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adistantsoil.com - 30 days ago

Great Odin! Fabio as the Mighty Thor! UPDATED

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UPDATE: Mania.com has a very interesting article on this story from 1997! Participants in the project included Mike Mignola and Pamela Anderson! (This thing is so old, I’m not even sure I was on the web back then.) I don’t recall seeing this on any of the comics blogs before. ...

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mania.com - 28 days ago

Flashback Exclusive: Fabio

— mania.com — Flashback Exclusive: Fabio's THOR Toon Pam Anderson! Charleton Heston! Mike Mignola! By Rob M. Worley October 27,... 2009 Here's one that's making the rounds: There were once plans for a ' Thor ' movie starring bare-chested cover model Fabio. Stories ... Flashback Exclusive: Fabio

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movies.spoilertv.com - 28 days ago

Thor - Anthony Hopkins to Play Odin

— movies.spoilertv.com — Anthony Hopkins is in negotiations to play the Norse god Odin in “Thor,” Marvel Studios' adaptation being... directed by Kenneth Branagh. The movie’s story sees the god of thunder Thor, a powerful but arrogant warrior whose reckless actions re-ignite an ancient war. As punishment, Thor is ... Thor - Anthony Hopkins to Play Odin

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slashfilm.com - 27 days ago

Anthony Hopkins to Play Odin in Thor

— slashfilm.com — There’s two bits of Thor casting news in my in-tray but they’re of such completely completely different... scales - think a Smurf sitting on the shoulder of a Na’vi. The big break is that Anthony Hopkins is in negotiations to ... Anthony Hopkins to Play Odin in Thor

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THE BEAT:  How close did the world come to having Fabio play Thor?

Topless Robot:  Fabio Was Thor (Very Briefly)

Cinematical:  Once Upon A Time, Fabio Was 'Thor'

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RT @radtke327: By Ymir's frosty beard! Check out these images of a failed Fabio-financed Thor cartoon. http://is.gd/4EgPA (via @comixace) 30 days ago

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How close did the world come to having Fabio play Thor?
THE BEAT — ... If Colleen Doran’s exposé of a secret Fabio-financed Thor cartoon starring the romance model as the Thunder God is to be believed…terrifyingly close. ...

Fabio Was Thor (Very Briefly)
Topless Robot — ... Just the Norse god in a Thor cartoon the mush-mouthed, butter-y model had commissioned back in 1997. You know, Marvel has such a lock on Thor that it's easy for me to forget that he's in the public domain of mythology, so anyone can really write anything with the thunder god (although does DC have a Thor? I have no idea). Of course, that doesn't mean Fabio's take doesn't seem more than a little indebted to Marvel's version, plus -- as A Distant Soil 's Colleen Cover points out on her blog , the tagline for the series is apparently "With power comes responsibility." Followed ...

Once Upon A Time, Fabio Was 'Thor'
Cinematical — ... top-notch directors. Many of you are too young to remember just what ugly treatments comic books received in the 1980s and 1990s. Oh sure, there was Tim Burton's Batman, but treatments like David Hasselhoff's Nick Fury: Agent of SHIELD were the norm. When a Thor movie was kicked around, the only requirement was muscles and blonde hair. In the 1990s, there was one man that fit that description: Fabio. A funny little flashback has surfaced on Colleen Doran's blog, which has prompted a delightful trip back in time at Mania ...