{"id":57381,"date":"2023-11-28T02:24:30","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T02:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/28\/taika-waititi-reveals-thoughts-on-thor-and-joining-mcu\/"},"modified":"2023-11-28T02:24:30","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T02:24:30","slug":"taika-waititi-reveals-thoughts-on-thor-and-joining-mcu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/28\/taika-waititi-reveals-thoughts-on-thor-and-joining-mcu\/","title":{"rendered":"Taika Waititi reveals thoughts on Thor and joining MCU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Thor, let\u2019s face it \u2014 it was probably the least popular franchise. I never read Thor comics as a kid. That was the comic I\u2019d pick up and be like \u2018Ugh.\u2019 And then I did some research on it. I was still baffled by this character.\u201d &#8211; Taika Waititi <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jupkydEgge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/jupkydEgge<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 IGN (@IGN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IGN\/status\/1729289272815923311?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">November 28, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>-Appearing on \u201cSmartless\u201d podcast, Waititi spoke on his time with the MCU. While Marvel Cinematic Universe is massively popular, he still initially \u201chad no interest in doing one of those films. It wasn\u2019t on my sort of whole plan on my career as an auteur but I was poor and I\u2019d just had a second child, and I thought, you know what? This would be a great opportunity to feed these children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>-When discussing Thor specifically he stated \u201cI never read Thor comics as a kid. That was the comic I\u2019d pick up and be like \u2018Ugh.\u2019 And then I did some research on it, and I read one Thor comic or 18 pages, or however long they are. I was still baffled by this character.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>-While Taika helped breathe new life into Thor with Thor Ragnar\u00f6k brining it to its best box office and reviews, Love and Thunder, a financial success isn&#8217;t nearly as loved as Ragnar\u00f6k.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IGN\/status\/1729289272815923311\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Source<\/a><br \/> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/127317161.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Thor, let\u2019s face it \u2014 it was probably the least popular franchise. I never read Thor comics as a kid. That was the comic I\u2019d pick up and be like \u2018Ugh.\u2019 And then I did some research on it. I was still baffled by this character.\u201d &#8211; Taika Waititi pic.twitter.com\/jupkydEgge \u2014 IGN (@IGN) November 28, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-57381","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}