Episode 591 - Special Guest "Midway" Screenwriter Wes Tooke
Drinkin‘ Bros Podcast
Tetherball Academy Media
4.8 • 8K Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2020
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Ross Patterson and Dan Hollaway welcome special guest "Midway" screenwriter Wes Tooke to discuss his experience screenwriting the major blockbuster, working with actors such as Woody Harrelson, Dennis Quaid and Luke Evans, and other neat stories from his career in film.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Drinking Bros presented by GhostBed.com |
| 0:10.0 | Sit back, relax, and grab a fucking drink! |
| 0:17.0 | Welcome to Drinking Bros. We're talking movies today, Anthony. |
| 0:25.6 | Movies. |
| 0:26.6 | Movies. |
| 0:27.6 | Coming up in a little bit, we got a call in with the writer from the movie The Midway. |
| 0:36.6 | Wes Topp. |
| 0:37.6 | Yes, it was a big budget movie. |
| 0:40.6 | Yeah, there's 100 million. |
| 0:41.6 | They spent on that. |
| 0:42.6 | 100 million dollars. |
| 0:43.6 | Independent. |
| 0:44.6 | I think that's the second most. |
| 0:46.6 | Anyone's ever spent on an independent movie. |
| 0:48.6 | The biggest was Cloud Atlas, which I don't recommend watching unless you're on a lot of drugs. |
| 0:52.6 | Did you see it? |
| 0:53.6 | No. |
| 0:54.6 | I did not. |
| 0:55.6 | I saw, I've seen clips and I've seen the preview and I'm like, oh man, I need to be really |
| 0:59.3 | high to enjoy this. |
| 1:00.6 | To get financing for an independent film these days is incredibly difficult. |
| 1:06.1 | Yeah, my assumption is not for this movie, but for Cloud Atlas, just because of how weird |
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