

Taylor’s next directorial release will be The Sopranos prequel The Many Saints of Newark, which already has fans of the gangster series buzzing after the first full trailer dropped. In a revealing new interview, Thor: The Dark World director Alan Taylor has opened up on how the movie changed in post, and why he later 'lost the will to live.' Marvel Studios has never released. That process required returning to his HBO roots, sort of. It was in post-production that the film underwent. So I came out of it having to rediscover the joy of filmmaking.” Filming on Thor: The Dark World began in September 2012 in England and continued through December, and by most accounts the shoot went well. “I had lost the will to make movies,” Taylor said. Shortly after the Dark World debacle, Terminator: Genisys bombed, and Taylor was ready to call it quits. Strange which are the worse releases by marvel so far. That being said, it’s far better than Captain Marvel, Spider Man Far From Home or even Dr. When Thor: The Dark World hit theaters, the fan reaction was brutal, and to this day, it’s still regarded as one of the least embraced entries in the MCU. Dark World is not as good as the first Thor movie and nothing compared to Ragnarok. And there were major plot differences that were inverted in the cutting room and with additional photography - people who had died were not dead, people who had broken up were back together again. I like the different feel to it along with the first movie and I actually do prefer this over its predecessor. There was weird stuff going on back on Earth because of the convergence that allowed for some of these magical realism things. Overall: Thor: The Dark World I found to be a really good experience. “The version I had started off with had more childlike wonder there was this imagery of children, which started the whole thing,” he says of the unseen “Taylor Cut.” “There was a slightly more magical quality. Release Calendar DVD & Blu-ray Releases Top 250 Movies Most Popular Movies Browse Movies by Genre Top Box Office Showtimes & Tickets In Theaters Coming Soon Movie News India Movie Spotlight. Alan Taylor, the film's director, speaks on that. In a surprising admission given the character’s recent success, Taylor says Loki would have stayed dead in his version. Thor: Love and Thunder (2022) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Thor: The Dark World is probably one of the worst movies in the Marvel Studios Cinematic Universe, but its director assures that there is a different version. Thor: The Dark World was a box office success, but its Marvel legacy is that of a disappointing installment. According to Taylor, he signed on to an entirely different when he agreed to the Thor sequel, a “Taylor Cut” if you will, and the movie became an entirely different creation during the editing and reshoot process.

“I think my skill set may be different.During a lengthy feature on his directorial career, Alan Taylor revealed that the backlash to Thor: The Dark World made him want to end his career, particularly when coupled with the backlash to Terminator: Genisys, which arrived shortly thereafter. “I really admire the skill set of somebody who can go in with a very personal vision - like Taika Waititi or James Gunn - and manage to combine it with the big corporate demands,” Taylor told THR. So I came out of it having to rediscover the joy of filmmaking.”ĭespite being an Emmy-winning television director for his work on Game of Thrones and The Sopranos, Taylor suggested that a writer-director type like Thor: Ragnarok’s Taika Waititi may have been able to save The Dark World. “I had lost the will to make movies,” Taylor says. Taylor added that he was so affected by directing Thor: The Dark World that his girlfriend recommended he turn down director Terminator: Genisys, but Taylor took the job to similar results as Thor: Dark World: A respectable box office, but backlash from fans. It would have looked like it was my fault.” Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins bowed out as director due to script issues, saying she "did not believe that I could make a good movie out of the script that they were planning on doing. The sequel earned $644 million globally, but production seemed troubled before Taylor even arrived. In a revealing new interview, Thor: The Dark World director Alan Taylor has opened up on how the movie changed in post, and why he later 'lost the will to live. Thor: The Dark World was by no means a box office bomb.
