Taika Waititi is making a What We Do in the Shadows sequel

With Thor: Ragnarok doing great guns at box-offices worldwide and getting some of the best reviews of any Marvel movie, you’d think indie filmmaker Taika Waititi would be lost to Hollywood and the Marvel machine forever. It turns out the irreverent New Zealander has other ideas. While on Thor’s gruelling promotional tour Waititi announced he’s planning a return to the low-budget world of What We Do in the Shadows, the hilarious indie vampire mockumentary he made with Flight of the Conchords' Jemaine Clement in 2014.

“The rumor is true,” said Waititi in an interview on the BUILD series. “[Jemaine’s] been hounding me to do this.”

Like the original, the sequel will take the form of a fake documentary, but this time around the crew aren’t following the vampires from the first movie, but their sworn enemies the werewolves. “The movie is called We’re Wolves,” Waititi explained during the interview. “It’s a word play. Americans love word plays. You guys love puns.”

We might have to wait a while to see the film, however, what with Waititi’s burgeoning Hollywood film career and Clement’s recently announced Flight of the Conchords arena tour.

“You aren’t going to see it for seven years,” said Waititi. “We are notoriously terrible at writing together, Jemaine and I. [Our writing] usually takes place over emails, so we’ll email each other one line of dialogue once a month. What We Do in the Shadows took six years to write.”

The Thor: Ragnarok director has some tasty sounding films coming up in the meantime. He’s working on Jojo Rabbit, a film set in Nazi Germany following a Hitler Youth, who’s shocked to discover his mother has been harbouring a Jewish girl in their house – if anyone can make the Nazis funny, it could be Waititi. There’s also the mouthwatering prospect of Waititi’s live-action remake of anime classic Akira.

While that’s all exciting, We’re Wolves is what we’re really jonesing for, so hopefully Waititi and Clement can get writing pronto.