Chris Hemsworth & Taika Waititi on Thor: Love and Thunder’s 4-Hour Cut

With Marvel’s Thor: Love and Thunder opening in theaters July 8th, I recently got to speak with Chris Hemsworth and writer-director Taika Waititi about making the MCU sequel here in Los Angeles. Since I’d heard the movie had a lot of deleted scenes, I decided to use some of my limited time to ask them about it. Thankfully, they were more than happy to share why their four-hour cut of the film didn’t work (they sacrificed story for jokes) and how it played like a Monty Python sketch. Now before you start petitioning Marvel to release the longer version, you should realize every film has a much longer assembly cut (it’s where the editor includes everything that has been shot) and there is a reason fans never see them — they’re not very good. The assembly cut is the starting point. And it’s where many filmmakers think they have a disaster on their hands. But over the course of many months, and sometimes over a year, the film slowly comes together and all of a sudden you have the final product. That being said, based on the way Hemsworth and Waititi talked about the longer cut of Thor: Love and Thunder, it sure sounds like they have a lot of scenes I’d like to see. Waititi described a scene where a bunch of soldiers go to have dinner with some French people on a river and Hemsworth called the cut, “batshit crazy.” Needless to say I’d love to see this and I’m sure a lot of Marvel fans are in the same boat. Hopefully when the Blu-ray eventually gets released Marvel will include some of those missing scenes. In addition to talking about the extended cut of the film, they revealed who Hemswroth would play if he were to guest star on Our Flag Means Death, how the Thor and Darryl short films were instrumental to finding the tone of Thor: Ragnarok, and more. Check out what they had to say in the player above or you can read our conversation below. “Thor: Love and Thunder finds Thor (Hemsworth) on a journey unlike anything he’s ever faced – a quest for inner peace. But his retirement is interrupted by a galactic killer known as Gorr the God Butcher (Christian Bale), who seeks the extinction of the gods. To combat the threat, Thor enlists the help of King Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson), Korg (Taika Waititi) and ex-girlfriend Jane Foster (Natalie Portman), who – to Thor’s surprise – inexplicably wields his magical hammer, Mjolnir, as the Mighty Thor. Together, they embark upon a harrowing cosmic adventure to uncover the mystery of the God Butcher’s vengeance and stop him before it’s too late.” The film also features Peter Quill aka Star-Lord (Chris Pratt), Nebula (Karen Gillan), Mantis (Pom Klementieff), Drax (Dave Bautista), Rocket (voiced by Bradley Cooper) Groot (voiced by Vin Diesel), and Zeus (Russell Crowe). #ThorLoveandThunder #ChrisHemsworth #TaikaWaititi For interviews, movie reviews, and more visit FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL