When Thor: Love and Thunder hit cinemas last month it came without a number of MCU cameos that were not only planned but seemingly filmed with stars like Peter Dinklage, Lena Heady and Jeff Goldblum all making guest appearances that were left on the cutting room floor. Director Taika Waititi has said that although fans would no doubt like to see these scenes in the Blu-ray and DVD release, the scenes will remain incomplete and unreleased as they just didn’t fit in the story. However, a new piece of concept art has given just a glimpse at how one of those moments would have looked, featuring Jeff Goldblum’s Grandmaster, who was last seen in the post credits scene of Thor: Ragnarok
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Thor’s return has been something of a mixed bag, with the movie being a hit in cinemas but failing to match Thor: Ragnarok’s critic and audience scores when it comes to reviews. Many have said that Waititi’s need to cram in as many jokes, including a love it or hate it running gag of screaming goats, into the film ended up making the story more a collection of scenes rather than a coherent narrative, and it seems that some of that narrative could have come from around two hours of footage that was filmed but not used in the final cut.
Visual artist Laurent Ben-Mimoun has now at least given fans a small look at what Jeff Goldblum’s lost cameo could have looked like in an official concept piece that sees the Grandmaster in a Sakaarian ship, where Korg’s disembodied face can be seen on a workbench, suggesting that the scene would have taken place after Thor’s encounter with Zeus. What exactly would have led to the scene is still unknown, and it seems like it will remain so. Check out the image below.
Taika Waititi Left Much of Thor: Love and Thunder On The Cutting Room Floor
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Every Marvel movie has some deleted or alternative scenes that are filmed and then removed, either for pacing, coherence or another reason. Thor: Love and Thunder reportedly had more than most with the original cut of the movie coming in around four hours long before it was cut in half to make the version that was released in theaters. Fans have become used to seeing a lot of this footage in bonus home releases and online BTS content, but despite leaving almost a full movie on the cutting room floor, Waititi will seemingly not let it be released in any form. He previously said:
“I wrote the thing so when you cut anything it’s a little bit of a challenge to yourself because you’re like, “Am I not that good? Should I have seen this coming?” But every film I’ve done I’ve probably cut the same amount out. When you go into the edit you just never know. A scene on its own could be the most funniest thing or intriguing thing, but sometimes those things if you keep them in will just make the movie screech to a halt. So you have to do what’s best for the film. And if you ask any of those actors who were cut out — Jeff Goldblum, Lena Headey, Peter Dinklage — they all understand how it works. They have been in the game long enough. But that’s just the way I look at things. People say, “I can’t wait for the deleted scenes with those actors.” I don’t want people to see the deleted scenes because they’re deleted for a reason: They aren’t good enough.”
