‘Thor: The Dark World’ Director Talks Marvel Movie Backlash: “I Lost the Will to Live as a Director” | THR News - video Dailymotion

'Thor: The Dark World' director Alan Taylor is opening up about the backlash the movie received, saying he "lost the will to live as a director."

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00:00What's gonna happen?

00:04I gave you my word. I would return for you.

00:09Thor The Dark World director Alan Taylor is opening up about the backlash the movie received,

00:14saying he, quote, lost the will to live as a director.

00:17As part of a deep-dive interview with The Hollywood Reporter about his career

00:20and making the new Sopranos prequel movie The Many Saints of Newark,

00:23the Emmy-winning director got candid about the toughest period during his decades of filmmaking,

00:27when he directed two major franchise pictures back-to-back,

00:30Thor The Dark World and Terminator Genisys.

00:32After helming dozens of acclaimed episodes of prestige TV shows ranging from Mad Men to The Sopranos to Game of Thrones,

00:38Marvel offered Taylor the 2013 Thor sequel.

00:41Taylor tells THR,

00:42Marvel president Kevin Feige was always smart about looking at what worked and didn't in the last iteration

00:47and trying to retool from that, so I came in to bring some Game of Thrones to it.

00:51The Dark World is considered one of the MCU's weakest entries, even if it was a box-office success.

00:56Some known factors in its creative troubles included a tight production deadline

01:00and a script that was seemingly never finished.

01:03Thor, your bravery will not ease your pain.

01:08A few months before The Dark World was released,

01:10Taylor received an offer to direct another massive franchise film, Terminator Genisys.

01:15This is all wrong. John sent me here to save you.

01:17From the Terminator that was sent back to kill me, I know, but we already took care of him.

01:22We?

01:23I've been waiting for you.

01:26Taylor says,

01:27All the voices in my head and all the ones around me were saying I should do it because who didn't love the first two films?

01:33I thought we would go in and fix the script and everything would be great.

01:36Once again, the film was profitable, but the critic and fandom mobs were brutal.

01:40Taylor says of the impact it had on him,

01:42I had lost the will to make movies. I lost the will to live as a director.

01:45I'm not blaming any person for that.

01:47The process was not good for me, so I came out of it having to rediscover the joy of filmmaking.

01:52For THR's full profile of director Alan Taylor, go to THR.com.

01:56For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Tiffany Taylor.