'Death Note’ Director Adam Wingard on Building Monsters and Hollywood Whitewashing Controversies (Ep. 345)

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4.4 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2017

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Ringer editor-in-chief Sean Fennessey and Justin Charity chat about the Netflix film ‘Death Note’ and the difficulties of adapting anime (1:00). Then Sean sits down with director Adam Wingard to discuss how he went from scraping by to directing large-scale projects like ‘Death Note’ and the forthcoming ‘Godzilla vs. Kong’ (13:00). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey guys, are you watching Talk The Thrones?
0:02.7	All season long Andy Greenwald, our mother of dragons, Mallory Ruben, Chris Ryan, and
0:06.6	our very own master Jason Katsepsione have been coming to you live after the East Coast
0:09.8	airings of Game of Thrones season 7.
0:11.6	They're going to continue with the season finale this Sunday.
0:14.3	Talk The Thrones streams exclusively on Twitter and Periscope right after Game of Thrones
0:17.5	ends and can be found on the Ringer's Twitter handle.
0:19.7	That's AdRinger.
0:20.7	They'll be reacting at the same time as you contextualizing the events and explaining what
0:24.1	just happened.
0:25.1	Again, the show is called Talk The Thrones and you can stream it live after the East Coast
0:28.4	airing of Game of Thrones on our Twitter and Periscope at Ringer.
0:31.1	What else are you doing on Sunday night?
0:35.6	That's the funny thing is I thought there's no way this is going to happen.
0:38.2	This is a right-ed-arm movie about a magic notebook and you know, it's a big budget, relatively
0:43.1	speaking.
0:46.3	My name is Sean Phenasty.
0:47.3	I'm the editor-in-chief of the Ringer and here's the big picture.
0:50.7	Today we have an exciting and interesting show.
0:52.7	I'm joined by the director Adam Wingard, probably best known for his horror films including
0:57.0	movies like Your Next, The Recent Blair Witch Remake, and now he has a somewhat controversial,
1:02.8	somewhat fascinating new adaptation called Death Note coming to Netflix on August 25th.
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