Announcing our Summer Schedule!
Beyond the Screenplay
Michael Tucker
4.8 • 631 Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2025
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
We're launching our summer season, "Big Swing Summer" with a new episode releasing every Friday! We'll be taking a look at ambitious movies where the filmmakers reached for the stars and discussing what can be both lost and gained by taking such big swings.
June 13th: Interstellar
June 20th: La La Land
June 27th: A.I. Artificial Intelligence
July 4th: Patreon-Exclusive — Cloud Atlas
July 11th: Romeo + Juliet
July 18th: Pulp Fiction
July 25th: The Fountain
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, listener, Michael here with the whole Beyond the Screenplay team to run down the schedule of our new summer season, Big Swing Summer. |
| 0:13.4 | What are Big Swing movies? |
| 0:14.9 | Movies that aimed high, maybe didn't always hit the target in the bullseye, but are laudable for how ambitious they were. |
| 0:21.6 | We're beginning on June 13th with Interstellar, Christopher Nolan's 2014 film. |
| 0:26.6 | On June 20th, we're talking about La La Land, Damien Chazelle's 2016 film. |
| 0:31.6 | On June 27th, we're talking about AI, Artificial Intelligence, the 2001 Spielberg-ish film. On July 4th, we're talking about |
| 0:40.2 | Cloud Atlas, the Wachowski's 2012 film on July 11th. Romeo plus Juliet, Baz Luhrmann's 1996 version. |
| 0:51.0 | July 18th, Pulp Fiction, which we somehow haven't talked about yet, Tarantino's 1994 classic. |
| 0:58.0 | And then on July 25th, The Fountain, the 2006 Darren Aronofsky film. |
| 1:03.5 | Trisha, what movie are you most excited about from our schedule? |
| 1:07.0 | I'm so glad you asked Michael. |
| 1:08.8 | For me, it definitely has to be Romeo and Juliet. |
| 1:12.6 | Thank you. I got you, Brian. I love that movie. I've seen it a lot of times. It is wild. And I can't wait to just dive into it again. I mean, Baza is just going to be the most all over the place with that movie. |
| 1:28.4 | Yes, 100%. |
| 1:29.9 | Excellent. |
| 1:30.5 | All right. |
| 1:31.0 | Alex, what are you most excited about? |
| 1:33.0 | I am really excited for Cloud Atlas. |
| 1:35.0 | That movie is bananas. |
| 1:38.0 | Also, just like, talk about a big swing in every direction, both in like the production, |
| 1:45.8 | in the choices, in the scope, both in like the production, in the choices, |
| 1:48.8 | in the scope, in the like the way it was funded. |
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