Taika Waititi Thor: Did Taika Waititi write Thor? What did Taika Waititi say about Thor: Love and Thunder?

Taika Waititi is an award-winning New Zealand filmmaker, actor, painter, writer and comedian.

Taika David Cohen ONZM, known professionally as Taika Waititi, was born on August 16, 1975, in Raukokore, Waihau Bay, New Zealand. He was brought up on both the East Coast and in the Aro Valley of Wellington. His father was an artist whilst his mother, Robin Cohen worked as a schoolteacher.

Taika Waititi’s parents separated when he was five years old. He attended Onslow College and later studied theatre at Victoria University of Wellington where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1997. He initially started out as a comedian and was half of the comedy duo The Humourbeasts alongside Jemaine Clement. They received New Zealand’s highest comedy accolade, the Billy T Award, in 1999.

Taika Waititi’s first feature film was a romantic comedy called Eagle vs Shark (2007). He is a recipient of an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Grammy Award, and has received two nominations at the Primetime Emmy Awards.

Taika Waititi has been named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world on its annual list in 2022. He is the father of Matewa Kiritapu and Te Hinekāhu.

Did Taika Waititi write Thor?

Yes, Taika Waititi was a co-writer and director of Thor: Love and Thunder.

What did Taika Waititi say about Thor: Love and Thunder?

In a recent interview with NME, Taika Waititi admitted that he is not a fan of the longer versions of films featuring footage that was cut for the original theatrical run.

“Director’s cuts are not good,” he said in an interview with NME. “I’ve been thinking about director’s cuts. I watch director’s cuts of a lot of other directors. They suck. Director’s cuts are not good. Directors need to be controlled sometimes, and if I was to say, ‘ah, you wanna watch my director’s cut? It’s four and a half hours long!’ It’s not good, at four and a half hours. There’s a lot of cup-of-tea breaks in there, you don’t even have to pause it.”

“There might be a couple of deleted scenes, but as I always say, a scene is deleted because it’s not good enough to be in the film,” he said. “I think the deleted scenes section on the DVD, not that they use them anymore, should just be a list of the scenes and no links so you can’t click on them!”