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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.

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The Marksman: A Veteran's Child is a 2026 American science fiction action film directed by Joseph Kosinski and produced by Neill Blomkamp, Jerry Bruckheimer, and Gore Verbinski from a screenplay by Blomkamp and James Cameron. A co-production between Legendary Pictures, The Stone Quarry, and RatPac-Dune Entertainment, it is the second installment in the Marksman trilogy and the direct sequel to The Marksman. The film stars Sasha Calle returning in the title role and replacing the previous one played by Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, alongside Gina Rodriguez, Terry Crews, Josh Brolin, Sylvester Stallone, Abdul-Mateen, Tom Hiddleston, Taika Waititi, Hiroyuki Sanada, Laurence Fishburne, Russell Crowe, and Michael Douglas. In the film, Amara O'Connor must honor her late father's legacy when she is transported to a different future than the one she came from. Aided by her mother Emilia, uncle Danny, godfather Ethan Breck and cousin Michael Wilson, she works to prevent this future from happening in the present time, and must find a poisonous gas bomb and bring it back to the present to wipe out the alien race that is set to provoke humanity into war. The Marksman: A Veteran's Child was released in theaters on December 18th, 2026; it grossed $814 million worldwide against a break-even point of $140 million and received acclaim for its action sequences and Calle's performance. It has been called one of the most stunning science fiction films. A sequel is currently in production.