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The Empire Film Podcast

#283: Ridley Scott, Denis Villeneuve

The Empire Film Podcast

Bauer Media

Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2017

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

It's a Blade Runner 2049-themed episode this week, as we are joined by directors past and present from the world of replicants, whom we question with the scrutiny of a Voight-Kampff test. Plus, the two-handed pod team ponder which movie John would win in a fight.

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We're going to be playing on the Empire Podcast this week. It's time to ignore your mother

0:17.0

and run with scissors because Blade Runner 2049 is here, Blade Runner, and we have

0:23.3

Denis Villeneuve and Sir Ridley Scott here to talk about it. All this and more on the

0:27.5

only movie podcasts that recently saw an origami reindeer Christmas decoration and wondered

0:33.2

if we might all be replicants. Hello, Pod. I'm Helen O'Hara and I'm afraid that I'm

0:37.8

hosting this week because Chris is just off a flight from New York and is so jet-like

0:41.8

he's actually wearing trousers for once. That means the Winchester's will be keeping

0:46.3

their shirts on and obviously that I tried to write an intro fitting a song about the

0:50.7

Winchester's to the opening number of Hamilton which for the sake of your ears I just decided

0:55.5

not to do but that is not the only theatrical link for this week's episode because this

0:59.8

week we are sponsored by the Fairyman which is the new play on stage at the Gilgurth

1:05.6

Theatre in London. It's written by Jez Butterworth who of course wrote among other things

1:10.4

Spectre in the Bond franchise. It is directed by Sam Mendez so its filmmaking credentials

1:17.5

are super on point and this is a play that has already played to huge critical acclaim

1:22.4

and five star reviews at the Royal Court before opening in the West End where it's been

1:26.2

playing to SoulDot Hises. But there are still tickets. It's opened until the 6th January

1:31.4

2018 you can get tickets from as little as 12 pounds. They do front row day seats at the

1:37.0

box office which if you turn up at 10.30 on the day of you can you can trans your luck and

1:42.9

try and get a ticket. Get the down to the Gilgurth. Anyway joining me this week is a colleague

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