Speaker 1: You're listening to playback a Variety podcast. I'm your host,
Speaker 1: Variety Awards Editor Chris Tapley. We took a few weeks
Speaker 1: off in the wake of this year's monumental Oscar's outcome,
Speaker 1: and I don't think that's a hyperbolic thing to say.
Speaker 1: It was quite a moment one that I'm sure will
Speaker 1: be unpacking more and more as we grew up for
Speaker 1: another Awards season in the fall. But for now we've
Speaker 1: got the summer movie season ahead of us. It more
Speaker 1: or less kicks off today with Marvel's Guardians of the
Speaker 1: Galaxy Volume two, which is, you know, fun. If you
Speaker 1: enjoyed the first one, I'm sure you'll dig this one.
Speaker 1: And uh, you know, speaking of which, it seems like
Speaker 1: it's going to be a typically franchise heavy summer. There's
Speaker 1: another Spider Man, and other Transformers and other Pirates of
Speaker 1: the Caribbean, Wonder Woman, all of the I p s
Speaker 1: are out in force, all of the stuff that does
Speaker 1: a really good job of selling toys and book bags
Speaker 1: and whatnot. As I like to say, I'll probably be
Speaker 1: sitting in a theater watching the new Alien film as
Speaker 1: you listen to this, and uh, you know, you're not
Speaker 1: limited to that. For something entirely different, There's a ghost
Speaker 1: story from David Lowry new film with Casey Affleck that's fantastic.
Speaker 1: Edgar Wright has a new film that everyone's loving, Baby Driver,
Speaker 1: and Big Sun Dance Hit The Big Sick from kuma
Speaker 1: Io Nan Johnny from Silicon Valley, and my guest today
Speaker 1: has a new film as well. His name is Guy
Speaker 1: Ritchie and he's sitting right here, sir. Thank you for
Speaker 1: coming on the show today. I appreciate it. Thank you.
Speaker 1: Chris Films called King Arthur Legend of the Sword with
Speaker 1: Charlie Huntum and Jude law Uh. It's interesting too to
Speaker 1: me because I mentioned all of those brands a moment ago,
Speaker 1: and King Arthur is kind of the original brand in
Speaker 1: some ways. I mean, there's been like countless movies and
Speaker 1: TV shows, and Disney even took a crack at it.
Speaker 1: And it's a well known legend, you know. So my
Speaker 1: question is I'm curious, knowing that it was such well
Speaker 1: worn material, what excited you about coming in and telling
Speaker 1: a King Arthur story of your own? I think the
Speaker 1: challenge as much as anything else. It didn't occur to
Speaker 1: me that it was a dusty or an exciting title. Um.
Speaker 1: I think I liked the idea. I was inspired by
Speaker 1: the Boorman movie Excalibur. I don't think it's been as
Speaker 1: many incarnations as you think actually about the legend of
Speaker 1: King Arthur. But nevertheless, it seems like a familiar monica.
Speaker 1: And to me, I fancied the challenge of bit like
Speaker 1: Sherlock Holmes, for all, familiar with that. I think I
Speaker 1: could do something with that. And I was familiar an
Speaker 1: excited bar I or many components in the Autherian legend,
Speaker 1: and it was the challenge, can I go into the
Speaker 1: epic fantasy genre and create something that feels different and fresh? Um?
Speaker 1: And that was my mandate, um, to somehow create a
Speaker 1: new voice in that. Yeah, it's a It's interesting because
Speaker 1: I was a little surprised, and although I shouldn't have been,
Speaker 1: because you've never been one to like anonymously direct your films.
Speaker 1: There's a definitive signature to your work, and so you
Speaker 1: know this, for lack of a better description, I mean
Speaker 1: it kind of it's like a bloke mobster movie in
Speaker 1: the King Arthur world and very much your aesthetic. And
Speaker 1: so I'm curious if, like, was there ever a moment
Speaker 1: where you thought this aesthetic that you wanted to apply
Speaker 1: your trademark, that it might not fit the material. Yes,
Speaker 1: is the elnse to? That was my principal concern is
Speaker 1: that could I would it translate my vision, if you will?
