4.6 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Most filmmakers hide for a while after a bomb, but not ‘Terminator: Dark Fate’ director Tim Miller. Miller tries to figure why audiences were not saying “I’ll be back”...for another Terminator movie. And he walks us through his career post-‘Deadpool,’ from departing ‘Deadpool 2’ to seizing what seemed like the opportunity of a lifetime--directing a Terminator movie with James Cameron producing.
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0:00.0 | From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is The Business. |
0:05.1 | Most filmmakers hide for a while after a bomb, but not Terminator Dark Fate director Tim Miller. |
0:11.3 | Following his movie's very disappointing opening, I asked him whether he thought he would ever work with producer James Cameron again. |
0:18.4 | No, but it has nothing to do with whatever trauma I have from the experience. |
0:23.2 | It's more that I just don't want to be in a situation again where I don't have the control |
0:29.3 | to do what I think is right. |
0:31.0 | Miller tries to figure why audiences were not saying I would be back for another Terminator |
0:35.7 | movie, and he walks us through his career post-Deadpool, |
0:39.4 | from departing Deadpool 2 before it started shooting, |
0:42.1 | to seizing what seemed like the opportunity of a lifetime, |
0:45.3 | directing a Terminator movie with Cameron producing. |
0:48.5 | But first on the news banter, |
0:50.0 | the hazards of making movies based on real people. |
0:53.0 | Stay tuned. It's the business from KCRW. |
1:00.4 | I'm joined by my sidekick and banter, Matt Bellany of the Hollywood reporter. Hello, Matt. |
1:05.2 | Hi there. So what we are seeing right now is the hazard of doing films based on real life. And this has come up many times |
1:12.7 | in the past. I don't know why in certain cases, sometimes people take liberties, sometimes people |
1:17.6 | don't check properly. We're seeing both of those in two different films right now, the first one |
1:21.8 | being this Clint Eastwood movie, Richard Jewell, which just played for the Academy very successfully. |
1:27.1 | Our Academy analyst at the |
1:28.7 | Hollywood Reporter thinks this will have a big impact on the Oscar race. But in this movie, |
1:34.2 | Clint Eastwood creates a story in which a person who was real, Kathy Scruggs, a reporter at the |
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