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Astonishing Legends

Richard Hatem - Screenwriter of the Mothman Prophecies

Astonishing Legends

Scott Philbrook

History, Society & Culture

4.69.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2017

⏱️ 123 minutes

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Summary

Tonight we have a conversation with screenwriter and producer Richard Hatem, known for such Motion Picture and Television projects as The Mothman Prophecies, Under Siege 2: Dark Territory, Grimm, Damien, Supernatural, Witches of East End, The Gates and many, many others. We discuss with Rich his approach to adapting John Keel's book, The Mothman Prophecies for the Big Screen, the larger concepts surrounding the events, his life-long interest in the paranormal and supernatural, as well as a lot of other cool stuff.

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0:00.0

This week's episode of astonishing Legends is brought to you in part by the great courses plus the spoke post square space and blue apron

0:06.8

And we're back and we have company say hello rich. Hello rich. All right. Don't steal the show

0:12.2

We're gonna get back to you in a minute not a lot of housekeeping to do in this cold open

0:15.9

But we did want to point out a couple of quick corrections about last week's show on paracheney Michigan

0:20.1

Yes, first things first the Edmund Fitzgerald went down and lake superior and we implied well Scott did that it sank in lake Michigan

0:28.0

I believe which was pointing which will just for the record. I just want to put it really

0:32.0

I can't remember if I said it was Michigan or here on so now we're gonna get more emails about how no

0:36.2

We said it sank in lake here on I know

0:38.0

I know it's we probably didn't get that right

0:40.0

But what we went to say is that all those lakes are great

0:42.5

Yes, they are yeah, and it sank in one of those so

0:45.9

But it was one of those slip ups that sometimes happen when we get very conversational and when we're having fun

0:51.0

Which most of you probably 60% really enjoy about the show and away from our fact check out lines

0:57.3

So that sometimes happens so rest easy

0:59.9

Michiganers and naval lore experts. Yes, but special thanks to listeners hk

1:04.6

Carly Grim and Steve Lito for bringing that faux pas to our attention and also for being downright nice about it

1:10.9

We picked up a lot of new listeners in the past few weeks and we want to say thank you so much for checking us out

1:15.1

Please tell your friends about us. Yes, and visit our store at astonishing legends.com

1:19.8

Where we have an abundance of t-shirts hats stickers and other stuff or you can check us out at patreon.com

1:26.0

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1:31.7

Okay, little hand says time to rock and roll

1:48.5

Welcome back to astonishing legends. I'm Scott Philbrook and this is Forrest Burgess and Richard Hadam

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