Ruben Fleischer, Our Close Friend

Hollywood Handbook

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Comedy

4.8 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

The Boys bring director Ruben Fleischer (Zombieland, Gangster Squad, Venom) on the show to pitch him a potential crossover for his new film, Now You See Me: Now You Don't.

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0:00.0	This is a Headgum podcast.
0:10.0	Jay Daniel Atlas.
0:13.0	Merritt McKinney, Jack Wildner,
0:17.0	Henley Reeves.
0:23.7	To convince yourself that you can
0:26.2	dictate
0:29.2	the behavior, the fortunes of these characters
0:32.7	better known as the uncontrollable
0:34.5	better known as the Four Horsemen.
0:36.0	Yes, the four horsemen.
0:38.2	The protagonists of the Now You See Me franchise.
0:41.3	Hmm, let me, let me, let me just, let me just try to take chaos itself, embodied in human form.
0:51.4	Yes, four humans, four nice looking humans. Four nice-looking humans.
0:55.1	And I'll just tell them what to do, right?
0:58.4	I'll direct them.
1:02.2	How fucking insane do you have to be to make that choice?
1:06.0	And you think to yourself, like, oh, these are played by actors.
1:08.8	I'm used to working with actors.
1:10.8	Not with these roles. It's a little different. these are played by actors. I'm used to working with actors. Not with these roles.
1:12.3	It's a little different.
1:13.5	Play the actor when you're talking about.
1:17.3	Merritt McKinney, Henley Reeves, Jack Wilder.
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