Taika Waititi Explains THOR: LOVE AND THUNDER Is "a Film About Love, with Superheroes and Outer Space"
Director Taika Waititi is out and about hyping up Thor: Love and Thunder. Not that he needs to, the movie looks awesome, and Marvel fans are excited to see it! In a recent interview with Empire, the filmmaker talked about the movie and explained that it’s “a film about love, with superheroes and outer space.”
He actually seems really excited to play up the whole love angle in the movie and when teasing what fans can expect, he said:
“I think most people will assume that the love story is between Chris [Hemsworth] and Natalie [Portman]. I can’t promise that what people think is going to happen in this film will happen.”
When talking about embracing the romance aspect of the film and how he’s handling it, he shared:
“I wanted to embrace this thing that I was always a bit dismissive of, and explore this idea of love, and show characters who do believe in love. On paper, it feels kinds of cringy to me, but there’s a way of doing it with cool characters making a cool movie, and also having a thing that no fan ever wants in a superhero movie, which is people talking about love, and characters kissing.”
He went on to praise the film he made and is incredibly confident in it saying, “It’s a fantastic film. I don’t try to control my films, or how they turn out. I sort of let them appear to me. And with this film, I’m like, ‘Hey, you’re kind of cooler than the thing I was originally hoping to make.’ Tonally it’s where I’ve always wanted it.”
The film finds Thor “on a journey unlike anything he’s ever faced – a quest for inner peace. But his retirement is interrupted by a galactic killer known as Gorr the God Butcher (Christian Bale), who seeks the extinction of the gods. To combat the threat, Thor enlists the help of King Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson), Korg (Waititi) and ex-girlfriend Jane Foster who – to Thor’s surprise – inexplicably wields his magical hammer, Mjolnir, as the Mighty Thor. Together, they embark upon a harrowing cosmic adventure to uncover the mystery of the God Butcher’s vengeance and stop him before it’s too late.”
Thor: Love and Thunder will be released on July 8th, 2022.