Speaker 1: Or what would it congest the experience? Um? And my
Speaker 1: that was my principal concern. So two weeks into filming,
Speaker 1: your ask tends to go a bit where you start thinking.
Speaker 1: And it's on every movie I've ever made, and I
Speaker 1: think it's a sort of necessary and healthy, but nevertheless
Speaker 1: an unpleasant experience. For two weeks you doubt yourself enormously. Um.
Speaker 1: And then somehow you rise out the ashes of that
Speaker 1: and the film then reveals itself. And my job is
Speaker 1: to steer the head of that tiger and to find
Speaker 1: a tone and then try and be consistent with that
Speaker 1: town and then relax and enjoy it. And the more
Speaker 1: you sort of relax and enjoy it, than the more
Speaker 1: that voice can make itself clear. Um. So as we
Speaker 1: sort of thundered along, I felt as though it had
Speaker 1: its own identity that felt fresh, um, and I became
Speaker 1: more and more confident with it. If you will, is it?
Speaker 1: I mean you're you're very well taken care of and
Speaker 1: set up over at Warner Brothers. But still, was this
Speaker 1: a vision you had to fight for? When was there
Speaker 1: anyone that felt like, I would like this to maybe
Speaker 1: be a little more about the book. Not really, I
Speaker 1: mean I was saying this earlier. I've never really had
Speaker 1: a fight with the studio because it seems pointless. There
Speaker 1: are so many things that can be answered just asking
Speaker 1: five people if you stick it in front of an audience.
Speaker 1: So a certain point, I wanted to not make my
Speaker 1: signature so obvious on the vision, if you will, are
Speaker 1: quite fancied becoming more anonymous. But as soon as we
Speaker 1: stuck it in front of a room for the five people,
Speaker 1: people wanted more of that, that signature that they were
Speaker 1: unfamiliar with who I was, but they were, oh, that stuff,
Speaker 1: we really like that stuff. Can we have more of
Speaker 1: that stuff? And that was the stuff that spoke to him. So,
Speaker 1: I mean, I had my arsenal full of all those
Speaker 1: sort of shenanigans, which I I filmed anyway, and I
Speaker 1: truncated the three and a half hour moving down to
Speaker 1: two hours. Um, so me and the studio were all
Speaker 1: on the same page because it was obvious what people wanted, um,
Speaker 1: and I sort of needed people to confirm that that's
Speaker 1: what they wanted. UM, so we were all on board.
Speaker 1: What do you think about just the test screening process
Speaker 1: in general? Is there something that I'm not opposed to it? Actually? Um,
Speaker 1: I would I wouldn't. I certain wouldn't it as much
Speaker 1: as people do do it. It's allo expensive to do
Speaker 1: it too, by the way, UM, and it's unnecessary to
Speaker 1: do it that much. I understand why some people are
Speaker 1: opposed to it. Sometimes it's a good way of solving
Speaker 1: an argument and being sure about what you're doing is
Speaker 1: the right thing to do this? You know, I'll put
Speaker 1: some stuck in it, but not terrible amount. But it's
Speaker 1: not like a painful thing for you. An It's well,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what I'd rather do it then than now.
Speaker 1: I want to be found out before I'm found out. Uh.
Speaker 1: I don't want to give too much away, but the
Speaker 1: opening scene of this film is like positively epic, and
Speaker 1: it kind of hints at I mean, it's like Lord
Speaker 1: of the Rings epic, and it hints at this overall
Speaker 1: universe really that it makes you feel like there's a
Speaker 1: lot of different ways you could go and telling stories
Speaker 1: in this world. So just out of curiosity, I mean
Speaker 1: you've certainly bounced around within a franchise before with the
Speaker 1: Sherlock Holmes films. Is this the world you want to
Speaker 1: come back to? Would you want to tell more stories
Speaker 1: in King Arthur? I mean you set it up certainly, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean there. I don't think it's a film I've
Speaker 1: made that I never wanted to come back and make
Speaker 1: another one. UM, this particularly in part because it's an
Speaker 1: enormous world, and you put a lot of effort into
Speaker 1: creating these worlds, and that's really the lie and share
Speaker 1: of the effort is creating the world. And I thought
Speaker 1: this movie to take a year and a half and
Speaker 1: here I am three years later. So after you put
Speaker 1: that much effort in, you go, I'll go back again.
