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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Nothing in the way of plot related spoilers but he did reveal a lot interesting tidbits.
- Marvel gave Waititi a lot of creative freedom on the characters, tone and actual style of the film, even if the studio obviously mandated a lot of the plot for the sake of Infinity War. It's gonna feel like a Taika Waititi movie in the same way Iron Man 3 is very obviously a Shane Black movie and Guardians of the Galaxy is very obviously a James Gunn movie.
- He's basically starting fresh and is focusing on making it a strong individual work and not just a sequel or lead-in to IW, to the point that he said he's more or less ignored the first two Thor movies and Infinity War, leaving all that stuff up to Marvel. It's going to be completely different from the first two movies.
- He's a big fan of Jason Aaron's Thor run.
- The movie is very "crazy" and is probably one of the most different and "adventurous" Marvel movies that's been done, whatever that means.
- Valkyrie has a "decent sized part" so I'm guessing something like Black Panther in Civil War in terms of screentime.
- Bruce Banner is apparently gonna steal the show and be one of the big highlights of the movie.
- They're going with a really unique and crazy score, and it sounds like Waiti himself agreed with the recent video about how most of Marvel's movies have really generic, bland music.
- Perhaps most interestingly, he said he's aware of the perception that Thor is apparently a boring character, and says a lot of work went into making sure that his storyline in the movie is really interesting and that he actually gets to do some awesome shit, as opposed to just being overshadowed by Loki.
While everything else instills me with hope, I dread that Hulk will steal Thor's thunder. Pun maybe intended.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."I'd just like to say that I totally called both the Hulk being the second most important character in the movie, second only to Thor, and Hulk's storyline basically being a condensed adaptation of Planet Hulk.
I know fans are always like "Why don't the Avengers know that Coulson is alive?" And I'm like "Why would they need to? What would be the point?" There is literally no reason why any of them would need to know Coulson is alive.
I had a thing all typed out detailing why each of the Avengers would need to know Coulson's alive (him having to deal with Loki alone because they couldn't get their collective shit together before then foremost among them), but I realized those admittedly emotional reasons might not count as needs. So how about this: let's assume Ultron and Sokovia still happened. It leads into Civil War. Now, Tony and Steve are terrible at dealing with bureaucracy. And that's what the Accords ultimately are; a lot of bureaucracy. Coulson presumably has a lot of experience with bureaucracy and bureaucrats. If the Avengers had known he was alive, maybe -just maybe- one of them would have reached out to him for help. And he could have stepped in as a liaison and helped hammer out a compromise that would have worked for the Avengers and the UN. Which means the team would've been unified when Zemo started his plan. And while he still would've caused some problems for them, I doubt it would've ended with three 'legal' Avengers who wouldn't be doing any Avenging anytime soon (one because he's too injured, and the others because Ross isn't likely to trust either of them anytime soon) and all the others scattered and living in hiding.
Also the first time I find myself interested in a Thor movie, though my reasons for ignoring them before were admittedly the genre - which still won't have changed I guess - and Loki, whom I hated with the fire of a thousand burning nuns in The Avengers. I think Hemsworth makes Thor quite likable, and if he gets actually good writing, I'm certainly not complaining. Bruce I can manage as long as he doesn't wallow in manpain.
I'm also looking very much forward to Tessa Thompson, whom I've last seen in Veronica Mars.
But the whole point of Civil War is to have the Avengers split up. You can't put someone in who is good at bureaucracy or turns Tony's and Steve's heads straight. Thus no Fury.
edited 16th Oct '16 4:55:52 AM by hollygoolightly
I really don't care. The point is if they ever wanted actually have SHIELD interact with the movies again, they already wrote themselves into a corner by having Coulson's resurrection happen in the show. The entire "Everything's connected" meme was ill-conceived from the start.
That's basically a good argument for him being kept out of the movies then. There's really no drama in that scenario.
edited 16th Oct '16 7:09:13 AM by comicwriter
I think the ideal solution would be to show members from the cast in the crowd shots from Winter Soldier and Age of Ultron. Unfortunately they didn't do that. Most likely for scheduling reasons.
edit: I will be a bit disappointed if Spider-Man doesn't reference some of the other heroes in New York though. Mentioning the "Devil of Hell's Kitchen" and "the bulletproof guy" would be nice.
edited 16th Oct '16 9:06:39 AM by Kostya

Taika Waiti is doing a Reddit AMA if anyone has questions.