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The Business

Edgar Wright on ‘The Sparks Brothers’ and embracing originality

The Business

KCRW

Tv & Film

4.6676 Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Filmmaker Edgar Wright's new music documentary “The Sparks Brothers” celebrates two musicians whose work he loves. Ron and Russell Mael are brothers who make up the band Sparks, and they’re a pair of complete originals. Wright is an original, too. His hit movie “Baby Driver” and upcoming thriller “Last Night in Soho” are based on ideas he made up. And he can’t help but wonder why movie studios aren’t willing to take a few more chances on fresh ideas.

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0:00.0

From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is The Business.

0:04.9

Filmmaker Edgar Wright's new music documentary celebrates two musicians whose work he loves,

0:10.4

The Enigmatic Sparks Brothers.

0:13.0

They're a pair of complete originals, and Wright is an original, too.

0:16.9

His hit movie Baby Driver was based on stuff he made up,

0:24.1

and he can't help but wonder why movie studios aren't willing to take just a few more chances on fresh ideas.

0:27.3

I feel like as a sort of film fan, there's been a lot of like just

0:30.3

I've grown out of franchises because,

0:33.6

and no disrespect to the films, I just kind of think,

0:35.9

you know, I don't really need to see another X-Men film in my lifetime.

0:38.7

I'm good.

0:39.5

I don't need one every two years.

0:40.9

I'm good.

0:41.7

Wright explains how fellow filmmaker Phil Lord inspired him to turn his obsession with the Spark

0:46.6

Brothers into his new documentary.

0:48.8

And he talks about losing a gig as the writer and director of Marvel's Ant Man in 2014.

0:56.6

Turns out his much-analyzed tweet of a Buster Keaton photo at that time actually wasn't full of meaning. But first on the

1:02.6

news banter, NBC Universal goes for the gold. Stick around. It's the business from KCRW.

1:13.2

I am joined by my partner in banter, Matt Bellany.

1:16.4

Hello, Matt.

1:17.0

Hi there.

1:17.7

So as you know, the Summer Olympics are scheduled to go ahead.

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