After revitalizing the Thor movies with Thor: Ragnarok and swiftly burying them with Thor: Love And Thunder, Taika Waititi is putting the hammer down. Speaking with Business Insider, the director admits that he “won’t be involved” with the series’ next installment, but in his Waititian way, which is to say unnecessarily sexual about things that really don’t call for it, he described his polyamorous relationship with Marvel Studios.
“I wouldn’t know if that’s accurate,” Waititi said in response to questions about Marvel beginning work on Thor 5. “I know that I won’t be involved. I’m going to concentrate on these other films that I’ve signed on for.”
With Thor: Ragnarok, Waititi and Marvel helped each other out. Waititi’s career got a significant boost, allowing him to write, direct, and star in his passion project Jojo Rabbit, which won him an Oscar, and Marvel got a Thor movie that didn’t piss everyone off. Unfortunately, the party was shortlived as Waititi’s follow-up, Thor: Love And Thunder, did piss everyone off, garnering negative reviews and only $760 million at the box office (failure for Marvel is ludicrous). Nevertheless, Waititi is wise not to irritate his old bosses. In fact, he’s in a [sigh] “open relationship with them.”
“I love Marvel; I love working with them. I love Chris [Hemsworth],” he said. “I would never feel like they are cheating on me. We’re in an open relationship, and it’s like if they want to see other people, I’m happy for that. I’d still get back into bed with them one day.”
Waititi, whose latest movie Next Goal Wins opens this Friday, is still on the hook for an adaptation of the Alejandro Jodorowsky graphic novel The Incal and an adaption of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara And The Sun. He’s also one of the unlucky folks still waiting to see if his Star Wars movie is going to get canned. For his part, Waititi says his Star Wars is “still marinating” but he’s been writing it.