I haven't worked on other projects, I've been concentrating." But now? He's co-directing a stop-motion animated movie about Michael Jackson's pet chimpanzee Bubbles, of course - a project that's still in its early stages. "I've been really good on Thor," he laughs. He's also used to juggling several scripts at a time - the last of which, the 2016 Sam Neill comedy-drama The Hunt for the Wilderpeople, became the highest-grossing film in New Zealand's history. He is, after all, a restless creative a polymath who's done everything from painting to stand-up to photography.
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Waititi says he used to be something of a film snob, but he can now see the art in superhero movies: "When you get older, and have kids, you realise the world is full of art." However, he remains unsure if he would make another one. This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from. I was fully expecting that my way of working might be a bit more restricted than I'm used to. "We were throwing away lines all the time and just trying to keep it interesting, so there's enough room for credible ideas to come out.
One of the best lines from the trailer, in fact ("I know him! He's a friend from work!") was suggested to Hemsworth by a child visiting as part of the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
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In terms of tone, I was actually given a lot of freedom."Ī prime example of this, he says, was his freedom to build a collaborative community on set - a loose environment in which actors felt free to improvise Eric Pearson's screenplay. I didn't really think I needed to compromise too much. But I'll always fight for an idea that I think is worth fighting for, and if I feel like an experience is going to be really bad, I'd probably pull out of the project. So I was ready to learn how they do things to open myself to having my ideas interpreted in different ways and having to collaborate. "I came in knowing I'd never experienced this kind of thing before. So, is Thor: Ragnarok a Taika Waititi movie? "I can't speak to anyone else's experience," he says. Read more: Thor Ragnarok review: Marvel finally adds fun to the thunder "I thought, 'I'm just going to put my voice 100 per cent up there on screen and Marvel will have to try and keep me in their lane." The ploy worked.
When presenting his vision to a room of executives, he didn't express himself using words, but images - a pitch reel, clips from other movies, music, "colour, tones, the general sensibilities…" Waititi says. It set a tone for a style of film-making that defies easy description, though Waititi settles for "Taika-esque". Films such as the 2010 coming-of-age comedy Boy, and 2014 vampire mockumentary What We Do in the Shadows were small and strange, but big-hearted - an elusive mix of absurd and sincere. Marvel's top brass were intrigued by Waititi. In 2015, Taika Waititi, a successful but relatively obscure independent film-maker from New Zealand, walked into the offices of Marvel and pitched himself as the director of Thor: Ragnarok, a multi-million-dollar superhero movie. Taika Waititi also wrote an episode of Flight of the Conchords and the initial screenplay of Moana Christopher Beyer
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