Thor: Love and Thunder is less than two hours long, and whether you love or loath the movie, there's simply no denying that it needed to be even longer. The blockbuster moves at a breakneck pace, leaving little time to fully explore its characters or even the ideas at its core (there were a lot of jokes, though).
Natalie Portman has talked about entire characters and planets that were cut, while Christian Bale has revealed he shot scenes with Jeff Goldblum and Peter Dinklage that were M.I.A. in the Thor: Ragnarok sequel.
With that in mind, you might be hoping that filmmaker Taika Waititi has a Director's Cut planned.
Nope.
"Director’s cuts are not good," he revealed during a recent interview with NME. "I’ve been thinking about director’s cuts. 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."
As for what a Thor: Love and Thunder Director's Cut might look like, Waititi added, "I’d say my cut would probably have a few more jokes in there. 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 can't say that we necessarily agree with Waititi's comments here as there are lots of Director's Cuts that are vastly better than the original versions (Zack Snyder's Justice League is an obvious recent example). Marvel Studios has a habit of not releasing big deleted scenes - the Doctor Strange sequel springs to mind - but they're clearly not saving them for extended versions!
Hopefully, we'll see more from Thor: Love and Thunder when that home entertainment release rolls around...and it won't just be more jokes.
Thor: Love and Thunder is now playing in theaters.