Interview With "How To Make A Killing" Filmmaker John Patton Ford

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2026

⏱️ 22 minutes

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"How To Make A Killing" is a black comedy thriller film written and directed by John Patton Ford. Following his Sundance directorial debut feature film "Emily The Criminal," Ford gathered the talents of Glen Powell, Margaret Qualley, Jessica Henwick, Bill Camp, Zach Woods, Topher Grace, and Ed Harris to bring his loosely inspired contemporary version of the 1949 British film "Kind Hearts and Coronets" to the big screen. It wasn't always the easiest process (when is making a movie ever easy?), and Ford was kind enough to spend some time speaking with us about his experience and work on the film, which you can listen to below. Please be sure to check out the film, which is now playing in theaters from A24. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You were listening to The Next Best Picture Podcast, and this is my interview with the director and writer for Monica Killing, John Patton Ford.
0:07.6	Okay. Gun to your head. What would you even do with a billion dollars?
0:15.4	Why do you have a gun on my head?
0:25.1	Since the day I was born, my mother told me we were different.
0:27.7	Yes, she had been disowned by her family.
0:34.7	But someday, I would become the sole heir, the real estate, planes, an island or two.
0:37.6	Beckett. No way.
0:38.7	Are you living in the city now?
0:39.9	Yeah, I do.
0:42.6	A little outside of it.
0:44.0	Whatever happened to the Redfellow family fortune.
0:47.2	All inherited.
0:49.2	Someday.
0:51.1	Well, call me when you've killed them all.
0:53.8	Hello, everyone. welcome to the next best
0:55.5	picture podcast where i be enjoyed by the director writer for how to make you killing john patten
0:59.9	ford thank you sir so much for your time here really appreciate you talking to me yeah man
1:05.4	thank you that's a pleasure to be here yeah man so a couple of ago, you had this really fantastic film that debuted at Sundance,
1:14.6	Emily the Criminal, which I was a big fan of.
1:17.6	And so coming off of that, as I understand it, how to make a killing was a screenplay
1:22.6	that you had already written before that movie, somebody else was going to direct it. And I'm going to take a wild guess and say that because of the success of Ellie the criminal, that's what got you in the director's chair this time around for this film? Sort of. Man, there's a long and weird history with this one. Tell me. I wish I could. I'd get in trouble.
1:46.0	Trust me, Matt, there's a long story there.
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