Now that “Thor: Ragnarok” has made $121 million in its opening weekend, Taika Waititi plans to capitalize on his success in just the way you’d expect the director of “What We Do in The Shadows” to: by making a Nazi comedy. The New Zealand director has told Vice as much during an interview occasioned by his new film, though he’s tight-lipped about exactly what his new project entails.
Read More:Taika Waititi On ‘Thor: Ragnarok’: ‘I Feel Like an Indie Director Who Managed to Not Die Making a Studio Film’
After revealing that “one of my next films is a stop-motion film about the life and times of Michael Jackson’s chimpanzee Bubbles,” Waititi adds that “there’s also a smaller film that I’ve written that I’m going to try to shoot next year. It’s a Nazi comedy.”
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Read More:Taika Waititi On ‘Thor: Ragnarok’: ‘I Feel Like an Indie Director Who Managed to Not Die Making a Studio Film’
After revealing that “one of my next films is a stop-motion film about the life and times of Michael Jackson’s chimpanzee Bubbles,” Waititi adds that “there’s also a smaller film that I’ve written that I’m going to try to shoot next year. It’s a Nazi comedy.”
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- 11/5/2017
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
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