Rian Johnson & The Go! Team

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 16 January 2018

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Buckle up, y'all, we've got a dynamite lineup! First off: Rian Johnson, writer and director of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, which is discussed in extensive detail (don't say we didn't warn you). Besides directing a film in one of the biggest franchises in history, Rian's created the acclaimed movie Brick - kind of a Coen Bros inspired film noir starring teenagers in Orange County. He also wrote and directed the sci-fi thriller Looper, and a few of the most memorable Breaking Bad episodes, too. Then, the Go! Team. Formed in the year 2000 in Brighton, England, the band's basically the brainchild of Ian Parton. He recorded a lot of the band's first album in his parent's kitchen and released it as Thunder, Lightning, Strike - a solid record. On that album you'll find the track "Huddle Formation" - AKA the Bullseye theme song. Their newest album just dropped - it's called Semicircle. Finally: can you be super glamorous and deeply real at the same time? Of course you can, just ask Sylvester.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:12.6	I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:13.8	So pretend you're a director.
0:15.2	Like a film director.
0:16.9	And you got an IMDB page and there's, you know, there's some well-received indie movies.
0:21.9	There's a few prestige TV episodes.
0:23.9	You've never really done anything with a big budget.
0:27.4	One one day you head to an office for a meeting, a general meeting with a big time producer.
0:33.3	You walk into the room that closed the door behind you, lock it.
0:37.4	She looks at you and she says, hey, you want to direct the new Star Wars?
0:43.4	That's what happened to Ryan Johnson.
0:45.0	So I walked into the room literally having no idea that what was coming.
0:49.4	And she shut the door behind me and she said, you know, no one knows this yet, but JJ's
0:53.7	not coming back for eight.
0:55.8	We're not going out to a bunch of people.
0:57.8	I just want to sit down with you and say, do you want to do it?
1:02.1	You can just imagine how I felt because it's how you would feel if that happened to you.
1:10.4	That moment though, I was just, my brain was leaking out of my butt.
1:16.7	It's Bullseye.
1:24.7	Coming up Ryan Johnson, he wrote and directed Star Wars The Last Jedi.
1:29.7	He'll talk with me about how he got the offer, what the process of making a Star Wars movie is actually like.
1:35.7	And why he thinks it's important that Star Wars be funny.
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