Taika Waititi Says His ‘Star Wars’ Movie Needs to Be ‘More of Its Own Thing’ and He ‘Can’t Wait’ to See Chris Hemsworth’s Thor in ‘Avengers: Doomsday’

“I’m just trying to go back and harness a little bit more of the fun from the original films, which is what I remember [from] them,” he told Variety at Sundance at the premiere of “Fing!” “It was all on the page, so it was pretty easy for me to tap into that,” Waititi said at the Variety Studio presented by Audible when asked about playing the bad guy. “The stuff that Chris and I did and how we shaped him into that new version… that was for the greater good of the franchise as a whole.

Author: Zack Sharf

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