Scarlett Johansson, Roman Griffin Davis and Taika Waititi on the set of “Jojo Rabbit.” Kimberley French After the Variety cover shoot at h Club in Hollywood is over, Waititi talks about his ...

Several years ago, New Zealand filmmaker Taika Waititi (“Thor: Ragnarok”) was writing an adaptation of “Caging Skies,” an obsessive love story between a Hitler Youth boy and the Jewish ...

It's a very dark comedy. I talked to Waititi earlier this week, and I asked him about the main character, a boy named Jojo Rabbit. TAIKA WAITITI: Well, where do I start? He's a little boy in the ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. The new film "Jojo Rabbit" won the People's Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival. My guest Taika Waititi wrote, directed and co-stars in the ...

Writer-director Taika Waititi’s “Jojo Rabbit,” the latest example of this resilient trend, shows both the pleasures and the limits of a seriously off-the-wall idea. Erratic but engaging ...

Taika Waititi stopped by The Daily Show with Trevor Noah Thursday night where he discussed the difficulty he had when pitching Jojo Rabbit, feeling “embarrassed” for playing Hitler and how his ...

Without disruption, we’re doomed to repeat ourselves,” says Taika Waititi. He applies the label to his own sense of adventure in filmmaking, insisting that he must disrupt his own comfort in ...

By Mia Galuppo Film Writer Even Taika Waititi ... 2011 that Waititi began writing a screenplay based on Christine Leunens’ novel Caging Skies, which follows Johannes Betzler (Jojo), a boy ...

“Jojo Rabbit” has the best intentions and a very confused way of showing them. Taika Waititi’s sunny fairytale focuses on ostracized Hitler Youth Jojo (Roman Griffin Davis) and the ...

Taika Waititi is in character as Adolf Hitler in the first still released from his upcoming movie, “Jojo Rabbit.” “First still from the set of WW2 satire, #JojoRabbit: Jojo (played by Roman ...

In “Jojo Rabbit,” director Taika Waititi brings to life a World War II satire that follows a lonely German boy whose world view is turned upside down when he discovers his single mother is ...

The morning after the Academy Awards, Taika Waititi — the winner of the adapted screenplay Oscar for “Jojo Rabbit” — is drinking a Pedialyte. But however hungover the filmmaker might be ...