Thor: Love and Thunder deleted scene features Dionysus

We’re only a week out from the digital release of Thor: Love and Thunder, coming to Disney+ on September 8. To drum up the hype, Marvel is beginning to release some of the deleted material from the movie, starting with a new clip that gives viewers their first good look at the Greek god Dionysus, played by Simon Russell Beale (Penny Dreadful).

Dionysus appeared in the theatrical cut of Thor: Love and Thunder, but only for a moment in the background during the Omnipotence City sequence. But in this new clip from IGN, we can see that Dionysus originally had a slightly larger role in the movie.

Dionysus is bad at giving directions in Thor: Love and Thunder deleted scene

The deleted scene shows Thor (Chris Hemsworth), Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson), and Korg (Taika Waititi) walking up to the beautiful vista of Omnipotence City, just before a chariot wheels up to them bearing none other than Beale’s Dionysus. Sticking with the absurd tone of Love and Thunder, the chariot is pulled by a man who brays like a horse, a pair of sycophants fan themselves over the Greek god’s shoulders, and Dionysus is foppishly ridiculous as he name-drops his daddy Zeus and claims his bothersome sister Aphrodite is worth putting up with because she good wine.

Despite his best efforts to be as useless as possible, Dionysus does let slip where Thor and the gang can find his father Zeus. Presumably, the movie would carry on with its theatrical course from there, with Thor and the others going to watch Russell Crowe’s Zeus make grand proclamations about deific orgies.

This scene is one of several we know were left on the cutting room floor for Thor: Love and Thunder. Scenes were also shot that featured Peter Dinklage’s Eitri, Jeff Goldblum’s Grandmaster, and a new character played by Lena Headey. Hopefully the rest of the deleted footage will be included in Thor: Love and Thunder’s Blu-Ray and DVD physical release, which hits shelves on September 27.

Thor: Love and Thunder releases digitally and on Disney+ on September 8.

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