Interview Series: ANDREW STANTON

What Really Happened?

Andrew Jenks

Society & Culture

4.5 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2019

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Andrew Stanton is a storytelling guru. He's won Academy Awards for Finding Nemo and Wall-E, and his films have made over a billion dollars worldwide. But, he's also experienced the other end of the spectrum when John Carter lost $250 million and got terrible reviews. In this wide-ranging interview, Jenks talks to Stanton about his hit films, how to face failure, and how he ignores the critics... plus, one nasty joke. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome everyone to what really happened the interview series.
0:07.0	This is your humble host Andrew Janks.
0:10.0	Hey, if you have the time, I'd really appreciate it if you could go to the Apple Podcast comments
0:17.0	link and just write something nice.
0:20.8	I've got to stop checking it, but there's a few people out there who are really, you know,
0:26.2	I think we got to level it up, even though we have a 4-5.
0:29.2	So let's get right into things.
0:30.9	The New York Times called the film Brilliant.
0:37.5	Spike Lee said, despite it being all white people, this movie gave me either chills, tears,
0:44.5	or had me at the edge of my seat.
0:47.2	It went on to make $750 million.
0:52.5	When two-time Academy Award winner Andrew Santon made the 2012 film John Carter, he and
0:57.5	Disney were hoping, perhaps expecting, all of those things to be true.
1:03.1	Despite Lee thing, I kind of went a bit of rye there, but either way, they were anticipating
1:07.8	a hit and a huge box office success.
1:11.4	But instead the film was panned.
1:13.3	It lost a quarter of a billion dollars and is considered one of the biggest box office
1:18.5	flops in history.
1:20.7	Before listening to the following interview, I really suggest listening to John Carter,
1:24.9	Anatomy of a box office flop.
1:27.3	It was one of our most popular episodes from season two.
1:30.9	And it's about this film, John Carter, that was directed by Andrew Santon.
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