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Filming begins on Free Guy starring Ryan Reynolds, Taika Waititi, Jodie Comer and Joe Keery

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Disney has announced that filming is now underway on Free Guy, director Shaun Levy’s (Night at the Museum) adventure comedy starring Ryan Reynolds (Pokemon: Detective Pikachu).The film will see Reynolds playing a a lonely bank teller who discovers he is actually an NPC, a background character, in the open-world videogame Free City.Production on Free Guy […]

What We Do In the Shadows TV series renewed for second season

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FX has announced a second season renewal for the small screen spin-off What We Do in the Shadows. The series comes from Thor: Ragnarok director Taika Waititi and Flight of the Concords‘ Jemaine Clement, based upon their 2014 mockumentary film of the same name, and follows three vampires living in New York City with their human familiars.The news […]

Tessa Thompson thinks Thor 4 has been pitched to Marvel

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Tessa Thompson, one of the stars of Thor: Ragnarok, thinks that Thor 4, directed by Taika Waititi, has been pitched.Thor might not have gotten off to the most blockbuster start but the franchise’s latest effort, Thor Ragnarok, certainly captured the imagination, delighting fans and critics around the world.The future of characters like Thor in the […]

Taika Waititi to voice IG-88 in Star Wars series The Mandalorian

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Back in December (on Christmas Day, to be exact), The Mandalorian executive producer Jon Favreau revealed that IG-88 will be making his Star Wars return in the upcoming live-action series, and now Favreau has taken to Instagram to seemingly reveal that the droid bounty hunter will be voiced by What We Do In the Shadows […]

Taika Waititi to write and direct Time Bandits TV pilot

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Last year it was announced that Apple has snapped up the TV rights to Terry Gilliam’s cult 80s fantasy Time Bandits for a small screen adaptation, and now comes word that the project has found a pilot director in Taika Waititi (Thor: Ragnarok).Waititi – whose other credits include What We Do In the Shadows and […]

Fans will be rewarded by Avengers: Endgame, thinks Thor: Ragnraok director Taika Waititi

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Taika Waititi, the director of Thor: Ragnarok, believes that fans are going to be rewarded by Avengers: Endgame.It’s taken us a long time to get to this stage in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and with Avengers: Endgame on the horizon, expectations are certainly high that fan investment in the franchise will be rewarded.Well, this is […]

Thor: Ragnarok’s Taika Waititi rules out directing Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

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Thor: Ragnarok director Taika Waititi has confirmed that he will not be directing Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.We have gotten multiple assurances recently that the currently directorless Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 will happen, despite James Gunn’s firing. First James’ brother Sean guaranteed it and now Chris Pratt has as well.One person that has […]

The Mandalorian will resemble the tone of the original Star Wars trilogy, says director Taika Waititi

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According to Thor: Ragnarok director Taika Waititi, The Mandalorian is going to be close in tone to the original Star Wars trilogy.Fans are getting pretty pumped for The Mandalorian – the first-ever live action Star Wars TV series. The show is heading to Disney+ in 2019 but so far we haven’t seen any actual footage so […]

FX’s What We Do In the Shadows TV series gets a full trailer

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The first full trailer has arrived online for FX’s upcoming U.S. TV spinoff of Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement’s cult comedy What We Do In the Shadows, along with a premiere date reveal for the series of March 27th; watch it here…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWUiU3t5udM&t=10sWhat We Do in the Shadows is a half-hour comedy series based on the feature […]