Thor: Ragnarok
Thor : Ragnarokdirector Taika Waititi has revealed that the blockbuster MCU entry nigh featured a flashback showing a young Thor as you ’ve never seen him before : chubby and being pick on by yobo . Waititi’sjoke - infusedtake onThorhas already madebox office chronicle , hammer ( and hamming ) its room to a $ 120 million opening weekend .
Taika Waititi was a relative nameless with only a few small independent film to his name when he was hired to tackle the big - budgetThor : Ragnarok . care about Waititi ’s lack of experience on such material went by the roadside when lover see the now - famousfirst teaserfor the film , with its super - surefooted visual flair , fast humour and throw - down - the - gauntletLed Zeppelin soundtrack . With Waititi at the helm , theThorformula was rework to take good vantage of comical possible action , including the human relationship between Thor and asuddenly - chatty Hulk . Since this is an MCU movie , the Waititi tactile sensation , inspire by everything fromFlash GordontoBig Trouble in Little China , build up upon what is still a solid structure of familiar Marvel business , include asuper - powerful villainwho has to be tackled via teamwork .
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Speaking toMTV.com’sHappy Sad Confusedpodcast , Waititi tattle about adding joke to theThoruniverse , and unwrap the hilarious flashback chronological sequence he in the first place want to include inThor : Ragnarokbut was ineffectual to work in . In this flashback , Thor would have been nothing like the buff , manly , nigh - invincible warrior we ’ve come to know and get laid :
I wanted this piddling matter , and perchance if we ever do a Thor 4 we can have it , but I wanted to do some flashbacks where Thor was a kid , a fat little Kyd . There was like an 80s variation of Asgard where everyone had massive shoulder diggings , and everyone had mullets ( laugh ) . Our idea was Thor and Valkyrie run across and he ’s like , ‘ Hey I know you , ’ and she ’s like ‘ Ha I commend you , ’ and then it cut back to this thing and he ’s just this pudgy little kid walk around with a gray mullet and being clean on by other kids . And Loki ’s like this little emo goth hanging out by himself . He was like [ Malfoy ] in Harry Potter .
Waititi is all the path on - circuit board with doinga fourthThorfilm , and after the corner office winner ofRagnarok , Marvel Studios should have no hesitation in bring the director back and let him loose on Thor once again . If Waititi gets his direction , the nextThormovie will include a kid Thor with an apparent bout - eating job who has a difficult prison term manage himself and gets smell around by bullies while his surly goth brother Loki support around sighing and rolling his eyes . If that were n’t amusing enough , Waititi also has in mind a version of Asgard that for some bizarre reason resemble the 1980s on earth . If Feige ever take the troika all the way off Waititi , we might end up with aStranger Thingsversion of Thor where everyone is small tike running around a 1980s Asgard , and Chris Hemsworth ’s interlingual rendition of Thor only appears in a cameo .
Unsurprisingly , there are some out there who are not entirely down with Waititi ’s pretty joked - up version of Thor . One literary criticism being leveled at the film is that it ’s too close in tone toGuardians of the Galaxy , the wacky misfit off - shoot of the MCU . Box office return forThor : Ragnaroktend to suggest that cosmopolitan audience for some reason do n’t listen a little overt fatuousness in their superhero movie about a cosmic deity befriend a jumbo green radioactive adult male and press with a ego - proclaimed " goddess of death " who looks like she just stepped off the cover of a cheesy expiry metal record album .
finally , it seems Waititi ’s kinky vision was a good scene for Thor , a character who has always fit fairly awkwardly into the MCU construct . Thor will next show up inAvengers : Infinity Warto perform his role within the primal shared universe storyline - before possibly flying off on another wackyThor : Ragnarok - style adventure with The Hulk and all his champion .
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