Jojo Rabbit Starring Taika Waititi As Hitler Will Open In October

‘Jojo Rabbit’, Starring Taika Waititi As Hitler, Will Open In October

By Chris Evangelista/May 13, 2019 10:18 am EST

Jojo Rabbit // In Theaters October 18, 2019 pic.twitter.com/f3Xzp07rSd

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Jojo Rabbit follows a “lonely German boy (Roman Griffin Davis) whose world view is turned upside down when he discovers his single mother, (Scarlett Johansson), is hiding a young girl (Thomasin McKenzie) in their attic. Aided only by his idiotic imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler (Taika Waititi), Jojo must confront his naive patriotism.” Alfie Allen and Stephen Merchant also star.

Not only does an October release date set Jojo Rabbit up for the awards season conversation, it implies the movie will be part of festival season as well. You can all but bet the film will play at TIFF in September.

This is one of our most anticipated movies of the year, and I’m particularly excited that Waititi immediately followed up Thor: Ragnarok with something like this. More often than not, it seems like the indie directors who get swallowed up by the Marvel machine end up not making other films outside the MCU for quite some time. Waititi is also expected to direct the live-action Akira movie currently in development.