Thor: Ragnarok has mostly improvised scenes, and that makes it awesome

In an interview, Thor: Ragnarok director Taika Waititi says the cast improvised most of their scenes. We think it might make this the best Thor movie yet.

We all have high hopes for Thor: Ragnarok. Every new picture or video released online has fans even more excited. Because everything about this movie looks like a fan’s dream. We’ve all been wanting some iteration of Planet Hulk, right?

So we impatiently wait for Nov. 3 and hope this time around is better than The Dark World.

Have no fear! In an on-set interview with Collider, director Taika Waititi talks about … well, a lot of different things regarding the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

The biggest nugget he dropped? Most of the scenes filmed for the movie were actually improvised. Check it out:

"I’ve always found the script to be a bit more of a skeleton, the template. We improvise most scenes. I’ll be next to actors and yell suggestions at them all the time, and that goes for everyone from Tony [Hopkins] to Cate [Blanchet]. It’s a bit messy, but from that messiness comes really great spur of the moment stuff. Then the main balance is found in the editing. So with most takes, I would do stuff that’s way over the top and then bring it down & get something that’s exactly on the page and then something that’s a nice sort of middle balance where the tone is believable…"

This… seems a little crazy, right?

I wrote last year about how Thor: Ragnarok has the potential to be the funniest Phase 3 movie in the MCU. And I still stand by that thought. It may seem a little odd when you look at the whole cast, but this is also a group of incredibly talented actors.

Chris Hemsworth got his shot at showing he can pull some funny punches in the Ghostbusters reboot and also in his “what Thor was doing during Civil War” sketch. Tom Hiddleston just has fun with whatever he does. Mark Ruffalo did wonders with his sad deadpan for the Iron Man 3 post-credits scene.

And, of course, Jeff Goldblum just does whatever he wants and we’ll be happy.

So don’t fret that the scenes have been mostly improvised. If anything, it may be one of the more different Marvel outings so far. That’s not necessarily a bad thing.

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Thor: Ragnarok flies into theaters on Nov. 3.