Aneesh Chaganty on Leaving Google to Make ‘Searching’ | The Big Picture (Ep. 519)
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The Ringer
4.4 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2018
⏱️ 34 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, it's Liz Kelly and I'm here to tell you about the awesome stuff we've |
| 0:03.8 | going on at the Ringer. It's Pizza Day on Tuesday this week. We're doing brackets. |
| 0:08.2 | We're talking about pizza in pop culture and our staff is breaking down which is |
| 0:11.4 | definitively the best pizza. Also, we are launching a brand new podcast with |
| 0:16.3 | Ryan Rusillo called Dual Threat. It'll be a weekly podcast focusing on both the |
| 0:20.2 | NFL and coach football. It'll air Wednesdays throughout the football season and |
| 0:24.3 | first episode is being released on Wednesday, August 29th. So read about |
| 0:29.0 | Pizza on Tuesday. Listen to Ryan on Wednesday and check out lots of other |
| 0:32.4 | good stuff on the ringer.com. And we thought like if we could put 90 minutes on |
| 0:39.2 | screen that make you forget that what you're watching is told in a gimmick but |
| 0:43.6 | rather just focus on the story like wouldn't that be a very unique experience? |
| 0:47.1 | That was enough for me to put together a longer pitch back at what |
| 0:50.1 | Sev. Give it back to them. I got approved. Tell my bosses at Google that I quit and |
| 0:53.7 | got on a flight and move back to LA and made a movie for tears. |
| 1:01.7 | I'm Sean Fennesy, Editor and Chief of the Ringer and this is the big picture. |
| 1:05.0 | Conversations show with some of the most interesting filmmakers in the world. |
| 1:08.7 | We live and die by our screens. Every day hours and hours are spent staring into glass. |
| 1:13.7 | The New Thriller searching takes the existential panic of that experience and |
| 1:17.7 | supercharges it into a story about a teenage girl's disappearance and her |
| 1:21.2 | father played by John Cho on a quest to find her. Every frame of the movie happens |
| 1:25.6 | on a computer screen and it's impressive and involving filmmaking. |
| 1:29.0 | The movie's co-writer and director Anish Chaganty has an amazing story of his own. |
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