Interview With "The Mitchells vs. The Machines" Director, Writer & Star, Mike Rianda

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Mike Rianda's feature-length directorial debut "The Mitchells vs. The Machines" is premiering this weekend on Netflix after having a long road to release. A six year long project, the film first started at Sony with "Spider-Man: Into The Spier-Verse's" creative team and the producers Phil Lord and Chris Miller before moving to Netflix due to the COVID-19 pandemic, receiving a name-change (formerly titled "Connected") and now, it's finally here for the world to see. Mike was kind enough to take a few minutes to talk with us about the film's themes, its characters, the animation process and more! Check out below and be sure to watch the film on Netflix. Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/nextbestpicturepodcast iTunes Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://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 my interview with the writer, director, and star of the Netflix animated film The Mitchells versus the machines, Mike Reanda.
0:11.2	Let it begin.
0:14.2	The last humans must be here somewhere.
0:17.4	Wait.
0:18.6	They're coming. Is that a burnt orange 1993 station wagon?
0:28.6	Or is it?
0:29.6	Ah!
0:30.6	Who are these unstoppable warriors?
0:32.6	We're the Mitchells.
0:33.6	The only people who can save the world.
0:36.6	I'm super sorry, everyone. Let me introduce myself. I'm Katie. I'm sort of a weird though. My parents haven't figured me out yet. To be fair, it took me a while to figure myself out. My brother, also weird. Hi, would you like to talk to me about dinosaurs? No. Okay, thank you. And my mom. Katie Face cupcakes.
0:55.0	All of us, really.
0:56.0	How about we put our phones down and we can make 10 seconds of unobstructed family eye contact.
1:03.0	Starting now.
1:04.0	See, this is good right here. This is natural.
1:09.0	Every family has its challenges. We haven't had a good family. See, this is good right here. This is natural.
1:13.6	Every family has its challenges. We haven't had a good family picture in years because you two are always arguing.
1:17.6	For my family, our greatest challenge.
1:23.6	Probably the robot apocalypse.
1:25.6	Attention all robots.
1:29.3	Capture every single person on the planet.
1:33.3	What would a functional family do?
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