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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
The Wandering Trader
for The Wandering Trader in Minecraft: The Overworld (Sony Pictures 2026)
Suggested by kaueoliveira
The film abandons the "real-world people sucked into the game" trope. Instead, it is a high-fantasy survival film set entirely within the cubic universe, treated with seriousness and genuine danger. Steve wakes up on an untouched beach with no memory of who he is or how he got there. The world is beautiful, but deadly. When the sun sets, the monsters come out. The film follows Steve's solitary journey to master his environment: punching trees, building his first dirt shelter, mining iron, and understanding the physics of this universe. His solitude ends when he meets Alex, a nomadic warrior searching for "The End," a mythical place from where the shadow creatures emerge. Together, they discover ancient ruins that tell the story of a civilization of "Builders" wiped out by a corrupted entity, the legendary Herobrine (a glitch in reality), who threatens to consume the world in void. They must travel to the Nether and fortify their defenses for the final battle.
