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The Empire Film Podcast

#66: Jason Statham, Max Brooks - June 21, 2013

The Empire Film Podcast

Bauer Media

Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2013

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

The one and only acting man mountain that is Jason Statham drops by the Empire Podcast studio this week, as does the man who has scared millions to tears after writing the World War Z - the book, not the film - Max Brooks. As if hearing from those two fascinating fellows wasn't enough, there's also our tribute to the late great James Gandolfini, as well as a discussion of the upcoming Fifty Shades Of Grey adaptation and which tagline is the very best ever written.

Transcript

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0:00.0

On the Opera Podcast this week, we head down to the Winchester and wait for this all

0:17.8

to blow over as Brad Pitt battled zombies and won't we're see? Or said, we also talk

0:22.8

to Max Brooks, author of the book on which the film is based, and try to survive a visit

0:26.3

to the pod booth from none other than to stave himself. All that plus news, views and

0:31.0

reviews on the only movie podcast would offer chase and lead to job right now. You could

0:35.6

just sit in the corner of being nice. I love pod, I'm Chris Tewett and yes, that was

0:38.6

a reference to the apprentice apologies if you don't watch it. Anyway, welcome to the

0:42.5

Empire Podcast. I'm absolutely delighted to welcome, as ever, three colleagues of such

0:46.1

lethal cunning that they made Lord Sugar look like Lord Sweden though. Boom! Joke! Wow!

0:52.8

Was it? Kind of. First up, we have a lady who's strong, confident and never in the bottom

0:57.9

three. It's Helen Ahara. Thank you, I guess. Secondly, we have a resident art house guru, a man

1:03.4

who's business proposal to Lord Sugar is a new restaurant chain called Planet Subtitle.

1:07.6

Today's special steak bella tartar. I love Philip Desemlin, you're right. Hi Chris,

1:13.2

yeah very well, thank you. Last but not least, it's my great pleasure to welcome a new

1:16.4

voice at the pod booth, an Australian voice, a hairy Australian voice. A voice we thought had left

1:21.1

us a bit like Margaret on the apprentice, but with more hair. It's a man he was responsible for

1:25.1

making her fiddy bloggy so it's Luke and sounds so good, relatively speaking. Amongst other things,

1:29.6

it's a dynamo from down under, the ballistic missile for Brisbane, our very own crocodile dandee,

1:35.2

Sam Toy. Hello. Good eye. I'm just leaving a bit of dead air so that I can put some sound effects

1:43.0

in later of like church bells and desolate wind and maybe a cricket chirping or something.

1:47.5

Thank you for thanking me for just like the old days. It's still life would have been here.

1:50.4

Desolate wind. So that would be your sound effect. Sam, you came, your story's quite interesting

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