Speak No Evil Makes Fascinating Adaptation Choices, Plus Interviews With James McAvoy and Director James Watkins
/Film Weekly
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4.4 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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On the September 13, 2024 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film editor BJ Colangelo to talk about James Watkins’ American remake Speak No Evil, and present interviews with James Watkins and star James McAvoy.
In Our Feature Presentation: Speak No Evil Review: A Modern Horror Classic Gets Americanized – And It Works For Once
- General thoughts
- Spoilers
- How this compares to the original movie
- Speak No Evil interviews
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone welcome to slash film daily today's Friday September 13th |
| 0:03.3 | 2024 on today's episode of the show we're going to be talking about James |
| 0:06.4 | Watkins American remake Speak No Evil and we'll present interviews with James |
| 0:10.7 | Watkins and star James MacAvoy. |
| 0:12.8 | My name is Ben Pearson. |
| 0:13.8 | I'm an editor at slash film.com |
| 0:15.4 | and I'm joined on today's episode by slash film editor, |
| 0:17.4 | B.J. Colangelo. |
| 0:18.5 | Hi, hi, hi. |
| 0:20.4 | All right, B.J. |
| 0:20.8 | This movie is a remake of a Danish film directed by Christian Taffdrup that came out just two years ago. |
| 0:26.4 | I have not seen that. You have, and you're going to tell me all about the differences between the two later in this conversation. |
| 0:31.8 | But I just think it's... The fact that I haven't seen the original |
| 0:34.4 | and therefore don't have anything to compare this to |
| 0:36.9 | might be necessary context for my reaction to this movie. |
| 0:39.9 | So let's get into some general thoughts |
| 0:42.3 | before we delve into spoilers. |
| 0:43.6 | BJ, what did you think about the 2024 version of Speak No Evil? |
| 0:47.9 | So I admittedly was very, very skeptical going into it because the original film is such a specific brand of bleakness and |
| 0:56.3 | with it coming out as quickly as it did after the original |
| 1:00.8 | There's always that I think knee-jerk reaction oh, this is going to be a cheap cash grab, |
| 1:05.3 | it's just going to be, you know, a shot-for-shot remake, and, you know, what could they possibly do here |
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