Taika Waititi, director of Thor: Ragnarok, will be playing an imaginary version of Hitler in his next project, a dramedy called Jojo Rabbit that begins filming this spring.
AV Club reports the original log line for the script, which sheds a bit more light, and context, onto the character.
“After being severely hurt by a grenade at Hitler youth camp, a prideful and nationalistic ten-year old boy discovers that his mother is hiding a fifteen year old Jewish girl in their house.” The boy’s imaginary friend is a version of Hitler that is far removed from reality, with Waititi describing him as “goofy” and “charming” while “