Lana Gay: You're listening to Hello Movies, a podcast to get you
Lana Gay: off the couch and into the theater. I'm Lana Gay.
Lana Gay: Coming up, we talked to Jake Kasdan, the director of
Lana Gay: Jumanji: The Next Level.
Prof. Shelly O.: Where's the jungle? This is a whole new thing. Nobody told us
Prof. Shelly O.: we had to do a whole new thing.
Lana Gay: We get a closeup look at the star- studded movie
Lana Gay: Bombshell, about the scandal around Roger Ailes at Fox News.
Gretchen C.: Someone has to speak up. Someone has to get masked.
Lana Gay: Plus we've got Star Wars trivia, a look at why
Lana Gay: people go to the movies on Christmas and a chat
Lana Gay: with Tanner Zipchen of the Cineplex Pre Show about upcoming movies.
Speaker 4: Make it short and spicy and if the main character
Speaker 4: is a girl, make sure she's married by the end.
Lana Gay: It's time to do a little listening before watching. Let's
Lana Gay: get started.
Ruby Roundhouse: We have some issues here. The game is busted.
Franklin Finbar: It was a game. I'm not it. I'm going to be it.
Speaker 7: Welcome to Jumanji.
Lana Gay: The next movie in the Jumanji franchise, Jumanji: The Next
Lana Gay: Level, hits theaters December 13. The movie reunites stars Dwayne "
Lana Gay: The Rock" Johnson, Karen Gillan, Jack Black and Kevin Hart
Lana Gay: and then mixes things up by adding Awkwafina, Danny Glover
Lana Gay: and Danny DeVito. It's co- written and directed by Jake
Lana Gay: Kasdan who sat down with Cineplex Magazine's Ingrid Randoja to
Lana Gay: talk about the movie.
Ingrid Randoja: Hi Jake. Thanks so much for taking time to talk
Ingrid Randoja: to us.
Jake Kasdan: Yeah, good to be here.
Ingrid Randoja: First of all, I really loved the first film. I thought it was so much fun.
Ingrid Randoja: It felt like Breakfast Club meets Romancing the Stone.
Jake Kasdan: Oh, that's a great ... I love that. That's right in
Jake Kasdan: the zone of the things we were going for us. That's
Jake Kasdan: great to hear.
Ingrid Randoja: Awesome, and so tell me, you're coming up with an
Ingrid Randoja: idea for a sequel. How do you top that or
Ingrid Randoja: what do you think? What do I need to bring to make the second movie
Ingrid Randoja: work and have that same energy as the first film?
Jake Kasdan: We wanted to make sure that we weren't just repeating
Jake Kasdan: ourselves. We really wanted to make sure that it could
Jake Kasdan: stand up and be its own thing, that we weren't
Jake Kasdan: just duplicating and we wanted to expand their world a
Jake Kasdan: little bit and bring in some new people. And that was
Jake Kasdan: the road that led us to the characters that are
Jake Kasdan: played by Danny DeVito and Danny Glover. And the thought
Jake Kasdan: of introducing them into our story was really what led
Jake Kasdan: us all up and got us excited.
Ingrid Randoja: The beauty of the film is you have the actors playing against type because they
Ingrid Randoja: have teenagers that are stuck in their body. So that's
Ingrid Randoja: so awesomely fun for actors because they get to do
Ingrid Randoja: opposite of what they are. It must have been fun
Ingrid Randoja: to direct that and to trust them to go over
Ingrid Randoja: there. Tell me a bit about that.
Jake Kasdan: Yeah, that that part of it is a blast and is really the
Jake Kasdan: central idea in these movies to me. And the big
Jake Kasdan: idea with one has to do with the movie stars
Jake Kasdan: playing these characters that are completely against their ordinary personas.
Jake Kasdan: And I happened, luckily, to find just the perfect cast
Jake Kasdan: for that on the first movie. And they've extended that
Jake Kasdan: in new directions that are just as much fun and
Jake Kasdan: just as much fun to direct in this one as
Jake Kasdan: they were in the first one.
