‘Thor: Ragnarok’ End Credits: Director Reveals Different Scene Was Filmed

The post-credits scene “Thor: Ragnarok” was almost a very different sequence. The Grandmaster wasn’t so confident in an alternate version.

The final cut of the Marvel film ends with the Grandmaster (Jeff Goldblum) stumbling out of some sort of container. He congratulates the gladiators on a successful rebellion and says he was happy to play the role of the oppressor so they could have a good old-fashioned uprising. He declares the conflict a tie, but the Grandmaster was running away scared in an alternate end credits scene.

Director Taika Waititi told Collider that a different take featured Grandmaster and his minion Topaz (Rachel House) hopping onto the Asgardian refugee ship.

“That could be on the DVD in the deleted scenes,” Waititi explained. “Those two in the crowd of the Asgardians and he pushes through and goes, ‘I’ve never heard of this Earth place but… We got to keep a low profile.’ And they kind of put these blankets over their heads and disband into the crowd.”

So why didn’t both end up in “Thor: Ragnarok”? It seems Waititi wasn’t trying to pull a “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2,” which had five scenes throughout the end credits. The director instead wanted to keep it short and sweet.

While the scene was a nice laugh before leaving the theater, it wasn’t an important clip. Marvel’s post-credits scenes are usually either jokes or a teaser for the next movie. While the Goldblum scene was the former, Waititi also had the latter in the mid-credits scene.

As previously reported, Kevin Feige, head of Marvel Studios, confirmed that the huge vessel that Thor (Chris Hemsworth) and Loki (Tom Hiddleston) see after Asgard’s destruction is Thanos’ (Josh Brolin) spaceship. The villain is looking for the Infinity Stones, and Loki grabbed the Tesseract before his home planet was blown up. That’s a pretty good indicator of how “Avengers: Infinity War” will start.