GGACP Classic: Dennis Muren

Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

Starburns Audio

Visual Arts, Tv & Film, Comedy, Arts

4.8 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2025

⏱️ 83 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

To celebrate National Film Score Day, Gilbert and Frank are joined by Oscar-winning composer and guest co-host Michael Giacchino for a chat with one of Michael's childhood heroes, Academy Award-winning special effects artist (and GGACP fan!) Dennis Muren. In this episode, Dennis praises the artistry of stop-motion animation, looks back on the early days of Industrial Light & Magic and shares behind-the-scenes stories from the making of modern classics “E.T.,” “Jurassic Park” and “The Empire Strikes Back.” Also, Marlon Brando ages gracefully, Irwin Allen breaks up the Marx Brothers, Michael gets nostalgic for the “Temple of Doom” mine car sequence and Dennis remembers longtime friends Forrest Ackerman and Ray Harryhausen. PLUS: “Flesh Gordon”! The magic of Willis O’Brien! “Casablanca” in 3-D! And Bob Burns recreates “The Exorcist”! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	TV comics, movie stars hit singles and some toys.
0:06.0	Trivia and dirty jokes.
0:09.0	An evening with the boys.
0:11.0	Once is never good enough for something so fantastic.
0:17.0	So here's another Gilbert and Franks. Here's another Gilbert and Franks, here's another
0:23.6	Gilbert and Franks, here's another Gilbert in Franks.
0:26.6	Colossal Classic Hi, this is Gilbert Gottfried, and this is Gilbert Gottfried's amazing colossal podcast.
0:52.5	I'm here with my co-host, Frank Santopatra, and we're once again
0:58.6	recording with our engineer Frank Ferdorosa. And our guest this week is an Emmy and Oscar-winning
1:07.9	visual effects and special effects artist, and the senior visual effects supervisor and creative director of industrial light and magic.
1:22.6	You may have heard of it.
1:25.0	Reading this man's list of credits is staggering and overwhelming.
1:30.9	But what the hell will take a crack at it?
1:35.3	Star Wars, the Empire strikes back,
1:38.8	close encounters of the third kind,
1:42.0	Raiders of the Lost Art, E.T. the extraterrestrial, Willow, the Abyss, Terminator 2
1:51.7	Judgment Day, War of the Worlds, and Jurassic Park, just to name a few.
2:10.5	Among his many achievements was spearheading ILM's move from models and miniatures to CGI for Terminator 2 and helping to usher in a brand new age of computer generated imagery with the
2:23.5	CG dinosaurs of Jurassic Park.
2:28.5	He's been nominated for 15 Academy Awards, winning nine of them,
2:37.0	giving him the most Oscars of any living filmmaker.
2:42.8	He's also been honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Starburns Audio, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Starburns Audio and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.