Speaker 1: I love Charlie. Charlie Huntum was an absolute pleasure to
Speaker 1: work with. UM would not be cautious about jumping back
Speaker 1: into the lines. Then with him, the process of making
Speaker 1: movies I adore, and in particular this one great fun,
Speaker 1: creatively challenging. UM. Yeah, I would, I would go back.
Speaker 1: What what do you think made it go from one
Speaker 1: and a half years to three years there was in
Speaker 1: light of what you were saying earlier, you are in
Speaker 1: such a congested market, trying to get a weekend in
Speaker 1: this market an unbranded product because in the in the
Speaker 1: end it is and arguably the branker sometimes hurt you,
Speaker 1: um in this case. But we had to wait a
Speaker 1: year for one for the right we can't that wasn't
Speaker 1: didn't have anyone else on it. You've got guardians a
Speaker 1: week before. So it's still quite an unpleasant um position
Speaker 1: to take. But a year ago there were no positions, UM,
Speaker 1: and we came a bit unstuck on man from Uncle
Speaker 1: under the Summer a couple of years ago, UM, which
Speaker 1: I don't think we went at the right time. UM.
Speaker 1: And you're you're cautious about when you come out. You know,
Speaker 1: these things cost money to make and you need to
Speaker 1: make your money back. So we had to wait a year.
Speaker 1: So in that year, I tink it around with the
Speaker 1: visual effects from another year, um, which is obviously in
Speaker 1: hindsight is and the year's worth of extra visual effects.
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you that makes a difference. It's funny
Speaker 1: what people will put up with, you know. Uh. So
Speaker 1: we did that and that was really it. I suppose
Speaker 1: I sort of wrapped this wall. You'll you'll rinse it
Speaker 1: out as long as you can until you know when
Speaker 1: your date is you'll you'll leave the cut loose um
Speaker 1: so you can go in and tinker, go away, come back,
Speaker 1: go away, come back. Well while lock it until you
Speaker 1: know you have to lock it? Do you get yourself
Speaker 1: involved deeply at all? Just with visual marketing posters? Things
Speaker 1: like they're like, how how much do you get involved
Speaker 1: in that kind of stuff? Quite a lot, very good,
Speaker 1: the studio coming to you, getting their input. It's a
Speaker 1: very much a two way street. They're they're very they're pros,
Speaker 1: you know, and they they are interested in the filmmakers version,
Speaker 1: and I've never witnessed and a thing to contradict that
Speaker 1: they're sympathetic to filmmakers. There's Warner Brothers in particular, and
Speaker 1: so they do everything they do, they sort of flag
Speaker 1: past you and every not. But the thing is is
Speaker 1: that if that's what you do day in day out,
Speaker 1: it's hard to remain fresh, you remain creative, but to
Speaker 1: actually create something where it's an interesting campaign, it's very
Speaker 1: hard to do. And sort of spot for this Last Night,
Speaker 1: which comedy Central cobbled up. It's quite funny, is that
Speaker 1: Comedy Central. What's it called? It's called It's called something,
Speaker 1: isn't it? Arvant? Can you rememban what's called? It's called something? Anyway?
Speaker 1: And it's Judelore and Charlie Annam taking the mickey out
Speaker 1: one another saying, um, you know King Arthur was justin
Speaker 1: very King, and Charlie Annam says, you know, go cause
Speaker 1: into some form of contradiction anyway. So they contradict each
Speaker 1: other all through it, and I got to telling it's
Speaker 1: a nice tone and Tony is everything, because if you
Speaker 1: get the tone of that, you get the tone of
Speaker 1: the movie. And in a way, do we care about
Speaker 1: three elephants in a trailer? I'm not sure if I do.
