Taika Waititi is a passionate and meticulous filmmaker, who owns a dazzling array of fruit-themed tees and rompers. To ensure his first tentpole film, Thor: Ragnarok, was a smashing success, Waititi voiced the delightful rock-monster Korg, played one of three heads on an alien, and donned a motion-capture suit to play…
According to Deadline, Rebel Wilson has joined Taika Waititi’s World War II satire Jojo Rabbit as Fraulein Rahm, a “brutish instructor” in a Hitler Youth Camp that the main character—a 10-year-old boy struggling with his country’s descent into fascism—is recruited into. Deadline’s sources say that Wilson’s character…
Good news for fans of flat-based bloodsucking comedy today, as FX announced that it’s finally moved forward with a series order for Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement’s U.S. TV version of their cult mockumentary What We Do In The Shadows. The network has issued a 10-episode first season-order for the series, which will…
Thor: Ragnarok director Taika Waititi is gearing up to work with yet another Avenger, with Variety reporting that Scarlett Johansson has signed on to appear in his new film, Jojo Rabbit. Set in Germany during World War II, the film will see Johansson play a young mother hiding a young Jewish woman in her home during…
Thor: Ragnarok director Taika Waititi is switching up the animal movie titles, announcing his next project will be JoJo Rabbit, not the Bubbles The Chimp movie that Netflix bought last year. And as he described the film to The Wrap, it sounds considerably less grounded in reality than a stop-motion movie about Michael…
Taika Waititi might be one of the most fascinating filmmakers working today. A native New Zealander, the comic auteur crept his way stateside as a director on Flight Of The Conchords before his breakout horror comedy What We Do In the Shadows helped score him a gig directing Thor: Ragnarok. In between, he made…
With Thor: Ragnarok, Taika Waititi nailed his contribution to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, so it’s not hard to see why fans and even the studio would be clamoring to have him back in the director’s chair at some point in the future. Ragnarok did close out the Asgardian’s trilogy, though, which means the What We Do…
In conjunction with the announcement that Thor: Ragnarok now has an official DVD/Blu-ray release date, Marvel has unveiled an exclusive gag reel that proves the making of the film was just as much of a delight as the finished product. That’s thanks in no small part to director Taika Waititi, who opens the short clip…
Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi’s What We Do In The Shadows has spawned quite a franchise: Not only is there a cinematic spin-off planned for the polite lycanthropes led by Rhys Darby in the original, but the collaborators have also been working on two TV adaptations. Now Clement, who’s since become a series regular…
We’ve been hearing rumblings of adaptations of and sequels to What We Do In The Shadows ever since Taika Waititi’s hilarious vampire mockumentary became a cult hit back in 2015. This week, a report from Stuff confirmed that at least one of those projects is finally in production, a mockumentary cop TV show called …
Star Wars films have become a much-coveted prize for up-and-coming directors in recent years, a shiny brass ring for guys—somehow, it’s always guys—like Rian Johnson, Colin Trevorrow, Gareth Edwards, Josh Trank, and Phil Lord and Christopher Miller to leap for, and then (more often than not) immediately slam back into…
Faced with an increasingly dispiriting reality, Americans chose to spend their weekend laughing at the funny, hunky god-man and his angry green friend in Taika Waititi’s colorful, irreverent Thor: Ragnarok. Forsooth, the 17th entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe enjoyed a massive No. 1 opening, grossing $121 million…
Taika Waititi has brought his wacky energy to the Marvel Cinematic Universe with the well-received Thor: Ragnarok, and it sounds like one of his next projects is going to do something even weirder with that wacky energy than simply use it to turn introduce some ridiculousness to one of the MCU’s least-loved brands. As…
Last week, Tessa Thompson, who plays the fierce Valkyrie in Thor: Ragnarok, responded to an online complaint from some narrow-minded butthead about the “tomboy-ish” look of her character. After a fan mistakenly wrote that the same Valkyrie from the comics, whose buxom figure was being called canon by said butthead,…
Thor, played with a familiar twinkle of jovial regality by Chris Hemsworth, spends the first few minutes of Thor: Ragnarok in chains, hanging sideways in a straitjacket of iron links. Things do not get easier for him. Like Tony Stark in Iron Man 3, the god of thunder will lose his weapon of choice: that mighty hammer…
One of the many reasons we’re rooting for Thor: Ragnarok to be great—besides the fact that it just looks charming and cheerful and fun—is that a successful Hollywood blockbuster is likely to give director Taika Waititi carte blanche to follow whatever weird, interesting creative impulses happen to be driving him at…
The Marvel Cinematic Universe’s expansion has touched on even the more tedious parts of a superhero’s life, like paying rent, courtesy of Taika Waititi’s Team Thor short films. The Thor: Ragnarok director introduced fans to the Odinson’s mortal roommate Darryl last year, who won’t actually be in any Thor movies, but…
The press crunch has begun for Thor: Ragnarok, with the cast jetting around the world to talk about the coming apocalypse—in this case, a cinematic one, not the one this administration keeps straining toward in real life. Chris Hemsworth and Mark Ruffalo, who play Thor and Hulk, respectively, were up bright and early…
Warner Bros. controls the rights to make a live-action version of iconic anime film/manga series Akira, and the studio is clearly getting so desperate to do something with those rights that it seems to just be throwing the project at any cool filmmaker with some buzz in hopes of getting them to direct it. Earlier this…
It’s still a few months away, but we can hardly wait for Thor: Ragnarok, after seeing the poster and hilarious Team Thor shorts and trailers that inspire a new appreciation for Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song.” One of the best moments in those trailers arrives when Thor is ready to do battle against an unknown foe in…
