It seems like the best plan for getting through the grueling process of big-budget studio filmmaking is taking it one small step at a time.
Speaking on the debut episode of Shudder’s new podcast “Visitations,” that’s what Taika Waititi said he learned from fellow New Zealand filmmaker Peter Jackson.After speaking with co-hosts Elijah Wood and Daniel Noah about his earlier filmmaking work on features like “Eagle vs.
Shark” and “Boy,” the conversation turned to how Waititi made the transition to the Marvel entry “Thor: Ragnarok.”“Before I did it, I had no context, no real way of knowing how to approach one of these films.
I went and saw Peter in Wellington and I said, ‘Hey man, I don’t know what the fuck I’m doing.
How do you do one of these big movies?’ And he was great.
He said, ‘It never changes after all these years.
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