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I'm Sean Fennesy and this is the big picture, a conversation show about spiderhead.

A movie that exists. Have you heard of this Netflix blockbuster science fiction adventure film starring Chris Hemsworth and Miles Teller directed by Top Gun Maverick filmmaker Joseph Kaczynski now available to watch?

Well, if you haven't, you can check it out right now. And you can listen to my chat with the screenwriters of that film, Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick.

They also wrote Zombieland, they also wrote Deadpool. They're some of the most successful screenwriters in all of Hollywood.

I hope you'll stick around for that conversation. They're really cool guys.

But first, let's talk about spiderhead, big movie this weekend joining me to do so as the spider daddy. It's Chris Ryan. I Chris.

Sean, have you ever committed to a bit so hard and then found yourself like boxed in by the bit?

Yeah. Well, let's give some context for the bit you've been boxed into, which is the way back on July 18th, 2021.

We had a movie auction on the big picture. And Chris, you spent some of your movie capital on a movie that was then known as Escape from the World.

You spent $80 on this movie, site unseen. It's been an ongoing bit that this movie doesn't exist. It does. We've seen it.

And how are you feeling about the movie you bid on?

I think this is what guys who bought GameStop last year would have felt like if GameStop wound up being like a pretty thoughtful normal company.

You know, like they were like, I'm buying this crazy meme stock. Like screw everything. Like, like, let's set the money on fire.

And then they get to like, what if you just found it? They were like, yeah, we have a really good plan to expand franchises.

And we think brick and mortar is going to make a comeback after COVID. And it was just like GameStop's here.

That's how I feel about spiderhead. Like this is I had been so over committed to the idea of this movie being terrible or insane or a masterpiece.

And it turns out Joseph Kaczynski just made like a really solid movie.

Yeah, it's a little hard to get over excited about it because it's it's good. It is a good movie.

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