Taika Waititi is opening up about his initial feeling about directing Thor: Ragnarok revealing he had no interest in helming the Marvel film but ultimately took the opportunity for financial reasons.
During an appearance on the SmartLess podcast, the filmmaker talked to hosts Will Arnett, Jason Bateman and Sean Hayes about the reason he took the job directing the third Thor film. “I had no interest in doing one of those films,” Waititi said. “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.'” Waititi went on to say that Thor “was probably the least popular franchise” adding, “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.
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