Dr. Smolder B.: What the hell is this? Would you look at me? Now
Dr. Smolder B.: I haven't looked like this since-
Franklin Finbar: Never. You look like this never.
Dr. Smolder B.: I think my eyes are a different color.
Franklin Finbar: All of you is a different color.
Ingrid Randoja: So what did Danny and Awkwafina, the two Danny's and Awkwafina bring to the
Ingrid Randoja: energy or the chemistry on set?
Jake Kasdan: They were all three just wonderful additions. But in terms
Jake Kasdan: of the actual filming that was infused with this incredible
Jake Kasdan: new energy by having these two legendary guys that I've
Jake Kasdan: loved and looked up to my entire career, two of
Jake Kasdan: my absolute all time favorites with DeVito and Glover, completely
Jake Kasdan: transformative in terms of what that was like for me,
Jake Kasdan: for the crew that I worked with. And then Awkwafina
Jake Kasdan: on the other side of it was really just this
Jake Kasdan: seamless, perfect addition to this group that the other four,
Jake Kasdan: they've become quite close over the course of these two
Jake Kasdan: movies and the chemistry that you see and what they
Jake Kasdan: put out to the world is absolutely genuine and exactly
Jake Kasdan: what they're like. So they really have a great time
Jake Kasdan: together and Awkwafina just hopped right into that with total
Jake Kasdan: confidence and she is just fantastic. I loved working with her.
Ingrid Randoja: One of the interesting things about this movie is you
Ingrid Randoja: go out of the jungle, you've got different vistas, right?
Ingrid Randoja: There's different places that you go. Where were some of
Ingrid Randoja: the places that you shot?
Jake Kasdan: Yes, that was an exciting part of a sequel. But
Jake Kasdan: this idea that the game is busted, that everything's going
Jake Kasdan: to be different now manifests in a couple of different
Jake Kasdan: ways. And one of them is that everybody's playing different
Jake Kasdan: characters than they were in the first movie. And the other
Jake Kasdan: is that the effect of busting the game has broken
Jake Kasdan: down walls and now we're seeing parts of Jumanji that
Jake Kasdan: we never knew even existed. So we returned to Hawaii
Jake Kasdan: and the jungles that we spent most of the first
Jake Kasdan: movie in. We were outside of Calgary, in the Kananaskis,
Jake Kasdan: the absolutely spectacular mountain range where a lot of people
Jake Kasdan: have gone to shoot. We were in New Mexico in
Jake Kasdan: the desert and then we were in far Southern California,
Jake Kasdan: near the border of Mexico in the Glamis Dunes. We
Jake Kasdan: really go a lot of cool places in this movie.
Ingrid Randoja: Is there a one scene that was really challenging to
Ingrid Randoja: shoot where you said, " Oh boy, I hope we get
Ingrid Randoja: through this. I hope we all survive this"?
Jake Kasdan: Yeah, there was a moment up in Kananaskis where we
Jake Kasdan: were shooting a quite central scene at the end of
Jake Kasdan: the movie. Someone says, " Just keep doing what you're doing
Jake Kasdan: but you should know that there's a storm coming and
Jake Kasdan: there will be 40 to 50 mile per hour winds
Jake Kasdan: and blizzard within a couple of hours. We're not sure when."
Ingrid Randoja: Oh my gosh.
Jake Kasdan: That was the moment where you think, " Are we going
Jake Kasdan: to get through this?" And then it won't be blue
Jake Kasdan: sky again for a week. So we sort of powered
Jake Kasdan: through and got it. That was a moment where we
Jake Kasdan: wondered whether we would make it and the movie gods
Jake Kasdan: smiled on us and we did. The actors rose to
Jake Kasdan: it and we just got what we needed and got down
Jake Kasdan: and about five seconds later the storm hit.
Ingrid Randoja: Oh wow, that's amazing. Do you think you learned about directing
Ingrid Randoja: watching your dad? I know you were on Big Chill
Ingrid Randoja: and Silverado as a little kid when he was making
Ingrid Randoja: those movies, Lawrence Kasdan, but did you watch him and
Ingrid Randoja: did you say, " I want to do this"? When did
Ingrid Randoja: that hit for you?
