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Hello media consumers welcome to press box Friday Brian Curtis of the ringer here along with producer Eric a

Servantess we got a big show this week. It's a new episode of our media movies series and our guest is Oliver Stone

Now you know Oliver Stone movies like Platoon and JFK and natural born killers

I want to take you back before all that to the year 1985

Stone is in his late 30s and he's mostly a screenwriter

Having won the Oscar for Midnight Express and having written macho violent movies like Scarface

At this point Stone had only directed two movies both of them unsuccessful and he was desperate to become a director full time

And it was a journalist who got Stone back into the director's chair

The journalist name was Richard Boyle and as you'll hear he was a character

Stone decided to make a fictionalized movie about Richard Boyle's exploits covering the Civil War in El Salvador in the

1980s Boyle in the movie would be played by a fast-talking James Woods and Jim Belushi played a friend of Boyle's called Dr.

Rock the movie has what we would come to know is a trademark Oliver Stone's speech about American foreign policy

Pretty funny if you follow James Woods on Twitter these days and the making of Salvador as Stone called the movie

was absolute hell

But the movie got made and if Stone was still figuring himself out as a director the movie turned out really really well

Now if you haven't seen Salvador that's okay

I think you'll be interested in the story of how you turn a real life reporters adventures into a movie and how someone like

Stone navigated what turned out to be an enormously important moment in his career

Here's Oliver Stone on Salvador

Oliver, how'd you first meet the journalist Richard Boyle?

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