Thor: Ragnarok
Director Taika Waititi has a good chance of perplex around the MCU after his piece of work onThor : Ragnarok , at least if Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige his way . Marvel has long been have intercourse to pluck TV and indie film film director from mainstream reconditeness and turn them into megahit auteurs . And while they ’ve had some complications in the yesteryear - most famously with Edgar Wright onAnt - Manand Patty Jenkins onThor 2- the method has also yielded some fantastic results .
Brothers Anthony and Joe Russo , Peyton Reed , Scott Derrickson , and James Gunn are prize examples of this , spin their belittled bodies of work into big success with theCaptain America , Ant - Man , Doctor Strange , andGuardians of the Galaxyfranchises , respectively . Like with many MCU director before him , a few eyebrows were raised when Waititi was choose to helm the thirdThorfilm . Having affect with his work onFlight of the ConchordsandWhat We Do in the Shadows , his hang for drollery was unquestionable . But chip in the rave reviewsThor : Ragnarokhas received so far , it ’s clear that he ’s just as capable of handling action and spectacle and doing so within the continuity of the Marvel Cinematic Universe .
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We talk with Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige at theThor : Ragnarokpress junket and expect him about the influence of Jack Kirby and Walt Simonson and wanted to know if there are plan for more with Waititi .
" Well , we ’ll see . I would love , love life , love to work with Taika again and I have every confidence that we will . What we ’re working on right on now is the next six movies . The next six movies that will play us to Untitled Avengers in May 2019 , which stock off a plenty of what you see in this movie . In some cases very flat , and go on to build up and turn . The feeling of the Jack Kirby elements . Walt Simonson has always been an influence on the Thor serial publication for us , apparently , he ’s done such amazing work in Thor . Jack Kirby has been an influence on every Marvel movie we ’ve ever made because he built the Marvel Universe with Stan , Steve Ditko , and the whole gang there , but this movie , and coincidentally being the hundredth year day of remembrance of Jack Kirby ’s giving birth , we really require to be that unabashed love letter of the alphabet , and a film by Taika , when spill the beans to the art department , and enunciate , “ oh look at that , it really should be like this ” , looking at Jack Kirby costumes and ground instrument panel , and the artistic production department doing something inspire by it and then Taika go no , no . Do this ! [ cite exact Kirby art ] And that ’s why you have , it ’s direct to translation of Kirby ’s artwork which has n’t been control in a movie before . "
With Marvel looking more and more to the work of Steve Ditko , Simonson , and Kirby for inspiration and design employment , imaginative directors like Gunn and Waititi seem to be arrant matches for the cosmic esthesia of the MCU . While Thor and the Guardians are still connected to the same universe of discourse as the Avengers , their setting and story allow for more radical themes , environs , and plant piece .
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We ’ll have to look a little while longer to judge for ourselves how well Waititi ’s visual sensation wreak for the God of Thunder , but it seems pretty clear thatThor : Ragnarokwill maintain the playfulness of the manager ’s previous films .
