Piranha II: The Spawning

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Society & Culture, Comedy

4.7 • 6.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2016

⏱️ 80 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

In the debut episode of a new mini series examining the filmography of James Cameron, Griffin and David discuss 1981’s B horror, Piranha II: The Spawning. But what is the story behind Cameron’s first “unofficial” offering as a director? What was the main request from the italian financiers of this film? In it’s 84 minute runtime are there more fish or people spawning? Together #thetwofriends delve into Cameron’s early career, share their mutual appreciation for actor Lance Henriksen, and attempt to make sense of this bonkers plot. Join our Patreon for franchise commentaries and bonus episodes. Follow us @blankcheckpod on Instagram, Threads, Facebook and X! Buy some real nerdy merch. Connect with other Blankies on our Reddit or Discord For anything else, check out BlankCheckPod.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	It's podcast to the spotting
0:24.1	I'm not going to be a
0:26.1	great line in that movie.
0:28.1	No one's going to know. No one's watching this.
0:30.1	I think this will be no one will watch it.
0:32.1	There is no thing we have covered including the
0:34.1	buried secret of M. Night Shyline.
0:36.1	I'm not praying with anger.
0:38.1	I think more people look that up on YouTube.
0:40.1	I don't think many people watch that.
0:42.1	I don't know if anyone's going to fucking watch this.
0:44.1	This is a great start to our new mini-series.
0:46.1	Guys, I'm David Sims.
0:48.1	I'm Griffin Newman.
0:50.1	This is a podcast called Blank Check.
0:52.1	We're going through the filmographies of directors who experience early success
0:56.1	and then are given a series of Blank checks by Hollywood to do crazy passion projects.
1:00.1	Sometimes those checks clear and sometimes they bounce baby.
1:04.1	Sure.
1:06.1	And we're, you know, we talked about a lot of film.
1:08.1	Yeah, George Lucas.
1:10.1	Boom.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.