Taika-fever hits Toronto today as the New Zealand filmmaker prepares to premiere his hotly anticipated new movie before receiving a prestigious award at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).
Around lunchtime (Sunday night, Canadian time), Waititi will host the world premiere of Jojo Rabbit. The movie, which he wrote, directed
and stars in, has been described as an "anti-hate satire", and follows a 10-year-old boy in World War II Germany whose imaginary friend is Adolf Hitler. The movie is based on the novel Caging Skies by Christine Leunens.
The star-studded cast also includes Scarlett Johansson, Sam Rockwell, Stephen Merchant, Rebel Wilson, Alfie Allen and rising young Kiwi star Thomasin McKenzie.
Waititi stars as the dictator.
The movie is his first since the celebrated success of his Marvel film Thor: Ragnarok, which pulled in $854million (NZ $1.33 billion) at the worldwide box office.
