Shane Black: The Nice Guys

The Treatment

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4.6 • 639 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

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After 13 years of various attempts at telling the "nice guys" story, director Shane Black joins Elvis Mitchell to talk about finding the right medium for the buddy cop film The Nice Guys.

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0:00.0	On To the Point, we try to make sense of the policy debates and the political sideshows on the campaign trail.
0:05.8	You have this kind of asymmetrical warfare coming from a guy who's great at a soundbite, lousy at an answer.
0:11.4	Are you looking for your own billionaire?
0:13.2	Nope. No, I don't want my own billionaire. I'm going to raise the vast majority of the money.
0:17.0	Race yourself America for what?
0:19.3	King Trump.
0:21.1	I'm Warren Alney.
0:22.1	To the Point has you covered for the 2016 campaign.
0:25.2	Find the To the Point podcast on KCRW's iTunes page.
0:30.2	From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's the treatment. It's The Treatment.
0:45.5	Welcome to The Treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell.
0:46.5	It was probably 30 years ago this year that lethal weapon first began shooting.
0:51.2	My guest, Shane Black, we know from the Last Boy Scout and Iron Man 3 and many other
0:58.2	films. His newest film as writer-director, I should also say one of my favorite films
1:02.3	of the last decade, Kiss Kiss, Kiss, Bang, which is his first film as writer-director. His newest film
1:06.8	is writer-director is, of course, the nice guy. Shane, first of all, welcome so much to. Thanks for being here.
1:11.9	I've known you for a while, and I've just been looking for a good opportunity to come in.
1:15.1	This is terrific.
1:15.9	It's good for me, too.
1:16.9	Give the audience a little taste of what the nice guys is.
1:19.5	It's set in 1978.
1:21.2	Yeah, it's interesting.
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