Jason Reitman

Talking Pictures

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Tv & Film

4.8 • 713 Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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This week, writer/director Jason Reitman (Saturday Night, Juno, Up in the Air) joins host Ben Mankiewicz to talk about growing up on a movie set, his brief stint writing for Saturday Night Live, and the joys of directing George Clooney. Reitman also reveals what his father, the late director Ivan Reitman, taught him about storytelling and making movies. During the Super 8, Jason surprises Ben with the movie props in his enviable collection. Films Mentioned: Meatballs Stripes Ghostbusters Dave Thank You For Smoking Juno Inglourious Basterds Animal House Up in the Air* Saturday Night The Front Runner Ghostbusters: Afterlife The Fabelmans Westworld Jurassic Park* Twins E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Back to the Future Jaws The Godfather Election Dr. Strangelove Harold and Maude Shampoo Carnal Knowledge The Graduate Taxi Driver The Conversation Run Lola Run The Blair Witch Project Sexy Beast American Psycho Wet Hot American Summer Pulp Fiction Dazed and Confused Slacker* Bad News Bears Boyhood A Scanner Darkly Before Sunrise Before Sunset Field of Dreams Stand by Me Breaking Away Little Miss Sunshine 24 Hour Party People Casablanca* Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Magnolia Boogie Nights Pee-wee's Big Adventure Singin' in the Rain* *Available on Max as of 12/10 (Availability of titles subject to change) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I grew up on sets and I loved the fact that people got up at the crack of dawn and then they'd look at a scene and go, how are we going to do this?
0:11.0	We're doing something for the first time that no one's ever done before and we got to figure it out.
0:15.0	And the distance between putting on like a high school play or like a summer camp musical and making a movie is not as far as you think.
0:23.8	It's still just people throwing things together with scotch tape.
0:30.4	When Jason Reitman was a kid, he would hang out on his dad's film sets.
0:35.8	His father was Ivan Reitman, a really talented director behind a
0:40.8	long list of era-defining comedies, including meatballs, stripes, Ghostbusters, and Dave.
0:50.4	Jason followed in his dad's considerable footsteps.
0:54.8	He started directing his own films, beginning with the 2005 indie comedy,
1:00.2	Thank You for Smoking.
1:02.0	His follow-up was the smash hit Juno.
1:05.5	The movie stars Elliot Page as Juno, a 16-year-old who discovers she's pregnant after sleeping with her
1:12.8	shy and artsy friend, Pauly Bleaker, played by Michael Serra.
1:17.5	Allison Janney is Juno's stepmother.
1:20.3	J.K. Simmons plays her dad.
1:23.5	I'm pregnant.
1:25.1	Oh, God.
1:26.1	Who is the kid?
1:27.4	The baby? I don't really know much about it other than, I mean, it Oh, God. Who is the kid? The baby?
1:28.1	I don't really know much about it other than...
1:30.1	I mean, it has fingernails, allegedly.
1:32.3	Nails, really?
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