Jake Kasdan: Yes, absolutely. He's the dominant mentor and teacher in my
Jake Kasdan: life and career and we're very, very close then and
Jake Kasdan: still. And when I was a little kid I got
Jake Kasdan: to see what it was like to make movies and
Jake Kasdan: that obviously made a huge impression.
Ingrid Randoja: What do you want audiences or viewers to feel when they walk
Ingrid Randoja: out of seeing The Next Level?
Jake Kasdan: I feel like the next level is a continuation of
Jake Kasdan: what we started in the first one. But I am
Jake Kasdan: happy to report at the end of this journey as
Jake Kasdan: it's about to blast off another world that I really
Jake Kasdan: do feel like we made a different movie than the
Jake Kasdan: first one. It's a big ride and you laugh a
Jake Kasdan: lot, and I think you'll love the people that you
Jake Kasdan: get to know along the way.
Ingrid Randoja: That's great. That's exactly what kind of movie I want
Ingrid Randoja: to go see.
Jake Kasdan: Well, good. I've got one for you.
Ingrid Randoja: Thanks so much, Jake. I'm a big fan of your
Ingrid Randoja: movies and your dad's movies.
Jake Kasdan: Thank you. And I'll pass it on to him too.
Princess Leia: Help me, Obi- Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope.
Lana Gay: Let's make some connections here. Jake Kasdan's dad, Lawrence, is
Lana Gay: an Oscar- winning screenwriter who co- wrote four Star Wars
Lana Gay: movies. The final chapter in the epic Star Wars movie
Lana Gay: saga is about to hit theaters. So let's take a
Lana Gay: look back all the way to the 1970s to the
Lana Gay: movie nobody thought would be a hit. In fact, the
Lana Gay: British crew working on Star Wars thought it was just
Lana Gay: a kiddie movie. But George Lucas always knew he had
Lana Gay: something special. That said, his original script was massively different
Lana Gay: from what we saw on screen. It was a whole
Lana Gay: lot longer too. When he realized he couldn't make a
Lana Gay: movie that went on for so many hours, he took
Lana Gay: the first third of it out and made that his
Lana Gay: movie. The next two thirds would become the sequels, The
Lana Gay: Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. There were
Lana Gay: a lot of other changes Lucas made along the way,
Lana Gay: which brings us to today's trivia question. I'm going to
Lana Gay: give you four fun facts about creating the very first
Lana Gay: Star Wars movie. Three are true and one is pure
Lana Gay: science fiction. Use the Force to see if you could
Lana Gay: figure out which one. One, Han Solo was going to
Lana Gay: have green skin and gills. Two, Chewbacca's voice was to
Lana Gay: be provided by John Travolta. Three, the dark side of
Lana Gay: the Force was called the Bogan. Four, Jodie Foster was
Lana Gay: going to play Princess Leia. We'll give you the answer
Lana Gay: in a bit.
Kayla Pospisil: I want to convince you that I belong on air,
Kayla Pospisil: Mr. Ailes. I think I'd be freaking phenomenal on your network.
Roger Ailes: I could pluck you out and move you to the
Roger Ailes: front of the line. But I need to know that
Roger Ailes: you're loyal. I need you to find a way to
Roger Ailes: prove it.
Lana Gay: Another big movie coming out this week is Bombshell. It's
Lana Gay: about the sexual harassment scandals at Fox News that brought
Lana Gay: down Roger Ailes. To talk about it we have film
Lana Gay: writer at Sasha Stone. She's written for Variety and the
Lana Gay: Hollywood Reporter and she's the founder and editor of the
Lana Gay: website Awards Daily. Hi Sasha.
Sasha Stone: Hey.
Lana Gay: Can you first tell us the story behind the film Bombshell?
