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NEWS: Live-Action Akira Film Delayed Indefinitely

Error: "Entertainment new website The Hollywood Reporter reported on Tuesday that Waititi is directing Warner Bros.' Thor 4 film." (This is supposed to be "Disney's," I have to imagine.)

Just let it be known that this very day, July 16, is the day that the Akira movie opens with.

If that isn't symbolic of something, then I don't know what is.

Anyway, there really doesn't need to be more Thor movies, and while it's likely the case that an Akira live-action isn't a much better idea, they need to make up their mind about it before it just becomes a lazy afterthought production.

At a meeting that some in Hollywood might consider unusual, Feige not only listened to his star’s concerns—he took notes. “I feel l like I’m dying here,” Hemsworth told Feige. “I feel like I have handcuffs on.”

“It has to be funnier; it has to be unpredictable,” the actor remembered saying. “Tonally, we’ve just got to wipe the table again.” That reset for Thor—and a massive infusion of improvisational humor—came courtesy of Thor: Ragnarok director Taika Waititi, who helped transform Marvel’s most stately and straitlaced property into a zany, no-holds-barred adventure that gave Guardians of the Galaxy competition for the oddball crown.

But by the time Endgame rolled around—and so many of his castmates were ready to say goodbye—Hemsworth was just getting started on this newer, funnier Thor. Sitting opposite from me, his greasy wig lank and his unkempt beard scraggly, Hemsworth said he was finally playing Thor as he was meant to, not as he was expected to. This is the exact lesson Frigga imparts to her heartbroken son in Endgame.

“It’s time to be who I am instead of who I’m supposed to be,” Thor tells Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson) as Endgame wraps up.

Sitting on the set of Endgame in 2017, watching Hemsworth improvise zinger after zinger through that tumbleweed of a beard, Robert Downey Jr. told me he was excited for the actor’s future in the Marvel Cinematic Universe—even if it meant soldiering on without the original Avengers by his side: “I don’t even know how to express my joy at Chris’s vibe right now. Hemsworth. Dude, it’s just too great.”

“Some people come out of the gates with all the confidence in the world,” Hemsworth said of his long period of uncertainty in the M.C.U., “and I think I was always looking for someone to steer me in the right direction.”