Thank God for Chris Hemsworth, whose from-home promo tour for his new Netflix movie, Extraction, has given us poor entertainment journalists something to write about, like how many hammers he’s taken from Marvel sets. While his new movie has nothing to do with Marvel, the Thor actor obviously can’t escape talking about the MCU and something he said recently has us impatient for the fourth Thor movie to hit theaters.

While speaking to the Philadelphia Inquirer, he said that the script for Thor: Love and Thunder blew him away. “It’s one of the best scripts I’ve read in years,” he explained. “It’s Taika at his most extreme, and at his best. If the version I read is the one we get running with, it’s going to be pretty insane.”

The keyword there is “if.” Scripts go through rewrites all the time. Just after the Oscars, Taika Waititi explained to Variety that just due to the nature of how these films are made, storylines that appear in initial drafts might not be in the final version and so, for example, Jane Foster having cancer may not make the final cut:

“[The Mighty Thor] comics run was a big inspiration, and was an influence on the first few drafts. But at Marvel, we always change everything. I could say one thing right now, and in two years, it will be the complete opposite — or that thing won’t exist. We continue writing even in post-production.”

A certain contingent of fandom seems to freak out every single time they hear rumors of script changes or reports that a movie is undergoing reshoots or pickups, believing it means the movie is awful. But this is a normal process when it comes to shooting movies, especially for big-budget productions. It’s extremely rare that extensive reshoots are required because a film is so bad it needs to be completely redone, simply because of the number of people overseeing the process. If a production gets that far in with a film that unworkable, someone or a few someones were asleep at the wheel. Reshoots, 9.9 out of 10 times, simply mean they’re making the film better, strengthening storylines, and pickups are simply fleshing out connective tissue. Same with re-recording audio during ADR. It’s common. All movies need them, especially the blockbusters and it’s all in the service of making a film better. There were, for example, major reshoots and script changes for Thor: Ragnarok based on feedback from early audience test screenings that required huge character and story changes. They worked. The changes made Ragnarok the best-received Thor movie and one of the best-received Marvel movies, period, thanks to the cast chemistry and zany humor of Waititi.

Waititi credited the studio’s demanding expectation of quality with its success, saying, “I think that’s why they do good work. They’re relentless in their pursuit of just a good movie.”

Hemsworth believes their pursuit of a good movie is what will bring people back to theaters after shelter-at-home and quarantine orders are lifted. He and interviewer Gary Thompson were talking about the strangeness of our current scenario and whether or not Marvel, after years of criticism superhero movies were killing off other movies, might be the very studio to save the theater experience. While the Aussie actor hears and agrees with the concerns, to an extent, he also acknowledges there’s a reason the big spectacle movies are what draw audiences: