New Zealand filmmaker, actor, and comedian Taika Waititi have given insight into the reasons why he didn’t want to direct ‘Thor’. He stated that he had no interest in guiding the Marvel film but accepted to do the job because of financial reasons.

Appearance on the SmartLess podcast, the actor talked to hosts Will Arnett, Jason Bateman, and Sean Hayes about the reason he held the job to guide the third Thor film.

“I had no interest in doing one of those films,” Waititi said. “It wasn’t on my plan for my career as an auteur. But I was poor and I’d just had a second child, and I thought, ‘You know what, this would be a great opportunity to feed these children.’”

Continuing his statement, Taika Waititi said the Thor “was probably the least popular franchise” adding, “I never read Thor comics as a kid. That was the comic I’d pick up and be like ‘Ugh.’ And then I did some research on it, and I read one Thor comic or 18 pages, or however long they are. I was still baffled by this character.”

The director stated that when Marvel Studios approached him to direct the film he thought, “Well, they’ve called me in, this is the bottom of the barrel.”

The filmmaker and actor took over the franchise with 2017’s Thor: Ragnarok after the initial film by Kenneth Branagh in 2011 and the sequel Thor: The Dark World directed by Alan Taylor, released in 2013. Ragnarok was highly acclaimed and a box office success totaling $853M worldwide. Waititi would direct a second film in 2022 titled Thor: Love and Thunder.

The director recently went on the record saying that if there’s a Thor 5 he would not directing.

“I wouldn’t know if that’s accurate,” Waititi told Business Insider about rumors he was directing another Thor film. “I know that I won’t be involved.”

He added, “I’m going to concentrate on these other films that I’ve signed on for.”

Source: Ghanafuo.com