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Thor: The Dark World starring Chris Hemsworth and Tom Hiddleston, is again making headlines after years of its release because of an interview of film director Alan Taylor with Inverse.

Alan, in the interview, reveals that he would love to have his own Snyder cut, but he knows that the studios won't make it happen.

He said, “First of all, I have huge respect for Kevin Feige. I think he’s doing something that no one else has ever done before and that nobody thought was possible until he did it. Now, everyone's trying to imitate it.”

“For me, the process was not fun. I focused all my attention on making a certain movie. And then, in the editing process, decisions were made to change it a lot. He’s got an empire he’s running and things have to be changed to fit into other things. My regret was that the movie that got released was changed quite a bit in a way that I couldn't shape, really. I mean, I shot all the material that we put in the movie, but we set out to make one movie, and then major plot points were reversed in post. It’s not the ideal way to work.”

“So yeah, I have a great fondness for some of the things that went away in the original cut. There was a kind of quality a wonder to the thing that was beautiful to me. I think I was brought in to bring some Game of Thronesiness to it in reaction to the first Thor, which was a little too shiny, was my feeling. And then partway through, they started to realize that they wanted to hit in a different direction. So it was kind of a stumbling process.”

“That said, they know exactly what they’re doing and I’ve seen other directors go in there and nail it, like Taika Waititi and James Gunn. The difference is, those guys were writing and directing. I think that’s a healthier way to go into the Marvel Universe. So it was a learning experience.”

“I was cheering for Snyder when he was doing that and thinking, Will he pull this off? This is amazing. I think every director was kind of rooting for that. I would love to, I mean to. Can you imagine that? They give me however many millions of dollars they gave him to go back in. Yeah, I don’t think I’m going to get that phone call.”

Taylor added, “I focused all my attention on making a certain movie, and then in the editing process, decisions were made to change it a lot,” Taylor says, adding that while he was brought in to give the MCU a bit of “Game of Thronesiness” that ultimately wasn’t what the studio went with.

“It’s funny, whenever I go into this topic, it goes viral. The Marvel Universe is rich and passionate you can say almost nothing and it will catch fire.”

“My regret was that the movie that got released was changed quite a bit,” he concludes. “I have a great fondness for some of the things that went away in the original cut. There was a kind of quality a wonder to the thing that was beautiful to me.”

The 49-year-old American director in the interview also talked about his crime drama television series The Many Saints of Newark.

The show is centered around the emerging tensions between the Italian-Americans and African-Americans after the events of the 1967 riots that took place between African Americans and White Americans.

Source: Variety 

The 49-year-old American director in the interview also talked about his crime drama television series The Many Saints of Newark.The show is centered around the emerging tensions between the Italian-Americans and African-Americans after the events of the 1967 riots that took place between African Americans and White Americans.Taylor said, “The casting choice everyone is talking about is Michael [Gandolfini], and that was not an easy thing to do. I think David [Chase] had the idea early on but wasn't really talking about it much. Eventually, we had to give it a shot. I was worried because I had never seen him act before, and we're also wondering if we can really ask the young guy to do the emotional journey and go into his dad's work like that.”

“I heard recently through the press — he never said this to me — that his first reaction was, ‘Hell, no, I'm not going to do that." But by the time we met, he decided he wanted to do it. So actually casting him was the one thing I never questioned about that process.”

He added, “Probably the hardest to cast was Alessandro [Nivola] because he's the character that holds everything together. When I began this, I was thinking, Can you really make a Sopranos story without James Gandolfini? He’s one of the pillars. So to bring in another leading man who can carry all the tones of a Sopranos story was challenging. Somebody who can be romantic, be sexy, be funny, be dangerous, be psychotic, be all the things that you have to do if you're going to be the centerpiece of the Sopranos movie.

“I know Allesandro has worked forever, but it didn’t clinch it till he actually self-taped. He sent in his audition, and we saw that he nailed it. Then we had lunch with him, and it was obvious he was our guy

“Coming into it, I thought it was one and done. I’ve been surprised recently to hear David hint that maybe there could be more. I thought he would be the toughest critic of that idea, but he seems to be actually open to it. Last night, we had a big party after our premiere and Terry Winter was there (one of the main writers on Sopranos) and he likes the idea too. So if enough of these people like the idea, maybe something will happen.”

Source: USA Today 

Marvel Studios Thor: The Dark World was not a big commercial success for the studio as it only earned over $640 million around the world. The film received overall bad reviews and reactions from the critics as well as fans and followers. It was heavily criticized for its storyline and lack of good battle scenes and bad visual effects.