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The Empire Film Podcast

#576 β€” Ben Wheatley

The Empire Film Podcast

Bauer Media

Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.6 β€’ 2.7K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 4 August 2023

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

This week's episode of the Empire Podcast puts the 'Meg' in mega, as Ben Wheatley returns to the podcast to talk about his new film, Meg 2: The Trench. This interview, conducted by Chris Hewitt immediately after our Empire VIP Club screening of the film earlier in the week, is a ton of fin-related fun, with Wheatley talking about how he came to direct a film that is unlike anything else on his filmography, emerging from Spielberg's shadow, and working with The Stath. It all starts around the 55-minute mark. Chris is then joined in the virtual podbooth by James Dyer and Ben Travis to discuss the best band in Star Wars, franchises that run the gamut from five-star to one-star entries, the week's movie news including the possibility of Wonder Woman 3 and Scream VII, and review Meg 2, Joy Ride, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem. Oh, and Ben (Travis, not Wheatley) finally loses his cool. Enjoy.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This week we step up to the trench with Ben Wheatley, director of Meg to the streets.

0:21.8

Or maybe the other way round, plus the usual news and nonsense on the movie podcast that

0:27.7

is cutting back.

0:29.4

And stupid jokes.

0:31.8

Some of you will be relieved to hear.

0:33.6

Hello, pod.

0:34.6

I'm Chris Hewitt.

0:35.6

Welcome to a stupid joke free zone that is this week's Emperor podcast.

0:39.2

We are recording this remotely due to laziness.

0:43.6

Is that a stupid joke?

0:44.6

I don't know.

0:45.6

I don't know.

0:46.6

It's a minefield.

0:47.6

I don't know.

0:48.6

But why we record this remotely, my two colleagues of such leaflecunning Ben Travis.

0:53.0

Hello.

0:54.0

And James Dyer.

0:55.0

Why we remote?

0:56.0

Remind me.

0:57.0

Well, a number of reasons I would say partly the office is closed, but we don't record

1:01.6

any office.

1:02.6

We don't record in the office.

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