Hi, I'm Michael and welcome to Beyond the Screenplay, the podcast where each week we do a conversational deep dive analysis into a film.

Today we are continuing our journey through Middle Earth and talking about the Lord of the Rings, the Two Towers, the 2002 film directed by Peter Jackson,

screenplay by Fran Walsh, Philip O'Boyans, Steven Sinclair, and Peter Jackson, based on the novel

by J.R.R. Tolkien. I'm joined by the Beyond the Screenplay team, Trisha Arand. Hello,

everyone. Brian Bittner. Hello, hello. And Alex Cayotes. Hi. So here we are in part two of the two towers.

Lots of stuff to talk about.

I'm very excited about it.

But before we jump in, there's kind of a cool new thing that's happening with this episode.

So Spotify has a new feature that they have selected our podcast and our audience to kind of test out, which is a new Q&A feature. So basically, we can ask

you a question, you, the audience. And in the Spotify app, if you're listening in the Spotify

app, you can reply with your answer right in the app, and it'll send it right to us. And we'll be

able to see what your answer is. And you'll be able to check out other people's answers. And

it's just a fun little way for you to quickly engage with us within the Spotify app. So we have a question for you guys,

which do you prefer the theatrical cut of Lord of the Rings or the extended cut and why? And we're

going to be talking about that in just a moment. So anyway, if you are

listening on the Spotify app, head to the place where you can just type in your answer and we'll

check it out. I'm very curious to hear what everyone's thoughts are going to be and you're going

to hear our thoughts on it right now. And as a quick note, this is, it's starting as an Android

only feature, but it'll be rolling out to iOS later this month.

I might already be there for you.

So anyway, we're excited to test that out and hear from you guys.

And so now I want to hear from you guys.

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