It sounds as though Taika Waititi never intended to be part of any Marvel project at all. The director, in his delightfully tongue-in-cheek manor, shared that the only reason he took on Thor: Ragnarok was because he was "poor" and needed to feed his two children.
During an episode of The Smartless Podcast, the What We Do In The Shadows creator expressed his reluctance to take on his first Thor movie, "You know what? I had no interest in doing one of those films," Waititi said laughingly. "It wasn’t on my plan for my career as an auteur. But I was poor and I’d just had a second child, and I thought, 'You know what, this would be a great opportunity to feed these children.'"
