When Taika Waititi promises that his new Star Wars movie — veiled in more secrecy than Darth Sidious — will “piss people off,” I take him at his word. Appearing on the red carpet for his new movie, “Next Goal Wins,” the New Zealand-born writer/director told Variety that his one-off movie set in that galaxy far, far away “will be … dramatic pause… a Taika Waititi film.”
“It’s gonna piss people off,” he concluded.
Waititi said the “dramatic pause” part out loud because that kind of thing is all part of his goofy charm — a charm that’s become more hit-and-miss as the years go on.
My first reaction on reading the Variety report was, “Yeah, I bet Waititi will piss people off, including me.” But I really don’t like being the grumpy old man who hasn’t fully enjoyed a new action/fantasy flick since “Avengers: Endgame” in 2019. I have to stop griping about every new thing that fails to live up to expectations that George Lucas set in my eight-year-old mind back in 1977.
Waititi first drew acclaim for the short-lived TV series “Flight of the Conchords,” which perfectly captured that goofy charm of his. He cemented his reputation with 2014’s “What We Do in the Shadows.” The…
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