If you’ve been following the Thor: Ragnarok production, you may have noticed some real changes over time. Back when the movie was shooting, some shots leaked out of Anthony Hopkins dressed as Odin in the middle of New York, looking pretty much like a homeless man.

However, in the completed film, he’s actually off chilling in Norway. Director Taika Waititi has mentioned in the past that they did shift some scenes from New York to Norway in the interest of making things less convenient, but it turns out there’s another reason.

Speaking with Empire, the director discussed the original Odin scenes:

“What we wanted originally was for Thor and Loki to find Odin in New York, living on the streets, Fisher King style… There was something really cool and interesting about that, and I think that might be on the DVD, that version. But something about having him there and then dying made a lot of audiences in our test screenings feel too sorry for him. It was such a bummer seeing the great king of Asgard stuck in New York. We preferred the idea he’d be in some mystical Norse environment.”

As we now see in the finished film, he’s now in Norway. While the CG may not be the greatest in the world, we think it does have the desired effect of making Odin’s years less sad and helpless. At least in this version, he’s more of a master of his own fate and was actually able to travel somewhere relatively nice to settle in and resign to his fate.

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SOURCE: Empire