Speaker 1: What I care more about is what's a tonality of
Speaker 1: the people that made the movie? And if I can,
Speaker 1: if that's on my frequency, they're on my frequency, I'll
Speaker 1: go and see it because I get the tone. So
Speaker 1: it's a combination I suppose of I want to see
Speaker 1: some escapism. I want to launch myself into a world
Speaker 1: that's fantastic in one of the that means that you
Speaker 1: and within that, what was it? What was it was
Speaker 1: it called Throne Shade. Throne Shade anyway, it's funny. So
Speaker 1: within that, if you can dial into the tone, then
Speaker 1: you go, right, they got they got a few quid,
Speaker 1: they spent a bit of money throwing a foot elephant,
Speaker 1: and they're going to be that's the tone, right, And
Speaker 1: I to juxtaposition those tones because it's a big fantasy thing, right,
Speaker 1: and then you've got that sort of cheeky, chappy nonsense
Speaker 1: going on the side. It feels like a fresh tone
Speaker 1: man to me. Um, I think so I captured that
Speaker 1: in that little spot, which must have cost all of
Speaker 1: interesting well. Yeah, and just regarding tone, also identity, I
Speaker 1: mean the identity of the film. Getting that across and
Speaker 1: the visuals is always a challenge for these departments. And uh,
Speaker 1: I felt like in the posters and stuff for this
Speaker 1: when you can see this is this is gonna be
Speaker 1: a guy Ritchie King Arthur film, you know, like you
Speaker 1: feel that that identity and these character posters and things
Speaker 1: like that. So that's why I ask, like, what kind
Speaker 1: of involvement you have? You know, Yeah, they're they're they're
Speaker 1: smart those cause it's interesting, hey, you say, because I'm
Speaker 1: too a copy objective. Now we're regarding you know, just
Speaker 1: the idea of superhero movies. Uh. I mean, you know, you're,
Speaker 1: like I said, you're set up at Warner Brothers, And
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm just guessing that maybe they've come to
Speaker 1: you for some of these titles in the past that
Speaker 1: they're putting out there in the DC universe and stuff
Speaker 1: like that. But what I'm curious about is you, you know,
Speaker 1: you maintain your own voice throughout your career, and so
Speaker 1: how do you feel about navigating that modern climate of
Speaker 1: all of these superhero movies. Do you feel like you
Speaker 1: might need to play that game at some point? Or like,
Speaker 1: how do you feel about a good question? Actually? And
Speaker 1: if I find a tone that I'll go, oh, I
Speaker 1: like that. Um, I quite fancy doing Suicide Squad two
Speaker 1: because I thought I could do a good job with it. Um,
Speaker 1: so I'm up for I can't do it because I'm
Speaker 1: doing something else, But I'm not. I'm a guy that
Speaker 1: likes to work, so I'm gonna work and I'll work
Speaker 1: with whatever I can to make it work. I am
Speaker 1: not an absolutist about what a genre is, so I'm
Speaker 1: not a non man. I'm a yes man. When it
Speaker 1: comes to making something manifest. That said, I just wanted
Speaker 1: to be interesting. I wanted to feel fresh, I want
Speaker 1: to feel different. I wanted to feel something that is
Speaker 1: worth me taking my fifteen dollar so John to the
Speaker 1: cinema and go that was worth it. That's it, that's it.
Speaker 1: Maybe suicide is quite three. Someone got to I don't
Speaker 1: think they've announced anybody actually now, but I felt as
Speaker 1: I could really do something with that. Uh, David Air,
Speaker 1: do you you guys friends at all? Do you know
Speaker 1: each other? Um? Speaking of not really no Aladdin, we
Speaker 1: talked about Aladdin briefly. Um, I just wanted to venture
Speaker 1: out here a little bit. Aladdin is one of my
Speaker 1: favorite of the Disney animated films, but it's also one
Speaker 1: that from its release was criticized for just like disparaging
Speaker 1: stereotypes of Arabs and and we're in a very sensitive
Speaker 1: climate to that kind of thing right now. So I'm
Speaker 1: just curious if there's something that you get your eye
Speaker 1: on at all with this project. No, no, no, because
Speaker 1: I find bigotry in all of its guys is and
Speaker 1: the PC world often where's the biggest, biggest hat or
Speaker 1: where is it the most proudly unaware of the hat
Speaker 1: that they're wearing. Decency is decency, Humanity is humanity, and
Speaker 1: I think the film will dictate exactly what the tone
Speaker 1: is supposed to be and who's supposed to be in it.
