RUMOR: Marvel "Officially" Developing THOR 5...Without RAGNAROK AND LOVE AND THUNDER Director Taika Waititi

RUMOR: Marvel "Officially" Developing THOR 5...Without RAGNAROK AND LOVE AND THUNDER Director Taika Waititi

According to a new rumour, Marvel Studios is actively developing Thor 5 for the next Saga of storytelling, but Thor: Ragnarok and Thor: Love and Thunder director Taika Waititi won't be involved...

By JoshWilding - Jun 07, 2025 06:06 PM EST
Filed Under: Thor

Thor: Love and Thunder had the potential to be one of the best Marvel Studios movies ever. Heavily inspired by Jason Aaron's Thor run and featuring both The Mighty Thor and Gorr the God Butcher, the sequel had heaps going for it, including Thor: Ragnarok director Taika Waititi. 

The filmmaker had successfully reinvented the God of Thunder in 2017, and fans were excited to see what he'd do next. Unfortunately, he delivered a movie which largely disappointed fans, and even Chris Hemsworth has repeatedly acknowledged that the movie fell short. 

Most fans agree that, after running wild with Thor: Love and Thunder and making the franchise too comedic, it's best for Waititi to move on. Extraction director Sam Hargrave has been named as a possible contender to helm Thor 5, and we have another update on the movie today.

According to scooper Daniel Richtman, Thor 5 is now "officially" in development at Marvel Studios. The movie will be part of the next Saga, post-Avengers: Secret Wars, and Waititi definitely isn't returning to direct. Instead, the Odinson will be getting another fresh start. 

This feels like the right decision. There are still plenty of characters and storylines worth adapting, and a new movie could kick off another trilogy for the beloved character.  

"I got caught up in the improv and the wackiness, and I became a parody of myself," Hemsworth previously said of Thor: Love and Thunder"I didn’t stick the landing."

Reflecting on his tenure as Thor, Hemsworth also admitted that he'd grown frustrated with playing the character before Thor: Ragnarok"Sometimes I felt like a security guard for the team," he said of Joss Whedon's Avengers movies. "I would read everyone else’s lines, and go, Oh, they got way cooler stuff. They’re having more fun. What’s my character doing?"

"It was always about, 'You’ve got the wig on. You’ve got the muscles. You’ve got the costume. Where’s the lighting?' Yeah, I’m part of this big thing, but I’m probably pretty replaceable."

Since then, Hemsworth has been added to the cast of Avengers: Doomsday. Similar to how Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame reinvented the character, we'd bet on the Russo Brothers doing the same again as they set out to conclude the Multiverse Saga. 

It's worth pointing out that with $760.9 million at the worldwide box office, Thor: Love and Thunder wasn't that far behind Thor: Ragnarok's $865 million haul (even a drop of over $100 million was a good result in the post-pandemic era). With that in mind, there's really no reason not to move forward with Thor 5.

As always, keep checking back here for updates as we have them. 

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harryba11zack
harryba11zack - 6/7/2025, 6:04 PM
yeah no shit
Batmangina
Batmangina - 6/7/2025, 6:11 PM
RUMOR: Marvel "Officially" Developing

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BackwardGalaxy
BackwardGalaxy - 6/7/2025, 6:11 PM
How can something be rumor and official?
harryba11zack
harryba11zack - 6/7/2025, 6:14 PM
@BackwardGalaxy - it's an official rumor
SteviesRightFoo
SteviesRightFoo - 6/7/2025, 6:20 PM
Every single thing about love and thunder was garbage. One of the worst films I've ever seen
TheWinkler
TheWinkler - 6/7/2025, 6:38 PM
@SteviesRightFoo - On pen and paper, the story isn't half bad. Taika was just high on his own supply and the movie was scripted and shot like a What We Do In The Shadows episode.
TheWinkler
TheWinkler - 6/7/2025, 6:40 PM
@SteviesRightFoo - Forgot to add;

I think Love and Thunder is the absolute, hands down, worst MCU movie and I hate they wasted their one Christian Bale token on it.
mountainman
mountainman - 6/7/2025, 7:47 PM
@SteviesRightFoo - The worst movie in the entire MCU. Such an abomination that, outside of that opening scene from Bale, had literally nothing good going for it.
Yellow
Yellow - 6/7/2025, 7:48 PM
@SteviesRightFoo - the score was great, I mean...can't go wrong with Gianccino.
WEAPONXOXOXO
WEAPONXOXOXO - 6/7/2025, 6:22 PM
I officially heard a rumor that Thor 5 is rumored to be officially rumored to be in development.
But it's only a rumor.
Officially

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Lokiwasright
Lokiwasright - 6/7/2025, 6:50 PM
@WEAPONXOXOXO - User Comment Image
Goldboink
Goldboink - 6/7/2025, 7:25 PM
@WEAPONXOXOXO -

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grif
grif - 6/7/2025, 6:22 PM
but is it possible?

MuadDib
MuadDib - 6/7/2025, 6:24 PM
It would be cool if he stayed as Thor post Secret Wars and everyone else got recast, he was the lone hold over from the old universe. Obviously several characters won’t be recast, F4 for example, but the general idea sounds interesting.
SonOfAGif
SonOfAGif - 6/7/2025, 6:30 PM
It's good to see we will still have OG heroes part of the next Saga.
incredibleTalk
incredibleTalk - 6/7/2025, 6:32 PM
I guess the official rumor is that we are getting...