Sasha Stone: Yeah, so Bombshell is produced by Charlize Theron who also
Sasha Stone: plays Megyn Kelly in the movie in an incredibly transformative
Sasha Stone: performance. People won't even recognize her. When I see pictures
Sasha Stone: of her, I think I'm looking at Megyn Kelly and
Sasha Stone: I get them confused. So she wanted to tell the
Sasha Stone: story of what she considers to be a film about
Sasha Stone: the Me Too era, but not necessarily told from the
Sasha Stone: left. It's the idea that the sexual harassment and the
Sasha Stone: culture of harassment and the protest against it can also
Sasha Stone: exist in a conservative environment. That's the thrust of the
Sasha Stone: film. So it's Charlize Theron, it's Margot Robbie and it's
Sasha Stone: Nicole Kidman, and then a huge cast of cameos playing
Sasha Stone: all the people you recognize on Fox News, like Geraldo
Sasha Stone: Rivera. As you're watching it, you'll see all the different
Sasha Stone: people that you recognize with actors dressed up to play them.
Lana Gay: I was going to say because Director Jay Roach, he's part of
Lana Gay: the project and he's known for comedic franchises like Austin
Lana Gay: Powers and Meet the Parents, but also political films like
Lana Gay: Trumbo and Recount. So this is a serious subject matter,
Lana Gay: but it sounds like there are some comedic elements to
Lana Gay: the film.
Sasha Stone: Yeah, if you've ever seen Recount, it's very similar to
Sasha Stone: that. It starts out pretty funny, like Charlize Theron breaks
Sasha Stone: the fourth wall and speaks right to you and it
Sasha Stone: moves really quickly, but then of course it starts to
Sasha Stone: get more and more serious. And by the end, it's
Sasha Stone: become a very serious film about these women who felt
Sasha Stone: victimized by Roger Ailes and by the entire Fox News establishment.
Gretchen C.: The attitude off camera was even worse. You're a man
Gretchen C.: hater, learn to get along with the boys. You're sexy
Gretchen C.: but you're too much work. I have a whole list.
Speaker 15: Will other women come forward?
Lana Gay: It's interesting because you mentioned Charlize Theron breaking the fourth
Lana Gay: wall and it feels like the way they're telling this
Lana Gay: story, which obviously is a very hefty story and talking
Lana Gay: about scandal and assault. It's interesting the actual way that
Lana Gay: they have written the screenplay version of this story.
Sasha Stone: It is and there's a documentary floating around about Roger
Sasha Stone: Ailes and if you've watched that you get, that has
Sasha Stone: a lot more information that I don't think that they
Sasha Stone: felt like they could put in the movie, but it
Sasha Stone: gives you good background information about some of the stuff
Sasha Stone: that the women were going through. But really, this is
Sasha Stone: a movie about Megyn Kelly's arc from going from someone
Sasha Stone: who was faithful to Fox News who really ... all these
Sasha Stone: women really just wanted to be journalists. They weren't in
Sasha Stone: it to be celebrities. They actually believed that they were
Sasha Stone: doing the kind of work that a journalist would do.
Sasha Stone: And so Roger Ailes, he made it a deal with
Sasha Stone: each of them as they came in and Megyn Kelly
Sasha Stone: was one of them early on in her career. And
Sasha Stone: the idea was you do what I want you to
Sasha Stone: do and you do what I want you to do
Sasha Stone: with other men or else, not only are you fired,
Sasha Stone: but I'll ruin your career.
Lana Gay: Horrible.
Sasha Stone: Yeah, and when you watch the Roger Ailes documentary, you'll
Sasha Stone: see a lot of the women who turned him down
Sasha Stone: whose careers were ruined because of that. They're not in
Sasha Stone: this movie Bombshell, but they're out there. And so this
Sasha Stone: is like a success story. It's a story about female
Sasha Stone: strength in the workplace. It's a story about people who
Sasha Stone: are reluctant to come forward because they, Megyn Kelly says
Sasha Stone: throughout, I'm not a feminist. This isn't my fight. But
Sasha Stone: her career is threatened. And the same with Margot, who's
Sasha Stone: the only one who's shown at the time to be
Sasha Stone: coaxed into a sexual predicament with Roger Ailes because she's
Sasha Stone: the young one and the other two have already, he's
Sasha Stone: already moved through them and moved on, but she's the
Sasha Stone: new one coming in and so it's actually her case
Sasha Stone: that ignites this whole thing because they start to see
Sasha Stone: that it's happening to other women and it won't stop
Sasha Stone: until they stop it.
