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Eric Pearson also looks back at crafting the anticipated battle with The Hulk and the soon-to-be classic line Chris Hemsworth wrote himself.

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00:00Hulk like fire, Thor like water.

00:03Oh, kind of both like fire.

00:05Thor Ragnarok looked to reinvent Chris Hemsworth's God of Thunder and made some of the boldest

00:11choices of any Marvel Studios film to date. The Hollywood Reporter's comic book movie

00:15destination, Heat Vision, spoke with screenwriter Eric Pearson about those bold moves and how

00:20Ragnarok will spill into the next two Avengers films. So if you haven't seen it yet, spoiler

00:25alert because this video contains massive Thor Ragnarok reveals. The film makes its biggest

00:30and boldest move in the final moments. Here's your last chance to back out now, when Thor

00:35realizes the only way he can defeat his sister Hela, played by Cate Blanchett, is to allow

00:39Ragnarok to occur and get his people to safety on a spaceship. The fire demon Surtur destroys

00:45Asgard, but as Thor learns, Asgard isn't a place, it's a people.

00:49According to Pearson, who shares screenwriting credits with Kyle Yost and Craig Kyle on the

00:53film, the decision to allow Ragnarok to occur was something he wanted from early on in the

00:58process. He said,

00:59I forget exactly how that idea came up, but I remember bringing it up right at the beginning.

01:04Well, it's Ragnarok. That means apocalypse in Norse mythology. Don't we got to blow it up?

01:09We really got to do it here, and I think we can't be scared of it.

01:12Pearson added,

01:13The idea of making Thor a quasi-Noah figure and getting everyone onto the Ark to preserve them,

01:18I think I knew right from the beginning we had to do that. It was more about the tricky thing of

01:22making it Thor's choice. It wasn't that he just lost a huge battle. He learned something more

01:27about being a ruler, that the people are the kingdom, not the space itself.

01:31Looking ahead to the next two Avengers movies, Pearson revealed he was also brought in to help

01:36with Infinity War and Untitled Avengers 4 scripts. Why? According to the writer,

01:41Part of the reason we got sent over there is Ragnarok was so different than the other two.

01:46Hemsworth especially wanted to keep that continuity going for his character and his arc.

01:50I think also for Mark Ruffalo and Hulk, the stuff going on for them in the next two movies is some of my favorite.

01:56And as a bonus, Pearson opened up about how he crafted the highly anticipated fight between those two friends from work,

02:02Thor and Hulk. He revealed,

02:04For more from Pearson and more on everything Thor Ragnarok, head to THR.com's Heat Vision.

02:29And if you saw the movie this weekend, let me know what you thought of the film and its final moments in the comments.

02:34For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Tiffany Taylor.