Taika Waititi’s comments to The A.V. Club seem to highlight an aspect of making Thor: Ragnarok that’s somewhat harder than a movie like Captain America: Civil War.
The movie needs to be a little weirder and make an effort to reflect that inherent weirdness.
By contrast, Ragnarok is a story that will include aliens, demi-gods, mutated human beings, and even a dash of magic when Benedict Cumberbatch’s Stephen Strange shows up for his cameo in the film.
Civil War featured some outlandish concepts like supersoldiers and teenagers with spider-like abilities, but at the end of the day, the film was still a political thriller with real world inspiration.