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Cary Fukunaga Takes Over the Bond Franchise, Plus a Live Performance From the Altons | The Watch (Ep. 291)

The Watch

The Ringer

Tv & Film

4.55.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2018

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

The Ringer’s Chris Ryan sits down with GQ staff writer Zach Baron to talk about the news that Cary Fukunaga will direct ‘Bond 25’ (1:45) and Fukunaga’s new Netflix show ‘Maniac’ (13:06). Then Los Angeles–based band the Altons perform live in The Ringer studio (19:40) before Chris sits down with them to talk about how they got their start in music (36:42). Read Zach’s profile of Cary Fukunaga here. Read Miles Surrey on the pros and cons of Fukunaga directing ‘Bond 25’ here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, it's Liz Kelly.

0:03.0

Here are a few things to check out in the Ringer Universe before the end of the week.

0:06.2

We've got an oral history on the movie Rounder's 20 years later going up on Thursday, so

0:11.3

read that and then check out the rewatchables episode that Bill and Sean did on the movie

0:14.8

earlier this month.

0:16.5

And don't forget about our extensive football coverage to have a new pod going up every

0:20.4

day of the week on the Ringer NFL show and more football content on the Bill Simmons podcast,

0:25.3

dual threat and against all odds.

0:27.4

Subscribe to those and more on Apple Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:31.6

Hey, everyone.

0:35.0

Thanks for listening to today's episode of The Watch on today's pod.

0:39.2

My friend Zach Barron dropped by and we talked a little bit about Carrie Foucainaga taking

0:43.0

over the James Bond franchise, which is obviously pretty shocking news coming after Dady Boyle's

0:48.1

exit from from the long running series.

0:51.4

And we wanted to talk a little bit about what that means for Foucainaga for Bond.

0:55.1

And then also a little bit about Carrie Foucainaga's new Netflix show maniac, which is coming

0:59.0

out on Friday.

1:00.8

After that, I had a really, really awesome band from Los Angeles called the Alton's Drop

1:05.3

By.

1:06.3

And they played a few songs for us.

1:07.6

They were incredible live, like just an absolute delight.

1:11.5

If you get a chance to see them, I know that they've got a record coming out and they've

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