Taika Waititi Says to Those Hoping for a Four-Hour Cut of THOR: LOVE AND THUNDER: "Director's Cuts Are Not Good"

Thor: Love and Thunder finally hit theatres last weekend, and it was a ton of fun! But as it turns out, there are some fans who want more. After a report was released stating that the film had many scenes that didn’t make the cut, including ones that included Jeff Goldblum’s Grandmaster, as well as characters played by Peter Dinklage and Lena Headey, fans started wondering if an extended director’s cut could see the light of day, with the hashtag #ReleaseTheWaititiCut gaining momentum.

Waititi weighed in on the concept, telling New Musical Express:

“I’ve been thinking about director’s cuts. I watch director’s cuts of a lot of other directors. They suck. Director’s cuts are not good. Directors need to be controlled sometimes and if I was to say, ‘Ah you wanna watch my director’s cut? It’s four and a half hours long!’ It’s not good at four and a half hours. There’s a lot of cup-of-tea breaks in there, you don’t even have to pause it.”

Just because it worked out for Zack Snyder’s Justice League, which was a special circumstance, doesn’t mean this needs to become a trend. While Waititi is not down with the possibility of a “Waititi cut” of Thor: Love and Thunder, the filmmaker still shared a few ideas of what his extended cut of the film would look like, saying:

“I’d say my cut would probably have a few more jokes in there. There might be a couple of deleted scenes but as I always say, a scene is deleted because it’s not good enough to be in the film. I think the deleted scenes section on the DVD, not that they use them anymore, should just be a list of the scenes and no links so you can’t click on them!”

It’s good that he cleared the air, so we don’t have to keep hearing about this as a possibility. I do think it would be fun to watch the scenes with the actors who ended up completely cut from the film, or to hear the creepy scream that Christian Bale mentioned his villainous character Gorr the God Butcher let out in a scene that was cut. But we don’t need to see all these scenes spliced back into the film.

Thor: Love and Thunder is playing in theaters everywhere. Go check it out if you haven’t had the chance!