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Neil McDonough is such an awful horrible human being. God knows.

Right.

Right.

Go ahead. You can let it out on the podcast.

Welcome to Syncast, presented by CinemaSense.

All right, everybody. Welcome to The Syncast. This is Chris Atkinson from CinemaSense, joined by Jonathan Watkins.

Hello, hello.

And today we have a very special guest to this director and co-writer of a movie called Apex.

Edward Drake is here to talk with us about that. The movie is in theaters, VOD, and digital on November 12.

Edward, welcome.

Thank you, Chris and Jonathan. Pleasure to be here. I'm a big fan of the podcast.

I love the episode that you guys did with Richard Kelly on Donny Dawkinson.

Yeah, man, he was a great guest. You never know what you're going to get a lot of time to somebody who's made something that famous and everything.

And he was, he was absolutely a joy to talk to. And I'm glad that you like our podcast and everything.

So, yeah, that's a, I love here. I love to hear that. I love to hear good things about us.

So, I know that there are, I mean, you know, I know that there's a direct inspiration for Apex, but tell me what your inspiration was for this movie.

I wanted to make a movie where I could get Mr. Willis to say, I'm eggs and bacon on a Sunday morning.

That's what it seemed like to me. It seemed like a very standout line in that, in this movie to me.

Well, I'm only half joking, though. I was around with Corey. And here I were savoring the chat about what was up next.

We were wondering what, what is a story that could be shot safely during COVID?

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