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PatientXero
PatientXero - 6/7/2025, 6:43 PM
Good. His Thor films, like the other ones. Aren’t very good.
tBHzHomer
tBHzHomer - 6/7/2025, 6:45 PM
Thor 5 should be completely off world and full-on fantasy.
CaptainFlapjaks
CaptainFlapjaks - 6/7/2025, 7:02 PM
@tBHzHomer - peter jackson epic?
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 6/7/2025, 7:04 PM
@tBHzHomer - that would be cool

Thor & Love being chased around the cosmos being hunted by Hercules

You could delve in the daddy issues of Thor & Odin and Hercules & Zeus as a way to parallel and connect both characters and even feed into how that shapes Thor as a dad to Love
Killuminatic
Killuminatic - 6/7/2025, 7:54 PM
@CaptainFlapjaks - A Peter Jackson esque, sweeping epic of grand proportions. It needs to be an ambitious project shot on location with practical sets and effects, with great writing and a good team to deliver it.
CorndogBurglar
CorndogBurglar - 6/7/2025, 6:47 PM
I hated both Ragnarok and Love and Thunder.

I know its not a popular opinion not liking Ragnarok, but they just made it too comical.

And L&T is easily top 3 worst Marvel movies.
CaptainFlapjaks
CaptainFlapjaks - 6/7/2025, 7:00 PM
@CorndogBurglar - i personally think they struck a good balance with the comical and serious elements for ragnarok. But love abd thunder definitely took it waay to far in the silliness camp. And it suffered because of it.
PapaBear562
PapaBear562 - 6/7/2025, 7:32 PM
@CorndogBurglar - I agree, and know many others didn't like it as well. They disrespected Anthony Hopkins' Odin. He's supposed to be one the most powerful entities in the MCU and they made him a feeble old man. Heck, I didn't like the way he was portrayed in the second Thor film.
CorndogBurglar
CorndogBurglar - 6/7/2025, 6:50 PM
Taika is just annoying to me. He tries to put his dumb humor in everything.

Even his Mandalorian episode managed to piss me off. How are you gonna have a scene of 2 Storm Troopers in the desert making jokes about how bad their aim is, and they cant even shoot something at point blank range. Then transition directly over to our heroes being pinned down by a bunch of Storm Troopers?

You just made a joke about how Storm Troopers cant hit their targets, in universe, and now I'm supposed to be worried that the heroes are in any kind of danger?

Dude is a hack.
LebaneseSpidey1
LebaneseSpidey1 - 6/7/2025, 6:52 PM
Please bring Beta Ray Bill in the MCU. It’s finally time and then our Chris can get a proper send off.
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CaptainFlapjaks
CaptainFlapjaks - 6/7/2025, 6:58 PM
If they want to go back into a more heartfelt direction for the send off, maybe they should look into brad bird. Or maybe the daniels. They worked with the russos before so i could see them do marvel at some point.
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 6/7/2025, 7:33 PM
@CaptainFlapjaks - those could be interesting choices , especially The Daniels…

Their work tends to have this surrealist/absurdist quality to it which idk if would appeal to everyone but neither did Taika so oh well.

They do tend to have heart which is more important
CaptainFlapjaks
CaptainFlapjaks - 6/7/2025, 7:45 PM
@TheVisionary25 - i think the surrealist thing wasnt what turned people off taika but instead his overuse of humour. Taika did absurdist with jojo rabbit and it was amazing. I think you need someone who isnt afraid to tackle the fantasy elements of thor but treating it with both serious emotional weight and fun.
CaptainFlapjaks
CaptainFlapjaks - 6/7/2025, 7:49 PM
@TheVisionary25 - i think someone mentioned what if thor 5 was a high fantasy epic and that would be brilliant. But the only ones who i think could pull that off and also do a marvel film would be peter jackson and del toro. Denis vilnneuve would be a dream but him doing a comic book movie is about as likely as terrance howard coming back as rhodes
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 6/7/2025, 7:56 PM
@CaptainFlapjaks - oh no , I don’t mean Taika had a aburdist tyke but that his style and sensibilities such as sense of humor wasn’t for everyone

I think Love & Thunder was were he went overboard to an extent even though the emotional beats still worked for me while Ragnarok had a better balance
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 6/7/2025, 7:00 PM
Even as someone who liked L & T as flawed it is overall (and of course Ragnarok) , this is the right decision still I feel just for the sake of change and freshness…

However it will be interesting to see if this is true or not since there are rumors that Thor will have a heroic sacrifice in Doomsday/Secret Wars.

Anyway , I think Sam Hargrave is a good choice to helm the next installment or Aaron Moorhead & Justin Benson could be intriguing aswell.

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THEKENDOMAN
THEKENDOMAN - 6/7/2025, 7:03 PM
@JoshWilding

Come on matey, stop [frick]ing around.

We both know this is no [frick]ing rumour.

That [frick]er is not coming back.

He turned Thor into a [frick]ing [foo foo].

You know it and I know it, every [frick]er he knows it.

Why the [frick] is this an article

For [frick] sake
MisterBones
MisterBones - 6/7/2025, 7:03 PM
Love and Thunder was criminal
ModHaterSLADE
ModHaterSLADE - 6/7/2025, 7:20 PM
Yeah, Waititi is good with comedy but he tends to go off the rails and get too silly with his projects at times.
TheShellyMan
TheShellyMan - 6/7/2025, 7:33 PM
This is old news, Josh...
OrgasmicPotatoe
OrgasmicPotatoe - 6/7/2025, 7:48 PM
I liked Thor Ragnarok as the palate cleanser that it was, but the franchise needed to move on from that brand, not double down on it.
AnthonyVonGeek
AnthonyVonGeek - 6/7/2025, 7:59 PM
No Taika?
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gambgel
gambgel - 6/7/2025, 8:10 PM
5 f***** Thor movies...

Im sorry, but this is just too much. They had too many tries. At some point you just gotta stop.

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