Episode 1264 - Franklin Leonard

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.6 • 29.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2021

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Franklin Leonard helped change the way movies get made in Hollywood. It's not what he expected as a young Black math wiz growing up in Georgia. But after a love affair with movies that started at Kim's Video in New York City, Franklin established The Black List, a tool that became one of the hottest commodities in show business and opened doors for people who weren't getting a shot. Franklin and Marc talk about how The Black List movies made millions, how it pushed back on conventional wisdom, and how Franklin is still paving a way for undiscovered talent.

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0:00.0	Lock the gates!
0:01.0	Alright, let's do this.
0:10.9	How are you with the fuckers?
0:12.2	What the fuck buddies?
0:13.2	What the fuck, Nick?
0:14.2	This is Mark Marin.
0:15.2	This is my podcast.
0:16.2	One of the originals.
0:17.2	Well, I don't know if I can really say that.
0:19.3	It's an old timey podcast.
0:22.3	Twelve years running or so.
0:24.7	You know when you start something that's a passion project at a pure desperation.
0:29.6	You don't know when it will become your life's work.
0:32.9	And this has become my life's work.
0:35.3	Oddly and not a lot of other podcasts have grown up around me, but this is the life's
0:40.6	work.
0:41.6	We are rooted in the OG tradition of podcasting.
0:45.9	Podcasting.
0:46.9	Again, there were people around when I started.
0:50.3	There were people before me, but this is mine.
0:53.8	This is mine.
0:55.3	And it's still going very well.
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