THOR: LOVE AND THUNDER Director Taika Waititi Offers a Script Update and Says It's "Very Romantic"
Due to the pandemic, Marvel’s highly anticipated film Thor: Love and Thunder was pushed back to 2022. Director Taika Waititi has been hard at work on the sequel, though, which will see Natalie Portman’s Jane Foster become Thor and wield Mjolnir for the first time.
We don’t know much about the movie, but everyone that has talked about it that knows what’s going on is very excited about it! In a recent interview with BBC News, the writer and director shared an update on where the project currently stands and also says that the movie will be “insane” and “very romantic.”
"I think it's going to be really good. We've finished, we've been writing the script off and on for over a year and I'm just, actually this week, doing another pass on it. It is so insane and it's also very romantic. I'm into romances now. I just want to make a romance. I just want to make something that I've never done or never cared for. I would like to attack something like that."
When previously talking about the script, Chris Hemsworth praised it saying:
"It's one of the best scripts I've read in years. It's Taika at his most extreme, and at his best. If the version I read is the one we get running with, it's going to be pretty insane.”
Waititi also previously teased the insanity of the film when he revealed that there would be Space Sharks, and he also explained that this movie would make Ragnarok look safe:
“It makes Ragnarok feel like a really run-of-the-mill, really safe film. This new movie feels like we asked a bunch of 10-year-olds what they wanted to see and then just said yes to every single thing.”
We also know that Christian Bale will be playing the villain in the film, and it has been confirmed that Tessa Thompson’s character Valkyrie will go on the hunt for her "Queen" in the story after being appointed King of Asgard.
As for the female Thor storyline, it’s based on Jason Aaron’s comic book run on The Mighty Thor, the story of which follows a cancer-stricken Jane Foster as she takes up the mantle and powers of Thor. We don’t know for sure yet if the cancer element will be a part of the film’s story, but it should be!
Are you excited about Thor: Love and Thunder?