Interview With "Black Panther" Editor, Michael P. Shawver

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2018

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Michael P. Shawver has had a long collaboration with writer/director Ryan Coogler going all the way back to their years in film school together. Michael has served as an editor on all of Ryan's films so far including "Fruitvale Station," "Creed" and now their biggest film to date, "Black Panther." What is their collaboration process like and how has it evolved over the years? How was the experience of working on a large Marvel property any different than what the two had done before? And what's it like being a part of a huge critical, financial success and now, awards hopeful? We discuss all of this and more here on the Next Best Picture Podcast. Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... SoundCloud - @nextbestpicturepodcast iTunes Podcasts - itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-…d1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is Daniel Howard's interview with the editor for Black Panther, Michael P. Schallner.
0:08.5	The world is changing. Soon, there will only be the conquerter and the conquerors.
0:20.3	Step into the spot like, you are a good man. Step into the spotlight.
0:21.6	You are a good man.
0:23.6	Step into the spotlight.
0:25.6	It's a good heart.
0:28.6	And it's hard for a good man to be a king. Hey everyone, this is Daniel Howitt, and today I'm here with Michael Schauver, editor of Fruitvale
0:46.9	Station, Creed, and a little film from this year called Black Cancer. Michael, thanks for talking
0:52.7	with us today. Thanks for having me.
0:54.3	I'm looking forward to talking to you.
0:56.0	Like I said, you've edited all three of Ryan Cougar's films.
0:59.5	Fruitvale Station was your first feature and then Creed.
1:02.5	And now we're here with Black Panther.
1:04.4	What's it like going from a small film like Fruitvale Station all the way to a massive project like Black Panther.
1:12.2	There are a lot of things that are different, a lot of things that are the same. And actually,
1:16.6	we actually started working together in film school at the University of Southern California. We
1:21.8	met in a directing class. And he was making short films that were just beyond anything else that was that was being
1:30.3	made at the school and you know sometimes there was no dialogue at all and it would just leave you
1:34.7	with tears in your eyes at the end of it and i just they were socially relevant and and culturally
1:39.7	relevant and things like that so i just went up to him one day and said, hey, you know, I want to
1:45.4	make the same kind of things and I can edit a little bit and maybe we can work together. And I actually
1:50.6	edited a short that he did in film school. And with that short, we had a very small crew, but we
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