Taika Waititi's Jojo Rabbit Casts Rebel Wilson

Jojo Rabbit

theatre director Taika Waititi has addedPitch Perfectactress Rebel Wilson to the form of his WWII satireJojo hare . Fresh off his triumph onThor : Ragnarok , a loge office blockbuster with $ 854 million grossed worldwide , Waititi will next write , direct and star in a movie about a 10 - year - old Nazi who imagines he is friend with Adolf Hitler . And Waititi himselfwill play the use of notional Hitler .

Of course , before taking on obligation as theater director of an MCU movie , Waititi was a very quirky film maker from New Zealand who became get it on through his work on way-out labor like the seriesFlight of the Conchords , and movies likeWhat We Do In the Shadows . With his Nazi satire , Jojo Rabbit , Waititi give to the form of truly oddball stuff he was doing beforeThor : Ragnarok , an amusing movie that profit from Waititi ’s sensibilities while still stay on a mostly straightforward - advancing comic book film .

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AlreadyWaititi has added Scarlett Johanssonand Sam Rockwell to the cast ofJojo Rabbit , the latterin the use of a Nazi captain(because Rockwell never shies forth from playing creep ) . Now the film has added another central small-arm with the casting of Rebel Wilson , who will play a character named Fraulein Rahm , as reported byDeadline . The character is described as a " brutish " Hitler Youth teacher who , among other affair , separate her pupils that Jewish people are the shape of mythic creatures .

In the story , the as - yet - uncast untried fundamental protagonist conceive the stories told to him by Fraulein Rahm and the other Nazis who assure his existence , and learn Jewish people as less - than - human being . But one mean solar day he discovers the untested Judaic little girl his mother ( Johansson ) has been hide in their home base , and gradually he overcomes what the Nazis have taught him and sees the girl as human . At the same time , the confused untested man converse with his imaginary friend Hitler as he tries to make sense of his earth .