about conceptual art and plot points being "leaked" lately over comic book heroes and their upcoming films, one has to wonder if this is just one giant attempt by the studios to gauge fan reactions.  Or maybe their hoping to create a little bit of a frenzy over the upcoming films, since so many of the recent and upcoming Marvel films seem to be tied together (and maybe DC is hoping to get some of the frenzy for themselves).