Thor: Love and Thunder star Chris Hemsworth recently described the upcoming Marvel Cinematic Universe blockbuster as the kind of film a seven-year-old would make.
Hemsworth explained that the Thor sequel was the product of director Taika Waititi's inner child during an interview with Today. "It was Taika at his craziest," he said. "Taika, normally, is kind of at an 11, so you can do the math there. He described it as like he'd been given the keys to the kingdom, and someone said, 'Here, if a seven-year-old was making a movie, what would you do?' He said, 'Well, I want to put this in it. I want to do this. I want to try this.' And everything he suggested, I said yes to, and then we had this insane film in front of us."
Waititi echoed Hemsworth's comments in a recent interview, only he likened Thor: Love and Thunder to a production run by a focus group of six-year-olds, instead. As evidence of this, the filmmaker cited the God of Thunder's mode of transportation in the movie: a Viking longboat pulled through space by two goats, Toothgnasher and Toothgrinder. Waititi was quick to point out that this aspect of the movie was actually culled directly from real Norse mythology, however.
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Waititi also previously described the original 4-hour cut of Thor: Love and Thunder as even more outrageous than the version headed to theaters, while Hemsworth described it as "batshit crazy, wild." The director went on to say that while much of the material he removed played well on set, it didn't work within the overall context of the film itself. "[A]fter about six months of it being in the movie, you realize it was fun on the day but it doesn't have any business being in the movie," he said.
Alongside its child-like approach to the MCU, Thor: Love and Thunder also serves as a love letter to '80s rock. "The whole aesthetic around the film... we wanted it to be this bombastic, loud, colorful palette, which kind of reflected spray-painted panel vans in the '80s and rock album covers," Waititi said. "Even the title treatment for the film, it's the kind of thing I would've drawn on my school book in class when I wasn't listening." He also joked that the decision to use songs like Guns 'n' Roses' "Sweet Child o' Mine" was motivated by the desire to spend as much money as possible on the film's licensed soundtrack.
Thor: Love and Thunder arrives in theaters on July 8, 2022.
Source: Today, via YouTube