Special Report: Future Shock - The Story of 2000 AD (2014)

The Projection Booth Podcast

The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2017

⏱️ 134 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Britain's ground-breaking 2000 AD comic introduced a raft of vital artists and writers along with indelible characters like Judge Dredd, Halo Jones, Strontium Dog, and more. The documentary Future Shock! The Story of 2000 AD (2014) tells the story of the ups and downs of this influential work.
Director Paul Goodwin and producer Sean Hogan discuss the creation of Future Shock!.
Josh Hadley joins Mike to reminisce about comics and the film adaptations of various 2000 AD stories.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-projection-booth-podcast--5513239/support.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.
0:04.6	Christopher Media. Let's make some noise. People thought we were going to be rather nice and middle class, and boy, were they in for a shop.
0:31.8	People tend to think of comics as being very kind of throwaway entertainment, but this was some deep political stuff.
0:37.5	2018 was something radically
0:39.3	different from anything that had been
0:41.2	done before. They were sort of glorious
0:43.2	hippie anarchist. They would do it better
0:45.2	than the American couplets. This isn't like
0:47.1	Spider-Man. It was dangerous.
0:49.4	For a nine-year-old boy, it was life-changing.
0:51.6	You don't want something your teacher likes.
0:53.2	Jesus, throw it out of the fucking window.
0:54.9	I don't know what it was if everybody was just on rave drugs.
1:06.7	2000, he's never really gone for sort of the traditional Hollywood Disney group.
1:10.6	It gave creative people the chance we do anything.
1:13.6	There wouldn't be a vertigo if there wasn't 2008.
1:15.6	It's an enormously strong visual influence.
1:17.6	I think it's also a very strong subversive influence.
1:20.6	Fuck all that punk rock left-wing shit. I am really pumped.
1:23.6	We were driving it further and further towards the edge.
1:29.9	We were the lunatics who were taken over the asylum.
1:31.4	We got it right at the beginning.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Projection Booth, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of The Projection Booth and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.