Marvel’s Thor, starring Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Natalie Portman, Anthony Hopkins and Renee Russo, hits theaters worldwide on May 6, 2011. Marvel and Paramount have released the official plot synopsis for the God of Thunder’s trip to the big screen, check it out below!

Paramount Pictures and Marvel Entertainment present the epic adventure, “Thor,” which spans the Marvel Universe from present day Earth to the realm of Asgard. At the center of the story is the mighty Thor (Chris Hemsworth), a powerful but arrogant warrior whose reckless actions reignite an ancient war. Thor is cast down to Earth by his father Odin (Anthony Hopkins) and is forced to live among humans. A beautiful, young scientist, Jane Foster (Natalie Portman), has a profound effect on Thor, as she ultimately becomes his first love. It’s while here on Earth that Thor learns what it takes to be a true hero when the most dangerous villain of his world sends the darkest forces of Asgard to invade Earth.

In other THOR news – writer/director Keri Collins, wrote into the Marvel Movies Facebook page to talk about his visit to the set of THOR. Collins was given a chance to shadow director Kenneth Branagh, as part of the Guiding Lights Film Mentoring scheme and as luck and timing would have it, that placed him squarely on the set of Marvel’s THOR.

Here’s what he Collins to say,

Obviously I can’t reveal anything of what I saw whilst there but needless to say I had an awesome time and gained so much more than I expected in terms of career development. I think you guys are going to be very happy when the movie is released; what I saw absolutely blew me away.

I was also struck by just how friendly and welcoming everyone on set was, including the fantastic Craig Kyle and Kevin Feige from Marvel who could easily have told me to go away and stop malingering around their movie set, but instead made me feel like part of the team. I heard Craig talking to someone about one of the sequences in the movie and the passion with which he delivered it was so intense and engaging that it was almost like seeing the finished movie in my head right there! These guys care so much about the source material that I don’t think the movie could be in better hands.