Taika Waititi Wanted To Use Kate Bush Songs In Thor: Love And Thunder But Stranger Things Beat Him To It And "Ruined" It: "I'm Really Annoyed"
Taika Waititi is really "annoyed" that Strangers Things has "ruined" Kate Bush.
The British singer is currently enjoying a renaissance thanks to the appearance of her 1985 hit 'Running Up That Hill' in Season 4 of the Netflix series Stranger Things. (The show also revitalised Metallica's 'Master of Puppets'.)
When asked by NME if Waititi's Thor: Love and Thunder would "do for Guns N' Roses what Stranger Things did for Kate Bush", the Oscar-winning filmmaker quipped, "You mean how they ruined Kate Bush?"
In Thor: Love and Thunder, Waititi used four GNR tunes — 'Welcome to the Jungle', 'Paradise City', and 'Sweet Child O' Mine' from the group's 1987 debut Appetite for Destruction; and 'November Rain' from 1991's Use Your Illusion II.
"I love that show, but as someone who feels a real ownership of Kate Bush music... I'm really annoyed!
said Waititi.
"I've become one of those old a******** who's like, 'These kids never listened to Kate Bush, they've heard one song on a TV show! They don't know Kate Bush! I know Kate Bush!'"
Waititi revealed that he wanted to have a "bunch" of Kate Bush songs in his new Marvel blockbuster before Stranger Things put the singer back in the limelight.
He said: "We were gonna have 'This Woman's Work', which was gonna be great for [a scene with] Natalie Portman's character [Jane Foster]."
Perhaps one day Waititi, 46, can work those songs into a director's cut a la Zack Snyder's Justice League. Then again, don't hold your breath for that — there isn't a "Waititi Cut" of Thor: Love and Thunder.
“I’ve been thinking about director’s cuts,” he told NME. “I watch director’s cuts of a lot of other directors. They suck. Director’s cuts are not good. Directors need to be controlled sometimes and if I was to say, ‘Ah you wanna watch my director’s cut? It’s four and a half hours long!’ It’s not good, at four and a half hours. There’s a lot of cup-of-tea breaks in there, you don’t even have to pause it.”
That said, he did have an idea of what an extended cut of Thor: Love and Thunder would look like.
“I’d say my cut would probably have a few more jokes in there," he said. "There might be a couple of deleted scenes but as I always say, a scene is deleted because it’s not good enough to be in the film. I think the deleted scenes section on the DVD, not that they use them anymore, should just be a list of the scenes and no links so you can’t click on them!”
Thor: Love and Thunder (PG13) is now in cinemas. — BANG SHOWBIZ
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