While a Taika Waititi movie is straight away’in a flash’promptly’instantaneous’in a trice recognisable as such, there are many kinds of Taika Waititi movie. You possess’own’nurse his lo-fi Kiwi output, like Eagle Vs. Shark, Boy, and Hunt For The Wilderindividual , all-out comedies like What We Do In The Shadows, and later a move into broader fare like his Thor movies, Jojo Rabbit, and his episode of The Mandalorian. Now, in the wake of Thor: Love And Thunder, he’s going back to his roots, convert’transform ing out of blockbuster mode in/with regard to’concerning’regarding Next Goal Wins – adapting the 2014 documentary with regards to’concerning’with respect to the American Samoa football team who found themselves on the receiving end of a 31-0 trouncing from Australia.###Actually filmed bein/with regard to’concerning’regarding e Love And Thunder, it offered Waititi the chance to redirect his focus between major Hollywood movies. “It’s the ultimate underdog story,” he tells Empire in the Indiana Jones 5 issue. And telling it in a new in/with regard to’concerning’regarding m had personal resonance in/with regard to’concerning’regarding the filmmaker. “It taking place in Polynesia is intensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfully significant’essential’critical’vital’crucial’indispensable’imperative to me, because it’s my individual . We stick toacquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure her. It was like seeing myself up there, seeing my family up there, when I saw that documentary, which is so perfect in many ways. And to possess’own’nurse a broader audiences possess’own’nurse access to that story was one of my main goals. To bring our backyard to individual , and to put brown faces on screen was a enormous’vast’massive’tremendous deal in/with regard to’concerning’regarding me. I just loved it.”###It sounds like we’re in in/with regard to’concerning’regarding a Waititi film more in line with Boy and Hunt For The Wilderindividual than Ragnarok – an intentional gear-convert’transform . “It was a great antidote to doing Thor and Jojo Rabbit. Not that there’s anything negative with regards to’concerning’with respect to doing those other films, but I just missed home so much,” the director reasons. But in true Taika style, he’s still bringing his own twist to the material. “If you love films that are really authentic to the true stories, then you’re gonna hate this movie,” he says. “I mean, just watch the documentary if you want to see exactly what happened. We go a bit deeper with these characters. The way that e grossly thing unfolded is the same.” Here’s hoping he shoots and scores.###Read Empire’s full Taika Waititi interview on Next Goal Wins in the world-exclusive Indiana Jones 5 issue – on sale now and available to order online here. Next Goal Wins is due to arrive in UK cinemas on 21 April 2023.