Taika Waititi Will Almost Certainly Not Be Doing A Director’s Cut Of ‘Thor: Love And Thunder’ (And He Hates Those Versions Anyway)

Taika Waititi’s Thor: Love and Thunder is not your typical Marvel movie in a number of ways. It’s goofier. It’s less serious (though it still finds room for a terrifying Christian Bale turn). It has a gorgeous scene in a Best Buy parking lot. It’s also quite a bit shorter. MCU movies tend to clock in around the 140 minute mark. One is even an epic. Thor 4 Gets it done in under two hours. It’s so short that some on social media are speculating that there could be one that’s twice as long, birthing the hashtag “#ReleaseTheWaititiCut.” Well, sorry, it ain’t gonna happen.

In an interview with NME (as caught by Variety), Waititi didn’t address the issue head-on but did imply he would never do one because he’s no fan of those editions. “I’ve been thinking about director’s cuts,” Waititi said. “I watch director’s cuts of a lot of other directors. They suck. Director’s cuts are not good. Directors need to be controlled sometimes and if I was to say, ‘Ah you wanna watch my director’s cut It’s four and a half hours long!’ It’s not good at four and a half hours. There’s a lot of cup-of-tea breaks in there, you don’t even have to pause it.”

He did, however, entertain the idea of what a Thor: Love and Thunder director’s cut would be like. “I’d say my cut would probably have a few more jokes in there,” he said. “There might be a couple of deleted scenes but as I always say, a scene is deleted because it’s not good enough to be in the film. I think the deleted scenes section on the DVD, not that they use them anymore, should just be a list of the scenes and no links so you can’t click on them!”

We’re assuming he has no problem with director’s cuts that attempt to save a film butchered by studios: Blade Runner, Once Upon a Time in America, Nightbreed, Heaven’s Gate, and, of course, that storied “Snyder Cut” of Justice League. But maybe he doesn’t like them either.

Besides, if there was a four-hour version of Love and Thunder at any point, it was probably the assembly cut, which is nothing anyone would want to watch anyway.