Browsing: Taika Waititi

Get those red futuristic motorcycles revved up, Warner Bros. Pictures just gave that long-gestating live-aciton adaptation of Akira a freaking release date!! Taika Waititi has been confirmed as director, too! We’d previously reported on the title a few times, that producer Leonardo DiCaprio’s passion project had been granted $18.5 million for the production to film in the Golden […]

Taika Waititi, one of our favorite filmmaker personalities, just said some lofty Star Wars words on Twitter. Okay, sure, they’re not WRONG but we’re sure someone somewhere in the galaxy took umbrage. Waititi, writer / director of such notable films as What We Do in The Shadows, Thor: Ragnarok, and Hunt for the Wilder People is […]

We’ve been seriously looking forward to more of Tessa Thompson’s Thor: Ragnarok character Valkyrie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and we’re REALLY hoping she’ll make an appearance in Avengers: Endgame. Chances are this’ll happen, at least partially, as Valkyrie was included in the massive poster release for the film featuring full-color posters for MCU citizens […]

The undead roommate comedy What We Do In The Shadows is everything we wanted it to be, and we’re thrilled the original writing/directing/producing team of Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement have embraced the FX series so fully. In a new behind-the-scenes featurette released by the network, Waititi and Clement chat a bit about the process of casting […]

It’s been awhile since we heard anything about Oscar winner Leonardo DiCaprio’s long gestating passion project; a live-action adaptation of groundbreaking anime film Akira, and Taika Waititi may be on board to direct. No, this is not a leftover April Fool’s joke. It sounds like production is ramping up as soon as this summer, with the California […]

We’re less than a month out from Star Wars Celebration Chicago where we’ll more than likely be getting our first look at Disney+ streaming Star Wars spinoff series The Mandalorian. (They even announced a panel for the tv offering during SWCC today, too.) Some of the best updates we’ve gotten about the show has been from Jon […]

Apple’s upcoming tv series Time Bandits, based on the 1981 film from Terry Gilliam, will have a pretty perfect co-writer and director- Taika Waititi. The New Zealander filmmaker will be co-writing and directing the pilot for the series (it Apple picks it up), which will be co-produced by Anonymous Content, Paramount Television and Media Rights Capital. Gilliam will […]

Okay okay, yes, this is us being extremely hopeful and jumping to conclusions based SOLEY on an Instagram post from Jason Momoa featuring filmmaker Taika Waititi and some Guinness. But, HEAR US OUT- what if Taika was thinking about directing Aquaman 2? Of course there could be several other projects the pair could be working on, as Momoa […]

Taika Waititi is one of those creative minds that we just can’t get enough of. He directed one of our favorite Marvel Studios films (Thor: Ragnarok), one of our favorite mockumentaries (What We Do In The Shadows), and will be a part of the Cosmic Conflict galaxy (directing an episode of Disney+ series The Mandalorian). Waititi’s […]

We are so thrilled to report the official release date for FX’s upcoming television series adaptation of Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement’s vampire mockumentary, What We Do In The Shadows. According to FX Network, the pilot episode of the series will air on Wednesday March 27th 2019, AND a brand-new full-length trailer was released: https://youtu.be/SyZi3rJPENs FX even sent […]