Most Underrated Directors, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Indiana Jones, Rocky, Taika Waititi & Akira

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🗓️ 24 May 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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On the May 24, 2019 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film managing editor Jacob Hall, senior writer Ben Pearson, and writer Chris Evangelista to discuss the latest film and tv news, including Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Indiana Jones, Rocky, Taika Waititi, and Akira. And in the Mail Bag, we’ll talk about our most underrated directors. In The News: Chris: ‘Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic’ Movie In the Works at Lucasfilm Chris: Harrison Ford Says Indiana Jones Dies With Him (Sorry, Chris Pratt) Ben: Sylvester Stallone Has An Idea For A New 'Rocky' Movie, Talks Talks 'Rambo V' and Rebooting 'Cobra' for TV Chris: ‘Bubbles’, Taika Waititi’s Netflix Movie About Michael Jackson’s Pet Chimp, is No Longer Happening Ben: Taika Waititi’s ‘Akira’ Film Rides Into Theaters in 2021 In The Mailbag: Nicholas Ewers writes in “Hello, /FilmDaily team, I was curious if you guys have any directors who you believe are not getting enough recognition for the art they put out? For example, I think Denis Villeneuve puts out amazing work, but no one in my circle talks about him ever. I used to think the same of Rian Johnson, until his talents got rewarded with Star Wars and became talk of the town. I'm interested to know what you have to say, because I feel like we're in a time where the big directors eventually won't be around anymore, and these newer ones will eventually be taking the reigns. But some of the new directors who put out AMAZING work aren't on most people's radars like a Spielberg or an Abrams would be. Thanks again for the daily content.”Peter: Hiro Murai (Atlanta, Barry, Legion, Guava Island), Alex Garland (Ex Machina, Annihilation) Chris: James Gray Jacob: Ben Wheatley, Nacho Vigalondo Ben: Alex Garland, Drew Goddard, Jeff Nichols, Shane Carruth, Leslye Headland, Justin Simien All the other stuff you need to know: You can find more about all the stories we mentioned on today’s show at slashfilm.com, and linked inside the show notes. /Film Daily is published every weekday, bringing you the most exciting news from the world of movies and television as well as deeper dives into the great features from slashfilm.com. You can subscribe to /Film Daily on iTunes, Google Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify and all the popular podcast apps (RSS). Send your feedback, questions, comments and concerns to us at peter@slashfilm.com. Please leave your name and general geographic location in case we mention the e-mail on the air. Please rate and review the podcast on iTunes, tell your friends and spread the word! Thanks to Sam Hume for our logo. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome slash film daily for Friday, May 24th, 2019.
0:05.0	On today's episode we're going to talk about the latest film and TV news and in the mailbag
0:08.3	we'll discuss our most underrated directors of this moment. This is slash film Editor-in-Chief
0:14.6	Peter Sorretta and joining me into this podcast this slash film managing editor
0:18.6	Jacob Paul. Hello hello. Senior writer Ben Pearson. Hey what's going on? And writer Chris. Hello,
0:23.0	senior writer, Ben Pearson.
0:22.0	Hey, what's going on?
0:24.0	And writer, Chris Evangelista.
0:26.0	Hello, folks.
0:27.0	Okay, so news hit yesterday afternoon
0:31.0	after we all left the slash home offices and that is that they are making a
0:36.7	Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic movie and we know who is writing it.
0:41.2	Uh, yes, so Leita Calag and also Shutter Island, which is a movie I love, you know, a lot of people
0:48.8	don't like it, uh, is apparently writing the first of what could be a trilogy of films based on the Knights of the Old Republic games,
0:57.5	which I have never played because I don't play games. I'm sorry everyone, but
1:02.4	I do know for my research for this that these games were very popular and people have long hoped for a movie based on these games and now it looks like it's happening and this is something
1:13.6	completely separate from the trilogy that the the game of Frunes guys are writing and
1:20.0	that Ryan Johnson is presumably making so you, you know, even though Star Wars is taking a few years off
1:25.8	from the movies after the Rise of Skywalker,
1:29.2	they're already planning a whole bunch of new stuff over there at Lucasfilm and this is one of the things.
1:35.2	Yeah, Kathleen Kennedy has said that they are planning the next decade of Star Wars films.
1:40.4	And we really didn't know what that meant at Star Wars Celebration.
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