The Shadow Monsters in THOR: LOVE AND THUNDER Were Designed By The Kids in the Film
One of the things that I enjoyed about Thor: Love and Thunder were the crazy designs of the wicked and sinister shadow monsters. Well, it turns out those monsters were actually designed by the kids who were involved with the movie!
As you know, the film had a lot of kids in it and director Taika Waititi explained the reason for that is because it made the film feel “like just a classic '80s movie.” Some of the kids include Chris Hemsworth’s three children, Natalie Portman’s son and daughter, Christian Bale’s kids, and even one of Waititi’s daughters.
As it turns out, all of the kids that were a part of the movie were also tasked with creating the designs for the shadow monsters that we see! According to Waititi, that came about when his daughter just happened to ask one day what the monsters looked like. He told Marvel:
“My daughter was watching me write the script one day and she looked over my shoulder and says, ‘What's a shadow demon?’ I was like, ‘I don't know.’ And she goes, ‘What does it look like?’ So she went and drew one. I thought I wonder if that would be a cool monster. And I gave it to the Visual Development department, and they turned it into a fully rendered monster. Then I just started asking everyone else around the office. I was like, get your kids to draw some monsters. And then we just had a collection of monsters. So all of those monsters that Gorr summons, the reason they look so crazy is because they're all designed by children.”
That’s pretty cool! I love that these kids got to have the opportunity to design the monsters in the movie! That must’ve been an awesome experience for them. In regards to this, Bale said:
“We actually know which monsters are my kids' monsters. [Taika] had them draw a lot of sketches, and then the magic of the VFX guys, they created something monstrous out of that. And, and absolutely, those are identifiable, and that's very exciting to see.
“Taika was wonderful with that. He made a really family-friendly environment, and everyone was around about, and making friends, and playing soccer and whatnot, and hanging out.”
Regardless of what you thought of the film, it sounds like it was a great film production to be a part of, especially for the kids.