Taika Waititi Says Read the Comic if you want a better Thor Film

The Love and Lightning of Thor had the potential to be the best movie that Marvel Studios has ever produced. The right ingredients were definitely there, including The Mighty Thor and Gorr the God Butcher, who were both heavily influenced by Jason Aaron's run on Thor, which served as a major inspiration.

Talking in a newly released Movie Special Book, Taika Waititi admits that it was "very difficult" to find the right tone. "It's an ongoing battle because I want my films to be entertaining," he says, "and I want a lot of humor in them - to poke fun not only at the idea of the Space Viking, but also to poke fun at humans. How we bumble our way through life on this planet."

"The comic run is very serious, and Jane's story is especially tense. And so to try to find humor around that stuff, as well as making it an emotional story, was always going to be difficult," the filmmaker continues. "And we struggled with that. We wrestled with it throughout the edit, right up until we finished the film."

"We did funny scenes about cancer, we did way more tragic scenes about having cancer. Some audiences really loved the humor part of it. Some audiences really wanted it to be just like the comics. But, you know, I always say, if you want it to be exactly like the comics read the comic. You've got to change things here and there to make it a film."