News Reporter: Fox News star and Gretchen Carlson dropped a major bombshell today.
Kayla Pospisil: What is she doing?
Roger Ailes: This could kill Fox News.
Lana Gay: What did you like the most about this movie?
Sasha Stone: Well, I liked the performances, especially Charlize Theron, and by
Sasha Stone: the way, she's really tall. She's like six feet tall
Sasha Stone: or even taller than that. And so her performance as
Sasha Stone: Megyn Kelly is so studied. It's one of those incredible
Sasha Stone: performances where an actor sometimes disappears into the role and
Sasha Stone: you see that a lot with men. You don't see
Sasha Stone: it a lot with women. And this is the second
Sasha Stone: time that she's done it because she did it with
Sasha Stone: Monster where she completely transformed herself and she won an
Sasha Stone: Oscar for that. But I think what I liked about it was that
Sasha Stone: it managed her to talk about the Me Too movement
Sasha Stone: and show the power of a lot of women coming
Sasha Stone: together and backing each other up.
Lana Gay: It's been great to talk to you. Thank you for taking the time.
Lana Gay: We appreciate it.
Sasha Stone: Sure, no problem. I hope you like the movie.
Lana Gay: Earlier in the podcast, we gave you four facts about
Lana Gay: George Lucas's original plans for the first Star Wars movie,
Lana Gay: but only three were true. Did you guess which one
Lana Gay: wasn't? Here they are again. One, Han Solo was going
Lana Gay: to have green skin and gills. Two, Chewbacca's voice was
Lana Gay: to be provided by John Travolta. Three, the dark side
Lana Gay: of the Force was called the Bogan. Four, Jodie Foster
Lana Gay: was going to play Princess Leia. First, Han Solo was
Lana Gay: going to have green skin and gills. Originally, he was
Lana Gay: a tall, green, noseless alien. Also, Luke was going to
Lana Gay: be a 60- year- old general or maybe a dwarf.
Lana Gay: Also, his name was Luke Starkiller. Mark Hamill actually said, "
Lana Gay: I'm Luke Starkiller here to rescue you," to Princess Leia
Lana Gay: in that scene where they first meet and they had
Lana Gay: to dub over that dialogue after they changed his name.
Lana Gay: Jodie Foster as Princess Leia? Sure. They offered it to
Lana Gay: her, but she was already booked on two Disney movies
Lana Gay: and didn't have the time. PS, she's fine with it
Lana Gay: and yes, the dark side of the Force was originally
Lana Gay: called the Bogan. The light side, the Ashla, and thankfully
Lana Gay: that was changed. So no, Chewbacca's voice was never going
Lana Gay: to be provided by John Travolta. Sound designer Ben Burtt
Lana Gay: chose a combination of bears with a dash of walrus
Lana Gay: dog and lion thrown in for Chewie's voice. He toured
Lana Gay: marine land to get inspired and saw a walrus stranded
Lana Gay: at the bottom of a pool that had been emptied
Lana Gay: for cleaning. When it moaned, he knew he found just
Lana Gay: what he'd been missing. A tall, fuzzy star was born.
Lana Gay: Bonus fact, the studio was concerned about Chewbacca's nudity and
Lana Gay: wanted him to wear short. Okay, Star Wars fans, go
Lana Gay: see the final chapter in the Skywalker saga on December
Lana Gay: 20th. I'm betting some of you even have your tickets
Lana Gay: already. If you don't, head on over to cineplex. com
Lana Gay: to get them. ( singing)
Speaker 17: Oh boy.
