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Apparently GOT Alfie Allen aka Theon Greyjoy is also part of the cast.
https://deadline.com/2018/06/stephen-merchant-gestapo-taika-waititi-jojo-rabbit-scarlett-johansson-1202413120/Stephen Merchant To Play Gestapo Agent In Taika Waititis WWII Satire Jojo Rabbit
Brit writer, director and actor Stephen Merchant has joined Taika Waititis starry WWII satire Jojo Rabbit as Gestapo agent Captain Deertz.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BkK8d_yF5ou/?utm_source=ig_embedstephenmerchant Heres me trying to look German for my part in JoJo Rabbit, new satirical comedy from the wonderful
Sometimes making a film feels as exhausting as trying to invade Russia. #JojoRabbit #GrumpyFace
https://twitter.com/RebelWilson/status/1013367958582767617Its so great filming in Czech Republic and shout out to all the kids who play the Hitler Youth in the film - very professional and talented kids x #JoJoRabbit
Taika Waititi reveals more details of his WW2 satire 'Jojo Rabbit' and animation 'Bubbles'
Waititi told Screen at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival that the Fox Searchlight WW2 comedy Jojo Rabbit, which has three weeks of filming left in Prague, is inspired by the great satires of the past like Doctor Strangelove or The Great Dictator.
Theres a message behind it, its very much an anti-war film, its got a real contemporary feel and contemporary sense of humour to it as well.
He added the success of his previous film Thor: Ragnarok helped get Jojo Rabbit off the ground. He wrote the screenplay in 2011.
A lot of people were interested before Thor but Id say definitely because of that film they probably had a bit more faith, he said. Its a dangerous topic, when you say Im making a WW2 film the studios go oh god not another one, but this one is so different, so weird and has this Pythonesque style to it. I think because of all the films Ive made now they really got the tone.
It was something Id been trying to make for a long time, he added. I think this needed a long gestation. After Thor I said I want to make something that Ive written and something smaller.
Jojo Rabbit follows a young boy (Roman Griffin) raised in a Hitler Youth camp who questions his patriotism when he realises his mother (Scarlett Johansson) is hiding a young Jewish girl (Thomasin McKenzie). Waititi plays his imaginary best friend, a sympathetic version of Hitler. Sam Rockwell plays the Nazi captain of the kids youth camp.
On his role as the imaginary Hitler, Waititi said: Im not playing Hitler, Im playing a weird imaginary character whos a goofball. Its more of version of me who happens to have a moustache. Im doing the accent, but I didnt do much research!
Waititi is producing Jojo Rabbit with Carthew Neal and Chelsea Winstanley. Kevan Van Thompson is the executive producer.
Rebel Wilson said that the "movie won't come out until next year".I wonder when we can expect this to release? Not enough time for post-production for a Fall 2018 Oscar-bait release, but I imagine the studio would want as many eyeballs to see this given the talent behind it. Burying it in January or February would be a shame.
Alright. So let us say the movie comes out in the beginning of 2019, then a trailer could drop around October/November right? I'm not expecting the movie to have much in terms of special effects so the post production shouldn't take that long i'm guessing...Really depends on its release. For a film of this size, you don't usually release a trailer too far out.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BlgMLVchIf_/?taken-by=s.a.mckenzieIts a #jojorabbit wrap! (JJRW.) Shooting, that is. The funs just ramping up for the post-production team. This film is going to be astonishing, heartbreaking & heart-making. Just saying. Oh yeah - & side-splitting. Big congrats, big thanks @taikawaititi & all the wonderful team. @thomasin.mckenzie @mirandaharcourt & I gave this noble dude, producer @carthew an action hero portrait by a Prague street artist we saw on #charlesbridge. Go forth. Produce!
He could just mean sometime in 2019, not necessarily Fall 2019.1 year? Why will it take so long to come out?
It's not like it's a big budget type of movie that needs a ton of post-production. I thought it would be out in a few months. Is he working already on "Bubbles" at the same time or is he going to join another project very soon? Seems odd that it would take that long to finish the movie.
What is it like playing Hitler?
- It's embarrassing. No-one wants to do it but sometimes you just have to. I wrote that character... the character is an imaginary friend so he is very different to the real guy. He is a bit more my personality i guess in the shape of a really horrible person and for me was... the film needed a character like this and when you see it you'll understand why. But he is more of a kind of comic relief character who really knows nothing, the character is an idiot, he is the figment of this 10 year old boy imagination so ultimately he can only know what a 10 year old knows. Imagine me knowing only what a 10 year old knows as oppose to knowing what a 15 year old knows.