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Adam Carolla Show

Part 2: Director George Gallo on ‘Midnight Run’ and ‘The Comeback Trail’, plus the News (ACS Jan 20)

Adam Carolla Show

PodcastOne / Carolla Digital

Comedy, Talk Radio

4.536.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

At the top of Part 2 of today’s podcast, Adam welcomes George Gallo to the podcast. The guys talk about the writing process of his new movie, ‘The Comeback Trail’, and how he got the legendary lineup of Robert DeNiro, Tommy Lee Jones, and Morgan Freeman on board. They also discuss ‘Midnight Run’, the legacy of actor Charles Grodin, and how DeNiro has changed (or not) over the decades. Later they chat about how hard it is to make good art when you have a committee to satisfy, and the show wraps up with Gina Grad’s News! Please support today’s sponsors: KFC.com TommyJohn.com/ADAM Lifelock.com enter ADAM SimpliSafe.com/ADAM Geico.com True Underdog Podcast

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0:00.0

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0:07.0

Thanks for listening to the Adam Carolla Show on Podcast One.

0:16.0

Director Ryder George Gallo is going to join us news coming up after George.

0:21.0

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0:45.2

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0:49.7

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0:58.0

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0:59.0

George Gallo is joining us.

1:00.0

The comeback trail is the name of the movie. It's coming soon the release got pushed back into somewhere.

1:07.0

In 2021 due to COVID. It's got DeNiro's in it. Tommy Lee Jones, Morgan Freeman, Emile Hirsch, and a lot of recognizable

1:16.2

and big name stars.

1:17.8

Good to see you, George.

1:19.2

Good to see you, Adam.

1:21.5

So what's the process of making a movie like this and is it always what we suspect

1:28.9

that once you get Robert DeNiro it's easier to get Tommy Lee Jones and Morgan Freeman or is that, are we way off on that?

1:37.3

No, no, you're absolutely 100% correct.

1:40.7

The history of that project was, I wrote the script several years ago with I have a writing partner on that one at Josh Posner and we would give it to people with and they would read it and they say, you know, it's one of the funniest things I've read in a long time, but this would just not interested in making it, you know, because of, you know, various, it doesn't check various boxes, you know, as if checking boxes is a guaranteed hit, you know.

2:06.9

And but no, the reason this happened was, you know, Bob DeNiro, I know very well from midnight run.

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