Taika Waititi issued a brutal response to Marvel 'nerds' that said he would ‘ruin Thor’ after taking over directing duties.
The New Zealand filmmaker took the reins of the much-loved Marvel series with 2017's Thor: Ragnarok, a film that did remarkably well amongst film critics.
The seven-year-old sits at a massive 93 percent Rotten Tomatoes score to this day, making it one of the best reviewed Marvel projects of all time.
Waititi has been reflecting on that and many of his other film projects during a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly.
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The director says he couldn't have made the Thor franchise any worse if he tried - so it's a good job he knocked it out the park with Thor: Ragnarok.
He told the outlet: "That really propelled me into the nerdosphere, if you will. I was living a really lovely, peaceful life, and as soon as I did this, well boy, did the nerds come for me. They said, 'This guy's gonna ruin this. He's gonna ruin Thor!'
"It's like, 'What, you mean again?'" he recalled. "And they were like, 'He's gonna ruin this for everyone, Thor's so cool!' And I said to them on Twitter — before I left Twitter — I said, 'You don't know what you want until I give it to you.'"
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Waititi's take on the Thor franchise followed 2013's Thor: The Dark World, which didn't seem to hit the right spots for a lot of Marvel fans.
The decade old film sits at a 67 percent Rotten Tomatoes score, certainly meaning the film isn't a Marvel classic.
So, it was Waititi that was sent in to save the day with Ragnarok, though he never thought he would ever direct a Marvel movie.
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Speaking to SmartLess last year, Waititi said: "I had no interest in doing one of those films. 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.'"
Aside from the 2017 Thor movie, Waititi has worked on the likes of on the likes of The Mandalorian - something the director has fond memories of.
"My favorite memory of this was turning up to set and getting to direct 75 stormtroopers," he told Entertainment Weekly.
"And the little boy inside me, who I've kept locked away, he just tried to leap out, and be, 'Yay, this is my dream come true!' 'All right, shut up, kid,' and I locked him back, I pushed him back down."
Topics: Taika Waititi, Marvel, The Mandalorian, Film and TV
Callum Jones