Taika Waititi confessed that his decision to take on directing Thor: Ragnarok for the Marvel Studios was purely motivated by money reasons. In an interview with the Smartless podcast [via TheWrap]The director recalled that he was not in a good moment when the studio made the proposal to him.
“I had no interest in doing a superhero movie. That wasn’t in my career plans, so to speak. But I was poor and had just had a second child. I thought, ‘You know what? That’s great.’ Opportunity to feed these children,” he commented.
Waititi also said that he had never been a fan of Thor comics and that he continued to do so when he tried to reread them after taking the job at Marvel.
“Let’s be honest: Thor is the least popular character of all [dos Vingadores originais]. When I was a kid, whenever I saw a Thor magazine I would think, “Eww.” And when I started researching the film, I tried reading his comics again, but I couldn’t get past 18 pages. “I didn’t understand this character,” the director said.
Nevertheless, Waititi’s Thor: Ragnarok was a resounding success, grossing over $850 million at the worldwide box office and breathing new life into the character within the MCU. The director returned for 2021’s Thor: Love and Thunder, which grossed $760 million worldwide.
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