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The Empire Film Podcast

#74: John Cleese, Jeff Wadlow - August 16, 2013

The Empire Film Podcast

Bauer Media

Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2013

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

As well as chatting with the comedy hero that is John Cleese, this bumper-sized edition boasts a lot more to look forward to. Get ready to hear the team talk comedy sketches that deserve a chance on the big screen, the further casting announcements from the Expendables 3 camp, Twitter users to follow, Elysium, Kick-Ass 2 - which explains our interview with the director, Jeff Wadlow - not forgetting 2 Guns, Planes itself and the greatest character introductions in cinema's history. Also: random trivia - and lots of it.

Transcript

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0:00.0

On the Emperor podcast this week, kick ass 2 director Jeff Wadlow, Don Tomask and a skin-type

0:18.6

wetsuit to enter the pod booth we insist upon all our guests doing that, by the way,

0:22.4

legendary ex-Python, ex-Bazzlefoldy and ex-RT Leech, Mr. John Cleese also drops by, we tackle

0:28.3

two guns and elicium and there's the usual combo of news and nonsense on the only movie

0:32.1

podcast of things Garth Bell should be the new Batman, he's already got the ears, you

0:36.4

see, it's a topical joke. Hello pod, I'm Chris Eud and welcome to the Empire podcast

0:40.3

as ever, I'm joined by three colleagues of such lethal cunning, but because I was running

0:44.0

behind this morning in terms of writing the script, I didn't get a chance to write my

0:46.5

usual long torturous intros, so here's Helen Ahara, she's geeky, here's Phil T7 and

0:52.0

he likes art films, and here's Ali Plum, he's got hair, fantastic, so guys, three colleagues

0:57.0

of such lethal cunning that... Yeah, but Sean Conning never finishes that line in

1:01.6

the Island Jones and the Last Crusade, which is what I'm referring to. Oh, it's still

1:05.1

interesting, he says, three challenges of such lethal cunning, and then he never finishes

1:09.2

the sentence, and you're going, let's watch, Sean! No, I'm doubly untender hooks, I need

1:16.2

to know that what. All right, well, if anyone can think of a new intro for you guys, that

1:21.3

will be Grant, that's Helen Ahara, Liz is Phil T7, hello Phil, hi Chris, how are you?

1:24.5

Very well. Good, good, good, and Ali, how are you?

1:26.5

Ah well, hello. Excellent, excellent, and now the formalities are out of the way, time

1:31.0

to pop on with your questions, you've sent in some belters this week, I like this first

1:34.8

one, this is a good one, Helen, perhaps you could give this in context, but it is from

1:37.6

at BrideSpark, who asks, what order would you, in capital letters, put all the Star Trek

1:42.7

films in including Galaxy Quest? Now, this comes from a big Star Trek convention that took

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