Alan Taylor revealed how much he admires Kevin Feige -- but how much he regrets the changes made to his version of Thor: The Dark World.
While promoting the Sopranos prequel, The Many Saints of Newark, Taylor discussed what it was like to have his work changed on the second Thor film. The director was brought in thanks to his acclaimed work on Game of Thrones, but in the middle of production, Marvel Studios began making changes to the final film.
"First of all, I have huge respect for Kevin Feige. I think he’s doing something that no one else has ever done before and that nobody thought was possible until he did it," Taylor told Inverse. "Now, everyone's trying to imitate it."
"For me, the process was not fun," Taylor continued. "I focused all my attention on making a certain movie. And then in the editing process, decisions were made to change it a lot. He’s got an empire he’s running and things have to be changed to fit into other things. My regret was that the movie that got released was changed quite a bit in a way that I couldn't shape really. I mean, I shot all the material that we put in the movie, but we set out to make one movie, and then major plot points were reversed in post. It’s not the ideal way to work."
Taylor said that the original version of the film, the one he wanted to make, had a lot more in common with the HBO fantasy series than the typical tone of the MCU. He had hoped to darken up the existing Thor look and story, but those choices ultimately didn't stick.
"I have a great fondness for some of the things that went away in the original cut," Taylor said. "There was a kind of quality a wonder to the thing that was beautiful to me. I think I was brought in to bring some Game of Thrones-iness to it in reaction to the first Thor, which was a little too shiny, was my feeling. And then partway through, they started to realize that they wanted to hit in a different direction. So it was kind of a stumbling process."
Though he thinks it's unlikely that Disney will make a decision similar to Warner Bros., Taylor would still love the chance Zack Snyder got to go in and finish his take on the film.
"I was cheering for Snyder when he was doing that and thinking, Will he pull this off? This is amazing," Taylor said. "I think every director was kind of rooting for that. I would love to, I mean to. Can you imagine that? They give me however many millions of dollars they gave him to go back in. Yeah, I don’t think I’m going to get that phone call."
Source: Inverse