Jonah Nolan (director & screenwriter)

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2024

⏱️ 137 minutes

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Jonah Nolan (Fallout, Westworld, The Dark Knight) is a screenwriter, director, and producer. Jonah joins the Armchair Expert to discuss why he doesn’t have a British accent like his brother, what he learned working on farm, and why he wrote his first script about amnesia. Jonah and Dax talk about how much research he does when taking on a project, how the perception of doing television has changed, and why humanizing the subject matter is so important in scriptwriting. Jonah explains how he finds himself crying more as a parent, how he approached adapting a video game to TV, and why biopics are so hard to make. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome, welcome welcome to armchair expert experts on expert. I'm Dan Shepard and I'm joined by Monica Padman.
0:07.0	This was fun.
0:08.0	Fuck yes, this was fun. Right out of the gates he arrived in the coolest car and an aerial Adam in the off-road setup.
0:15.4	And I was like, what the book is this?
0:17.4	Yes, and I was a meal like, okay, I see you, Jonah Nolan.
0:22.0	I didn't know. I think of you as a very clever writer a tour probably
0:27.1	smarter than me he was very smart he is smarter than me but we had the car thing that that was
0:32.2	helpful but Jonah Nolan is a director,
0:34.9	producer, an Academy Award nominated screenwriter. He is famously brothers with Christopher Nolan and they have done so many of your favorite things together,
0:43.9	the prestige, interstellar, the dark night, Memento.
0:47.9	Then of course Jonah was the director of Westworld, which was one of my favorite shows ever.
0:54.0	And he has a new series out now.
0:56.0	I hope people can tell when I'm truly insanely passionate for a show.
1:00.0	I hope they can't.
1:01.0	This is my show of 2024. Yeah.
1:07.0	Fall out. Holy smokes, this show is so
1:10.4	fucking awesome.
1:11.4	Based off the video game.
1:12.4	Ew.
1:14.0	Also, we talked about this when he left.
1:16.0	This is like with Phineas and Billy Eilish.
1:18.0	If I am the parents of these Nolan brothers...
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