Lana Gay: Do you like to go to the movies on Christmas
Lana Gay: Day? If you do, you're not alone. Turns out Christmas
Lana Gay: Day is one of the busiest days of the year
Lana Gay: at movie theaters. One reason, there isn't a whole lot
Lana Gay: of other stuff open, so if you don't celebrate Christmas,
Lana Gay: it's something fun to do while everything else is closed.
Lana Gay: If you do, you've probably wrapped up your celebrations by
Lana Gay: the middle of the day and now everybody's going a
Lana Gay: little stir crazy. I get it. One of my personal
Lana Gay: Christmas Day favorites was watching La La Land, which I
Lana Gay: thought was just a perfect holiday movie. Now, back in
Lana Gay: 1947, Paramount Pictures took a big risk and decided to
Lana Gay: open a non- Christmas movie on Christmas Day. It was
Lana Gay: the Road to Rio starring Bing Crosby and Bob Hope
Lana Gay: as two out- of- work musicians named Scott and Hotlips.
Lana Gay: The risk paid off. It was a huge box office
Lana Gay: success and even nabbed itself an Oscar nomination for best
Lana Gay: score. A new tradition was born. Since then, studios had
Lana Gay: been releasing all kinds of movies around the holidays, hoping
Lana Gay: to grab those Christmas crowds and make a play for
Lana Gay: Oscar nominations before the end of the year. So we
Lana Gay: wanted to know what movies have you gone to see
Lana Gay: on Christmas? Maddie told us she and her family went
Lana Gay: to see Lord of the Rings on Christmas Day. Each
Lana Gay: of the three movies, three years in a row.
Gandalf: Legend tells of a ring, created by an ancient evil,
Gandalf: that gave it's wearer the power to enslave the world.
Lana Gay: Christmas- y. Elisa said her family has a running joke
Lana Gay: about how depressing the movies are that they see on
Lana Gay: Christmas, like Les Miserables and Sweeney Todd. " Really heartwarming uplifting
Lana Gay: stories," she says. And MA told us about a study
Lana Gay: in contrast. One year, she went to see Vice about
Lana Gay: former vice president Dick Cheney. MA describes it as being
Lana Gay: about a man with no soul or heart. Perhaps not
Lana Gay: the best thematic choice for Christmas, but the year before
Lana Gay: that her family went for something a little more on
Lana Gay: point, the Post, about the Washington Post's attempts to publish
Lana Gay: classified documents revealing US involvement in the Vietnam War. " That
Lana Gay: was a good movie for a holiday," she says, " People
Lana Gay: behaving honorably." But you know what those two movies have
Lana Gay: in common, they were both about true life events, but
Lana Gay: more importantly, they both scored themselves some major Oscar nominations.
Lana Gay: The Post was up for best actress and best picture
Lana Gay: and Vice was nominated in eight categories, including all the
Lana Gay: big ones. Ask anyone who works at a movie theater
Lana Gay: and they'll tell you that Christmas is a magical time
Lana Gay: of year. People come with their families and perhaps to
Lana Gay: take a break from them. Either way, it gets you
Lana Gay: out of the house and doing something fun. If you
Lana Gay: want to join in on the Christmas movie fun, you've
Lana Gay: got tons of choices and to talk about a few
Lana Gay: of them, here's Tanner Zipchen, host of the Cineplex Pre
Lana Gay: Show. Hey Tanner.
Tanner Zipchen: Oh. Oh, I've just arrived. Hi Lana.
Lana Gay: Nice to see you. Do you go to the movies on
Lana Gay: Christmas Day?
Tanner Zipchen: Well, the thing is, I never leave the theater as
Tanner Zipchen: you know, so do I go to the movies on
Tanner Zipchen: Christmas? I mean, I just happen to be there because I'm always
Tanner Zipchen: there so yes.
Lana Gay: I do enjoy going on Christmas Day. It's actually a
Lana Gay: newer tradition for me.
Tanner Zipchen: Really?
Lana Gay: Yeah. My mom and I started going a few years
Lana Gay: ago and it's really nice. Also, there's no stress really.
