In a new digital-exclusive Avengers: Infinity War special feature, The Directors’ Roundtable, Waititi has once again been chatting about the Kurt Russell movie, which was all but buried by some rankled studio execs back in the ’80s, only to become a cult classic further down the road as the home market embraced the story of a man with John Wayne’s bravado who becomes almost a cartoon next to his much-more-capable supporting characters. It’s pretty easy to substitute the loss of Thor’s hammer, Mjolnir, as a stand-in for Burton’s truck in Ragnarok, but both characters become clueless avatars for the audience, too. “I don’t know if you’ve seen this, someone cobbled together this YouTube video of all the questions that Jack Burton asks,” the director later adds. “It’s five minutes long, but it’s basically every question that the audience is asking: ‘Who’s that? What is this thing? Where are we? Where are we going? Where’s my truck? I want my truck back. That was one of the main focuses on that film. Thor is always on the back foot, asking the questions that we’re asking.” Read the latest Den of Geek Special Edition Magazine Here!
