

So if enough of these people like the idea, maybe something will happen.” On a Thor 2 director’s cut 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. I thought he would be the toughest critic of that idea, but he seems to be actually open to it. I’ve been surprised recently to hear David hint that maybe there could be more. “Coming into it, I thought it was one and done. Then we had lunch with him, and it was obvious he was our guy.” On the possibility of more Sopranos after Many Saints of Newark. He sent in his audition, and we saw that he nailed it. “I know Allesandro has worked forever, but it didn’t clinch it till he actually self-taped. 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. So to bring in another leading man who can carry all the tones of a Sopranos story was challenging. When I began this, I was thinking, Can you really make a Sopranos story without James Gandolfini? He’s one of the pillars. “Probably the hardest to cast was Alessandro because he's the character that holds everything together. So actually casting him was the one thing I never questioned about that process.” “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. 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 think David had the idea early on but wasn't really talking about it much. “The casting choice everyone is talking about is Michael, and that was not an easy thing to do. On the two toughest roles to cast in Many Saints of Newark
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In the meantime, keeping reading for the director’s full comments on Thor: The Dark World, along with his thoughts on The Many Saints of Newark and some of his other past and future projects below.

Yeah, I don't think I'm going to get that phone call.”ĭisney probably won’t be commissioning the Taylor Cut anytime soon ( though maybe it should). Can you imagine that? They give me however many millions of dollars they gave him to go back in. “I think every director was kind of rooting for that. “I was cheering for Zack Snyder when he was doing that and thinking, Will he pull this off? This is amazing,” Taylor says. So with that in mind, would Taylor be interested in releasing a director’s cut of Thor 2? The answer is yes, but there’s a pretty big catch.

Picture alliance/picture alliance/Getty Images Taylor at the European premiere of Terminator Genisys. There was a kind of quality a wonder to the thing that was beautiful to me.”

“I have a great fondness for some of the things that went away in the original cut. “My regret was that the movie that got released was changed quite a bit,” he concludes. “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. That said, he blames the cold reception to Thor: The Dark World on the studio’s decision to change the movie’s tone mid-way through production. Now, everyone’s trying to imitate it.” “The movie that got released was changed quite a bit.” “He's doing something that no one else has ever done before and that nobody thought was possible until he did it. “First of all, I have huge respect for Kevin Feige,” Taylor says. Picture alliance/picture alliance/Getty Imagesįor years, Taylor seemed uninterested in digging into what exactly went wrong, but riding high off the success of The Many Saints of Newark, his Sopranos prequel movie that premiered the night before our interview (he apologetically tells me he has “morning voice”), he’s ready to go deep. Alan Taylor with the stars of Thor: The Dark World in 2013.
