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In Space There's No Room To Eat A Sandwich: William Goldman, Creed II, Star Wars, Thor, FilmStruck, A24

/Film Weekly

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🗓️ 16 November 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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On the November 16, 2018 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film weekend editor Brad Oman and senior writer Ben Pearson to talk about the latest film and tv news, including William Goldman, Creed II, Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, Thor, FilmStruck, and A24.   You can subscribe to /Film Daily on iTunes, Google Play, Overcast, Spotify and all the popular podcast apps (here is the RSS URL if you need it). Opening Banter: How does Brad edit the weekend? In The News: Ben: William Goldman, Oscar-Winning Writer of ‘The Princess Bride’ and ‘Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid’, Dead at 87 Brad: ‘Creed II’ Early Buzz: Not As Good as ‘Creed’, But Still a Solid Sequel Ben: ‘Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge’ Hotel Details Revealed; First Look at Disney’s New ‘Spider-Man’ Ride Brad: Sam Raimi Almost Made ‘Thor’ in 1991, Originally Didn’t Want Stan Lee in ‘Spider-Man’ Ben: Is FilmStruck Saved? “New Iteration” Coming to Warner Media’s Streaming Service Ben: Apple Teams With A24, Distribution Company Behind ‘Moonlight’ and ‘Hereditary’, For New Movies All the other stuff you need to know: You can find more about all the stories we mentioned on today’s show at slashfilm.com, and linked inside the show notes. /Film Daily is published every weekday, bringing you the most exciting news from the world of movies and television as well as deeper dives into the great features from slashfilm.com. You can subscribe to /Film Daily on iTunes, Google Play, Overcast, Spotify and all the popular podcast apps (RSS). Send your feedback, questions, comments and concerns to us at peter@slashfilm.com. Please leave your name and general geographic location in case we mention the e-mail on the air. Please rate and review the podcast on iTunes, tell your friends and spread the word! Thanks to Sam Hume for our logo. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to slash film daily for Friday, November 16th 2018.

0:04.4

On today's episode we're going to talk about the latest film and TV news.

0:07.0

This is slash film editor and chief Peter Sorretta.

0:09.3

Joining me on today's podcast is slash film weekend editor Brad Omen.

0:13.0

Hey, that's me.

0:14.0

And senior writer, Ben Pearson.

0:17.0

Hey, what's going on?

0:18.0

Brad, what is it like to edit the weekend?

0:22.0

Um, slow and not very exciting most of the time.

0:29.0

Fair enough.

0:30.0

Okay, let's jump into the news. Let's start off with a bit of sad news.

0:36.0

That is the death of William Goldman, a Oscar winning screenwriter, and Ben, you wrote up the obituary for slash one of the com what do we know

0:46.7

Yeah, so William Goldman has died at the age of 87 he won two Oscars for screenwriting for Bush

0:53.8

Cassidy and the Sundance kid and for all the president's men.

0:56.8

He was not just a screenwriter. He wrote novels and plays and

1:01.6

he was a master. He was one of those guys that everybody knew and everybody loved and he

1:08.4

was I mean arguably as famous in Hollywood for his statement about the inner workings of the entertainment industry.

1:16.4

The quote, the famous quote that he said was nobody knows anything and people quote that

1:20.6

all the time because it's one of the truest things that's ever been said

1:24.3

about the entertainment industry as a whole. Goldman was a, I mean a terrific writer, he wrote

1:31.7

Marathon Man and the Great Waldo Pepper and the misery

1:34.6

adaptation from the Stephen King novel I mean he has a long list of credits and it's

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