Taika Waititi
There are several creators out there who just don’t sleep (cough Guillermo del Toro cough). They can’t possibly with the amount of work they’re churning out! Taika Waititi is one of them but has the added weight of being an actor, director, and producer. Just this year he was writing and directing his Marvel superhero sequel Thor: Love and Thunder, cast as the dread pirate Blackbeard, seeing his New Zealand-set What We Do in the Shadows spin-off with co-producer Jemaine Clement (Wellington Paranormal) land in the U.S., filming a gross-yet-hysterical corporate synergy commercial with Ryan Reynolds (with both of them in their Marvel getups),and co-starring in Reynolds’ Free Guy. Oh, also, his Flash Gordon project might shift to live-action, he had a cameo in The Suicide Squad, he executive produced a unique and reflective sci-fi dystopian tale from first time director Danis Goulet, and last but not least: Waititi is adaptating Alejandro Jodorowsky and Jean Giraud’s (aka Moebius’) comic book, The Incal. And that’s probably not even all of it. We hope Waititi is sleeping for the entire month of December.