Speaker 1: You just don't want to feel like you're muscled into
Speaker 1: it because you're bullied into it. It will be what
Speaker 1: it will be because it should be what it should be.
Speaker 1: It will have its own authentic voice, and you don't
Speaker 1: want that voice being contaminated by a PC army. How's
Speaker 1: that experience so far? I mean, these guys at Disney,
Speaker 1: they're like printing money by kind of going back to
Speaker 1: the well and reimagining their properties. I mean, I some
Speaker 1: people feel like it's an original. I feel like, if
Speaker 1: you know that you're gonna put something out there and
Speaker 1: it's going to probably make a billion dollars and you
Speaker 1: own the property to begin with, why would you not
Speaker 1: do that? But you know, and I love I mean,
Speaker 1: it's more to it than that. I'm sure there is. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I love Jungle Book, and I really liked Beauty
Speaker 1: and the Beast, and I'm very curious what you're gonna
Speaker 1: do with this because it's not something that I would
Speaker 1: imagine you would be interested in doing. Frankly, doesn't immediately
Speaker 1: sound like something that guy Ritchie would do. I'll have
Speaker 1: five kids. Of course, I know more about kids movies
Speaker 1: than I do about any other movies, and in turn,
Speaker 1: I know more about Disney movies than any other brand
Speaker 1: of movies. So it's a it's a it's a wheelhouse
Speaker 1: of which I'm well familiar. Yeah, and I'm impressed with
Speaker 1: the quality of children's product. I'm not necessarily as the
Speaker 1: children's product is early in the days for me to
Speaker 1: be able to articulate eloquently exactly what direction going in.
Speaker 1: What I do find exciting is it's a musical. They're
Speaker 1: fantastic people to work with. Um going ground there is
Speaker 1: like going into how I imagine sort of Google was
Speaker 1: five years ago. It's a load of very excited people
Speaker 1: that are very enthusiastic, and to me, it feels like
Speaker 1: product in terms of a creative expression is primary. They're creative.
Speaker 1: The fact that's successful is secondary. What is primary is
Speaker 1: And this is my experience in the film business in general.
Speaker 1: I'm always amazed by the lack of twats I meet
Speaker 1: in this game. Um Ivan, who's a colleague of mine,
Speaker 1: who seeing next to next to me over there um
Speaker 1: here and I talked about this endlessly. How often do
Speaker 1: we meet someone that we dislike in this game? It's
Speaker 1: a very short list. I'm not even sure if there's
Speaker 1: anyone on that list in the twenty years I've been
Speaker 1: in this game and in the studio game for the
Speaker 1: last ten years or so. There's no one. I'll tell you,
Speaker 1: there's no one. That's the lions share of people that
Speaker 1: are in this game. Money contaminates it, and money is
Speaker 1: the water. You know, you and I are men of
Speaker 1: the world. We understand why it's a necessary component. But
Speaker 1: the lion share of people that are in this business
Speaker 1: are in it because it's fun and it's creative. And
Speaker 1: we were around there actually this morning. The the enthusiasm,
Speaker 1: it's palpable. I like that environment. Yeah, and and certainly
Speaker 1: not to diminish it with the talk of the money.
Speaker 1: I mean, these movies are pushing the medium. Jungle Book
Speaker 1: obviously pushed the medium considerably. Beauty and the Beast there's
Speaker 1: a lot of interesting stuff going on with effects and
Speaker 1: inserts and stuff in that from what is there anything
Speaker 1: that you have your eye on, say, it's early days
Speaker 1: but you know, to really push this medium with what
Speaker 1: you're going to do and all that. Anything too early,
Speaker 1: too early, Yeah, it is, it's too early. It's just
Speaker 1: I have to tell you, I'm very excited by it,
Speaker 1: you know. And we took this on before Beauty and
Speaker 1: Beauty was like a beast, um and no one could
Speaker 1: have anticipated that. I suppose. Um, it's just exciting. And
Speaker 1: the rumor mill has Will Smith It's name going around.
