Paul Feig On The Music Of Jackpot!

Soundtracking with Edith Bowman

Edith Bowman

Music, Tv & Film, Arts

4.6 • 754 Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Our latest guest in this bonus episode is Paul Feig, who returns to Soundtracking to discuss his latest film, Jackpot!, which is streaming now on Prime Video. Starring Awkwafina and John Cena, Jackpot! is a black comedy caper set in the near future, where winners of a huge lottery only get to keep their billions if they avoid being killed by anyone who wants to have a crack at them by sundown. Despite the dark premise, this is very much fast-paced, gag-driven slapstick fare in which both the protagonists shine.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome along to an episode this week's another bonus episode, in fact, of
0:05.9	soundtracking with me, Edith Bowman. I'm slightly giddy because I've actually just come down
0:12.6	from hosting 21st century soundtracks number 34 of this year's proms, which saw the most fantastic collection of pieces from films,
0:24.7	a lot of which we've talked about on this show from some of the most amazing composers.
0:30.4	Who did you have Jerskin, Fendricks, we had Hilda God Notier, Isabel Waller Bridge,
0:35.9	Max Wichter, so many. It was wonderful. If you want to check that out, it's available on BBCI Player for you to watch. So yeah, it was wonderful. Royal Albert Hall, Rob Ames conducting, I was in heaven. As I am, every time I come along to introduce you to one of my conversations, particularly this week because I had a blast with our guest.
0:59.0	Our latest guest, as I said, is this bonus episode and it's with Paul Figue, who returns to soundtracking to discuss his latest film Jackpot, which is streaming now on Prime Video.
1:09.0	Starring Aquafina and John Cena, Jackpot is a dark comedy caper set in the near future
1:15.5	where winners of a huge lottery only get to keep their billions if they avoid being killed
1:21.8	by anyone who wants to have a go by Sundown.
1:24.8	Despite this dark premise, it's very much fast-paced, gag-driven slapstick,
1:30.3	in which both the protagonists shine. As well as boasting and as yet unreleased score by Theodore Shapiro,
1:37.3	Jackpot has loads of crack and needle drops, including For the Love of money by the OJs. money money money money money money
2:01.6	money money money
2:04.6	money
2:05.6	money
2:06.6	money
2:07.6	money
2:08.6	money
2:09.6	money
2:10.6	money
2:11.6	money
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