On the Empire podcast this week, we say fangs but no fangs, Abraham Lincoln fanpour hunter,

yes that's a fangs but no fangs joke, we also consider the five-year engagements proposal,

we invite Noel Clark in for a ginwag, and we have a blunt in the pod booth, what would

my health and safety think? Hello pod, I'm Chris, you had fresh off at 7 a.m.

flight from Barcelona, so forgive me, if I'm even more incoherent and spaced out than

normal, and this is the Empire podcast, a film podcast and his critics falling over

themselves to ask, can you turn it up a bit? We can't hear anything. This week I'm joined

by three challengeers of such lethal cunning. No wait, that's the script from Indiana Jones

in the last crusade. What I meant to say was I'm joined by three colleagues of such lethal

cunning, at least I think it says cunning. Let's start with someone who's such a regular

and the podcaster or already cries for a spin-off, it's Empire's very own Evan Almighty

Helen Ahara. I'm hugely offended by that particular description. There are better spin-offs

out there. One better spin-off than Evan Almighty. Catwoman, no kidding. You can't, can you?

There is a better one. There's got to be. I'm going to be thinking about that. Come

back to me in that one. Next up is a man whose love of art house cinema runs so deep,

he's currently hard at work in the screenplay for a fourth film in the Apu trilogy. Please

welcome the writer of Apu in the city of Los Gold. Mr. Phil D'Essam. Thanks, Chris. Very

well. Does he know Apu in the city of Curly's Gold? But it's still in black and white. Who's

going to play Jack Pellans in that one? Casting, I can't really talk about it at this

point. Okay. It's too early. Keep it under wraps. And last but not least is Empire's very

own James King and by that we mean he looks like James King. It's Ollie Richards. Hello,

it's a very good joke when people can't see me. No, no, honestly, but they should look you

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