Marvel Studios Reportedly Interested in Filming THOR: RAGNAROK or CAPTAIN MARVEL in Australia


Here's a bit of Marvel Studios news to start off your work week and it revolves around a future Phase 3 movie. As of now CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR has wrapped filming and DOCTOR STRANGE is set to begin principle photography in London in November. Then GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2 will shoot in Atlanta in February 2016 with SPIDER-MAN shooting at T.B.D. in summer 2016.

This leaves THOR: RAGNAROK as the next movie in the Phase 3 lineup and while Christopher Yost continues to develop the story and write its script right now, there is no director attached to the project. A director announcement will come soon, for sure, especially since Yahoo7News (via CBM) is reporting that THOR: RAGNAROK could be one of two Marvel films looking to film at the coastal city of Gold Coast, Queensland in Australia.

On the tails of Disney wrapping the next Pirates of the Caribbean movie at Village Roadshow Studios at Gold Coast, a source has told Yahoo7 the experience was so good for Disney that word got out to Marvel Studios who are interested in filming one of their upcoming movies there.

“The big bosses were very pleased throughout the year it took to shoot out here and now they’re looking at brining out one of the Marvel films," a technical specialist source said. "It was a great experience for the studio who were able to familiarise [sic] themselves with the set-up at Village Roadshow (studios) and the crews here. They were also able to work across a lot of different locations which has saved them scouting for the Marvel movie.”

This report also states CAPTAIN MARVEL could be a contender to film in Queensland but also states since Thor star Chris Hemsworth is from Australia, and lives about an hour from Village Roadshow Studios, this could sway THOR: RAGNAROK to shoot there if the location fits filming needs.

Nothing is official or confirmed, as of the publishing of this post, but Marvel does need a third filming location for their films — since they've booked Pinewood Studios in both London and Atlanta — when they start producing and releasing three films a year.