Taika Waititi Doesn't Like Director's Cuts, Won't Release A Thor: Love & Thunder One

gamespot.com:

In a recent interview, filmmaker Taika Waititi has quashed the growing hopes gaining momentum around a burgeoning #ReleaseTheWaititiCut campaign, pushing for a director's cut version of Thor: Love And Thunder. During the film's press tour, many of Thor's stars have made reference to a 4.5 hour-long cut of the movie that existed early on, but Waititi told NME that it isn't worth giving a second thought because «director's cuts are not good.»

«I've been thinking about director's cuts. I watch director's cuts of a lot of other directors. They suck,» Waititi said. «Directors need to be controlled… a scene is deleted because it's not good enough to be in the film.» But, Waititi added, any longer version of Thor: Love and Thunder would «probably have a few more jokes in there.»

On the other hand, there may be some merit to seeing more of the raw material Waititi was working with. In GameSpot's review of the film, Mason Downey writes that «Love and Thunder feel[s] less like a movie and more like a scrapbook of random ideas, cut up in between some neat looking music videos… It just never really comes together into a cohesive thing, which ultimately makes the whole experience ring hollow at best and confusing at worst.» You can read other critic opinions in our review roundup.

In a previous interview, Waititi told a characteristically self-deprecating anecdote involving an exchange he had with Natalie Portman in gearing up to work on the film. Speaking with Rolling Stone, Waititi discussed a moment when he early on asked Portman whether she had any interest in joining the Star Wars franchise as he works on his own «expansive» entry. As he fully admits now, Waititi «forgot» about the Star Wars prequels.