Taika Waititi says he had no interest in directing ‘Thor: Ragnarok’

This picture launched by Searchlight Pictures exhibits filmmaker Taika Waititi on the set of ‘Next Goal Wins’
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Filmmaker Taika Waititi says he had no interest in directing a Marvel film however accepted the chance to helm “Thor: Ragnarok” for monetary causes.

Waititi was comparatively an unknown title with movies like “What We Do in the Shadows” and “Hunt for the Wilderpeople” when he was employed by Marvel Studios to direct “Ragnarok”, the third movie in Chris Hemsworth-led “Thor” collection.

“You know what? I had no interest in doing one of those films. It wasn’t on my plan for my career as an auteur. But I was poor and I’d just had a second child, and I thought, ‘You know what, this would be a great opportunity to feed these children’,” the filmmaker stated throughout his look in actor Jason Bateman’s “Smartless” podcast.

“Ragnarok”, which adopted the preliminary movie by Kenneth Branagh in 2011 and the Alan Taylor-directed 2013 sequel “Thor: The Dark World”, was an enormous hit and earned over USD 853 million on the worldwide field workplace.

The Oscar winner stated as a toddler, he did not like Marvel’s “Thor” comedian books and he did not know what to do with the character.

“And ‘Thor,’ let’s face it — it was probably the least popular franchise. I never read ‘Thor’ comics as a kid. That was the comic I’d pick up and be like ‘Ugh. And then I did some research on it, and I read one ‘Thor’ comic or 18 pages, or however long they are,” Waititi added.

Post “Ragnarok”, Waititi directed 2019’s “Jojo Rabbit”, for which he received the Academy Award for finest tailored screenplay. He additionally directed the fourth “Thor” film, titled “Love and Thunder”.

He is at the moment awaiting the discharge of his latest feature, “Next Goal Wins”, starring Michael Fassbender.