Thor: Love and Thunder Director Taika Waititi Says His Star Wars Script Tries to 'Harness a Little Bit More of the Fun' of the Series' Original Films

Marvel's Thor: Love and Thunder manager Taika Waititi has said his under-wraps Star Wars publication is designed to recapture the consciousness of amusive recovered successful the sci-fi saga's archetypal trilogy.

Waititi's on-again, off-again enactment connected a Star Wars movie has been ongoing since astatine slightest 2020 and astatine times has felt improbable to ever merchandise owed to the director's engaged docket and aft a divisive reception to his astir caller Marvel project.

Still, Waititi's instrumentality connected a postulation far, acold distant was precocious mentioned again by outgoing Lucasfilm brag Kathleen Kennedy, who described it arsenic "somewhat alive" — which was a much promising update than respective different Star Wars movie projects that Kennedy had worked connected which she simply didn't notation astatine all.

Taika Waititi. Image credit: Anna Pocaro/Variety via Getty Images.

Now, Waititi has been asked to springiness a hint astatine what his publication volition entail. And, possibly unsurprisingly, the filmmaker down comedy-infused films specified arsenic What We Do successful the Shadows and Thor: Ragnarok said helium wanted to bring retired the "fun" of Star Wars, too.

"I deliberation you've seen it earlier but I'm conscionable trying to benignant of spell backmost and harness a small spot much of the amusive from the archetypal films," Waititi told Variety, "which is what I remember.

"The stakes were precise high," helium continued, reminiscing of his instrumentality connected George Lucas' archetypal trilogy, "there were superior things going connected but besides determination was a batch amusive to beryllium had successful those films. That's what I was trying to bring back."

Back successful 2023, Waititi blamed the agelong hold for his Star Wars movie to materialize connected his existent workload, and that helium didn't expect to marque the task until he'd completed "four different scripts" helium was progressive with. The manager utilized the aforesaid reasoning to explicate wherefore helium wouldn't nonstop different Thor task for Marvel, arsenic helium was already readying to beryllium engaged for different six oregon 7 years.

Amid a heap of in-progress and now-scrapped Star Wars pitches wrong Lucasfilm this decade, lone 2 Star Wars films person been definitively confirmed to release. The Mandalorian and Grogu launches successful theaters connected May 22. After that, the Ryan Gosling-starring Star Wars: Starfighter arrives connected May 28, 2027.

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