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With Marvel’s Thor: Love and Thunder opening in theaters July 8th, I recently got to speak with Chris Hemsworth and writer-director Taika Waititi about making the MCU sequel here in Los Angeles. Since I’d heard the movie had a lot of deleted scenes, I decided to use some of my limited time to ask them about it. Thankfully, they were more than happy to share why their four-hour cut of the film didn’t work (they sacrificed story for jokes) and how it played like a Monty Python sketch. Now before you start petitioning Marvel to release the longer version, you should realize every film has a much longer assembly cut (it’s where the editor includes everything that has been shot) and there is a reason fans never see them — they’re not very good. The assembly cut is the starting point. And it’s where many filmmakers think they have a disaster on their hands. But over the course of many months, and sometimes over a year, the film slowly comes together and all of a sudden you have the final product. That