Speaker 1: I mean, can you have to tell you I'm a
Speaker 1: big fan of Will Smith. I am a big fan
Speaker 1: of Will Smith. I'm a big fan of the industry. Um.
Speaker 1: I think it's inspiring when things are unpredictable. I think,
Speaker 1: judging by your intro there, you probably feel the same way.
Speaker 1: It's nice that the industry shook up a bit, and
Speaker 1: it feels a bit paid by none us at times.
Speaker 1: But it is what it is, and I'm interested in
Speaker 1: a lot of it. I've got a one year at
Speaker 1: at home. Actually, I've been obsessive, compulsively collecting the Disney
Speaker 1: Blue rays. Do you have a favorite of the lineage
Speaker 1: of animated titles? Well, I'm I'm it's quite long, actually,
Speaker 1: and that the films that I've been most impressed by
Speaker 1: in the last ten years of probably kids movies. I'm
Speaker 1: HARKing back a long way, but I Tota Incredibles was
Speaker 1: rather spectacular. Have you seen my Wana? Okay? I think
Speaker 1: the one is a very impressive bit of filmmaking. And
Speaker 1: my kids know, and I've got three young ones. My
Speaker 1: five year old boy, who's like a real boy, knows
Speaker 1: five of those songs off by heart. They're catching, They're catching,
Speaker 1: They're good, They're good. I just like to be surprising,
Speaker 1: impressed by people's work, and I am. And then last
Speaker 1: thing here, we were about a I guess a year
Speaker 1: away from Lockstock into smoking barrels, being twenty years old.
Speaker 1: If you can believe that, I remember seeing that when
Speaker 1: I was it was like a Charlotte, North Carolina art
Speaker 1: house called the Manner. I don't know if it's still there,
Speaker 1: shout out to Charlotte, but it was. It was a
Speaker 1: lightning bolt. I mean, it was clear that there was
Speaker 1: this new, vibrant voice on the scene and it was
Speaker 1: right at the end of you know, an explosion of
Speaker 1: nineties independent filmmaking. Just what do you recall of that time?
Speaker 1: And kind of a cheesy question, but if if you
Speaker 1: went back and spoke to your twenty year younger self.
Speaker 1: What kind of advice might you have for that guy?
Speaker 1: I think everyone's on their own journey, So I'll deal
Speaker 1: with that in a second, because that's an it's an
Speaker 1: interesting question. Um. But looking back now, doesn't that feel
Speaker 1: like an exciting period in cinema? And I'm not sure
Speaker 1: it's being replicated since it feels like we've moved in
Speaker 1: a different direction, um, And it doesn't feel as volatile
Speaker 1: as it did back then. There was a volatility in filmmaking.
Speaker 1: We're also in the filming which just come out from nowhere,
Speaker 1: left field and go how about some of that? And
Speaker 1: you felt it there was again a palpable aggression to
Speaker 1: the expression. And it was a very exciting time for filmmakers.
Speaker 1: I went to film school in so it was like
Speaker 1: a very exciting time to beginning involved in all of that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know it, films became sort of interesting about one
Speaker 1: of a ninety two or ninety four or ninety five
Speaker 1: Tarantinos or led a charge and they just followed lots
Speaker 1: of fresh voices. Can you remember, like, oh, I remember it.
Speaker 1: It was it was a brilliant movie. Help me out here,
Speaker 1: they made two of them. Get Shorty, Get Shorty when Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's such a Get Shorty was such a impressive film,
Speaker 1: and it felt so wild and charming. It had such
Speaker 1: an original spirit to it. But there were so many
Speaker 1: films at that time that had such an original spirit
Speaker 1: to it. They were in a different period. Um, aren't
Speaker 1: we now about if you went back in time and
Speaker 1: spoke to twenty year younger go Ritchie, Yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 1: think you have. There's just no I mean often, are
Speaker 1: you in this game because you want to fully pockets
Speaker 1: full of dough? Or are you in this game because
Speaker 1: you want to be stimulated by creative challenges and you
Speaker 1: want to break new ground or whatever it is? And
Speaker 1: I think it's all of the above. Because if you
Speaker 1: don't keep your truly, if your pockets flush, nothing happens.