Lana Gay: Once you're there, you just hang out. We eat popcorn.
Tanner Zipchen: A good reason to get away from the family that comes
Tanner Zipchen: into town. Like I just got to run out and get a couple
Tanner Zipchen: of things.
Lana Gay: For two-and- a- half hours.
Tanner Zipchen: Exactly.
Lana Gay: Depending on the movie. Well, let's talk about some movies that are hitting theaters
Lana Gay: on Christmas Day. I like the new version of Little Women. Greta
Lana Gay: Gerwig directing this one.
Tanner Zipchen: Yeah, a bit of a reunion too with Saoirse Ronan. In
Tanner Zipchen: Greta's last film, Lady Bird, Saoirse was the star of
Tanner Zipchen: that. She's back in this, along with Emma Watson, Laura
Tanner Zipchen: Dern, Timothée Chalamet, a huge cast, Odenkirk, Bob Odenkirk, Chris Cooper,
Tanner Zipchen: Meryl Streep.
Lana Gay: Meryl.
Tanner Zipchen: Legendary Meryl Streep. Now this of course is not a
Tanner Zipchen: new thing on the big screen. This is the eighth
Tanner Zipchen: time that we've seen this story told for the big
Tanner Zipchen: screen, the first time with this cast, which is very
Tanner Zipchen: exciting. And of course, we're seeing a little bit of
Tanner Zipchen: a time jump here because this film jumps back and
Tanner Zipchen: forth in time. So we're seeing different versions of the
Tanner Zipchen: sisters' lives through adulthood, which is cool. But yeah, everyone's
Tanner Zipchen: excited about the cast here. Especially all those Chalamet fans.
Lana Gay: Do they have a name?
Tanner Zipchen: Chalamites.
Lana Gay: The Chalamites, all right. And for a completely different vibe, there's 1917, co-
Lana Gay: written and directed Sam Mendes.
Speaker 20: You have a brother in the second battalion.
Speaker 21: Yes, sir.
Speaker 20: They're walking into a trap.
Tanner Zipchen: Yeah, actually based on a story or a story fragment
Tanner Zipchen: that Sam's grandfather told him about a messenger during the
Tanner Zipchen: war and he was so inspired by that story. They
Tanner Zipchen: ended up writing this film based on that. But yeah,
Tanner Zipchen: it's set around World War I, two British soldiers at
Tanner Zipchen: the height of the war and they've got to deliver
Tanner Zipchen: a message warning of an ambush and cross into enemy
Tanner Zipchen: territory. And with this comes some amazing massive scenes, these
Tanner Zipchen: long one- shots. Practical effects are absolutely incredible in this.
Tanner Zipchen: A great cast too, like Colin Firth and Benedict Cumberbatch
Tanner Zipchen: in there and critics so far are loving it. One
Tanner Zipchen: of the highest rated films we've seen lately and some
Tanner Zipchen: are even saying it could be better than Dunkirk.
Lana Gay: Well.
Tanner Zipchen: That's a tall ... I mean, come on, Chris Nolan. That's
Tanner Zipchen: a tall order but we'll have to see.
Lana Gay: Indeed. Well, thanks so much, Tanner.
Tanner Zipchen: Thank you.
Lana Gay: And that's a wrap. Thank you so much for joining
Lana Gay: us for our very last episode of 2019. Happy holidays
Lana Gay: and happy new year to all. If you have comments
Lana Gay: or questions about anything you heard on the podcast, let
Lana Gay: us know at hellomovies@ cineplex. com. Hello Movies is brought
Lana Gay: to you by Cineplex Entertainment. Laurie Ulster is the writer
Lana Gay: of our podcast. Colton Eddy is our producer. [ Philip Zivkov 00:22: 48]
Lana Gay: is our sound designer and mixer. Our series consultant is
Lana Gay: Jeff Ulster and our executive producer is Catherine Jheon. I'm
Lana Gay: Lana Gay. Thanks for listening and see you at the movies.