Anthony Hopkins has joined Marvel Studios' "Thor" as Odin, father of Thor and Loki. Production starts in January with Chris Hemsworth playing Thor, Tom Hiddleston as Loki and Natalie Portman as Thor's love interest Jane Foster.

The Kenneth Branagh-directed film is scripted by Mark Protosevich and Zach Stentz and follows a partly disabled medical student called Dr. Donald Blake and the discover of his Norse god alter ego, a hammer-swinging Thor.

Paramount will release this on May 20th, 2011.

Hopkins can be seen next alongside Benicio Del Toro in Universal Pictures' "The Wolfman" which unspools wide next February.