By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 7, 2019 7:00 pm EST
While the plot details are currently unknown, it likely won’t be a big-budget action film, as Waititi already had to postpone his Akira movie at Warner Bros. in order to focus on Thor. But that doesn’t mean he can’t squeeze one more film under his belt before he heads back to Asgard.
Update: We can now report that the film is called Next Goal Wins, an adaptation of the 2014 documentary of the same name. The original film was directed by Mike Brett and Steve Jamison and follows the National Football Team of American Samoa as they attempt to turn around their disastrous record (they infamously lost 31-0 to Australia in 2001) and qualify for the FIFA World Cup with the help of new Coach Thomas Rongen. Waititi wrote the screenplay with Iain Morris. Our original article continues below.
Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit is set to hit theaters on October 18, 2019, while Thor: Love and Thunder rolls into theaters on November 5, 2021. We can expect the untitled mystery project somewhere in between those two titles, perhaps in late 2020 or early 2021.
