Chris Hemsworth's Failed Sci-Fi Sequel Soars Off Streaming Following Reboot Talks

Published Jul 18, 2026, 8:00 PM EDT

Rohan Naahar is a News Writer for Collider. From Francois Ozon to David Fincher, he’ll watch anything once. He has covered everything from Marvel to the Oscars, and Marvel at the Oscars. He also writes obsessively about the box office, charting the many hits and misses that are released weekly, and how their commercial performance shapes public perception. In his time at Collider, he has also helped drive diversity by writing stories about the multiple Indian film industries, with a goal of introducing audiences to a whole new world of cinema.

This year’s Avengers: Doomsday will feature Chris Hemsworth’s Thor in a major role, returning the Australian star to a franchise that he has been with since its inception. However, Hemsworth has had numerous unsuccessful attempts at joining pre-existing franchises. Most recently, he delivered one of the best performances of his career in Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, which received positive reviews but underperformed at the box office. He was also a part of the cast of Ghostbusters: Answer the Call, which fell short of box-office expectations for entirely different reasons. During the same era, Hemsworth starred in a reboot of a widely-liked sci-fi franchise with one of his co-stars from the Thor series. That movie is currently streaming in the United States on Peacock, but it won’t stick around for much longer.

The movie in question was released theatrically in 2019 to poor reviews, following a difficult production during which its director, F. Gary Gray, nearly quit. There were creative differences between the filmmaker and the producer during production, and the studio had to step in to mediate tensions and convince the director to stay on. Meanwhile, Hemsworth and his co-star, Tessa Thompson, reportedly hired personal writers to polish their lines because the script was deviating too drastically from the version they’d signed on to.

Your answers point to the world your instincts were built for. This is the universe your temperament, your survival instincts, and your particular brand of stubbornness were made for.

You took the red pill a long time ago — probably before anyone offered it to you. You’re a systems thinker who can’t help but notice the seams in things.

The wasteland doesn’t reward the clever or the well-connected — it rewards those who are hard to kill and harder to break. That’s you.

You’d survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely.

Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards.

The galaxy far, far away is vast, loud, and in a constant state of violent political upheaval — and you wouldn’t have it any other way.

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