Speaker 1: If you get if your pockets become too flush, nothing happen. Pense.
Speaker 1: So there's this ongoing battle between money and creativity, comfort
Speaker 1: and creativity that discomfort creates great and interesting things. And now,
Speaker 1: if I was replaying it, I could probably have played
Speaker 1: my cards more efficiently if I wanted to make more money. Um,
Speaker 1: but I don't think now I would have I would
Speaker 1: like that. I'd play them the way that you play them,
Speaker 1: because it's a bigger picture. The whole thing is a
Speaker 1: bigger picture, and you've got to roll over to the
Speaker 1: fact that it's a bigger picture and keep working. And
Speaker 1: the older I get by the way, I have seen
Speaker 1: people that keep working, and they should start working, or
Speaker 1: at least for a bit. Clearly it's a compulsion, and
Speaker 1: that someone that's just wake him up out of that
Speaker 1: little hypnoses what is it. It's a spell of some description,
Speaker 1: and just because they're better than that. So some people
Speaker 1: didn't slow down, and some people need to speed up.
Speaker 1: But as you grow, your movies grow and your interests change.
Speaker 1: But I do like a man that keeps. I do
Speaker 1: like a chef that keeps going back in the kitchen.
Speaker 1: It's easy to stay out of kitchen and wait for
Speaker 1: the perfect project. I would rather take the imperfect project
Speaker 1: and fashion it into something that is exhilarating in my
Speaker 1: I mean, I had to, I gotta tell you, I
Speaker 1: like my movies. I go I pretty much forget that
Speaker 1: I made the movie after I've made it, and I
Speaker 1: end up watching them on TV. And you know, I'm
Speaker 1: sitting there having a beer and what I got my
Speaker 1: feet up and one of my movies comes on, Drift Out,
Speaker 1: Go for a pee, come back, and then oh no,
Speaker 1: that's fun. And then I mean for like fifteen minutes,
Speaker 1: and I have absolutely no recollection that I had anything
Speaker 1: to do with it at all. And if someone walked in,
Speaker 1: what you watch your own movies, sport guy, I'll go,
Speaker 1: oh did I make it? Um? I'm sure I'm going
Speaker 1: with that. But anyway, that's a yeah. Do you want
Speaker 1: to scale back at all? You've been working on a
Speaker 1: bigger canvas lately with some of these films. Do you
Speaker 1: want to scale back and go smaller like in the
Speaker 1: fancy bit of TV? Yeah? I do. I'm writing a
Speaker 1: series at the moment um which I'm enjoying enormously, which
Speaker 1: is sort of reminiscent of my earlier career. Um, and
Speaker 1: I'm really enjoying that. I'm sure people would like to know,
Speaker 1: actually if we if we will go to Sherlock Colms three. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean there's like I said, there isn't that movie
Speaker 1: that I've made that I didn't want to make a
Speaker 1: sequel to. So I think if the stars a line,
Speaker 1: then we'll go back to work but I'll tell you
Speaker 1: it's quiet. You're trying to line them stars. I'm sure, yeah, indeed.
Speaker 1: Well again, the movie is King Arthur Legend of the Sword.
Speaker 1: It is twelve. That's why I looked over and asked twelve.
Speaker 1: But you'll can see it on the fourteenth too, if
Speaker 1: you want, uh go check it out. And Guy Richie,
Speaker 1: thanks for coming on my show man. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much. Why is the water dropped it?
Speaker 1: Why does the sword reveal itself? Now? Are you worried?
Speaker 1: Chriss somewhat? As you healthy, I've not had any power
Speaker 1: or any desire to achieve it. M. That's all the
Speaker 1: fuss is about. Don't worry, Girst soon understand what all
Speaker 1: the fusses about. Be scared? I think I can manage.
Speaker 1: He shouldn't be scared. Never it takes to hunt him,
Speaker 1: do so I go down to follow him. If he
Speaker 1: goes down to follow him, you want him to think
Speaker 1: by giving something you can think about. You wanted the property.
Speaker 1: This is your proxy, the man who puts for from
Speaker 1: start the whole nor phone to take