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Taika David Cohen ONZM (born 16 August 1975), known professionally as Taika Waititi(/ˈtaɪkə ˈwaɪtɪti/ TY-kə WY-tee-tee), is a New Zealand filmmaker, actor and comedian. He is known for directing quirky comedy films and has expanded his career as a voice actor and producer on numerous projects. He has received multiple accolades, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award and a Grammy Award. Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2022. His feature films Boy (2010) and Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016) have each been the top-grossing New Zealand film. Waititi's 2003 short film Two Cars, One Night earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Live Action Short Film. He co-wrote, co-directed and starred in the horror comedy film What We Do in the Shadows (2014) with Jemaine Clement, which was adapted into a television series of the same name in 2019. The series has been nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series. His directing credits include the superhero films Thor: Ragnarok (2017) and Thor: Love and Thunder (2022), as well as the black comedy film Jojo Rabbit (2019), the last of which he also wrote and starred in as an imaginary version of Adolf Hitler. Jojo Rabbit received six Academy Award nominations and won Best Adapted Screenplay. Waititi also earned a Grammy Award for producing the film's soundtrack. In television, Waititi co-created and produced the comedy-drama series Reservation Dogs and directed, produced, and starred in the comedy Our Flag Means Death. In addition to directing an episode of The Mandalorian series, he voiced the character IG-11, for which he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance. Description above from the Wikipedia article Taika Waititi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Taika Waititi
LarryThe World‑Weary BugGuide
for LarryThe World‑Weary BugGuide in I Hate Fairyland
Suggested by lllaryn34
Once upon a time, a little girl named Gertrude made a wish — and Fairyland answered. That was thirty years ago. Gertrude never found her way home. While her body stayed frozen in childhood, her mind aged, hardened, and eventually snapped. Now she's a foul-mouthed, axe-swinging wrecking ball tearing through a world of pastel skies and talking mushrooms — and she hates every last inch of it. I Hate Fairyland is the black comedy fantasy comic series by Skottie Young, published by Image Comics — a story that takes everything you love about classic fairy tale adventure and gleefully drenches it in chaos. Think Adventure Time aesthetics meets Tank Girl attitude, wrapped around a protagonist whose rage is as earned as it is excessive. This fan cast project imagines what a live-action/animated film adaptation could look like — who brings Gertrude's volcanic fury to life, who voices the insufferably cheerful citizens of Fairyland, and who steps into the shoes of the queen who started it all. Fairyland has never been kind to Gertrude. Let's see if Hollywood does any better.
