'The Big Picture' — Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour (Ep. 386)

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🗓️ 22 November 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Ringer editor-in-chief Sean Fennessey sits down with director Joe Wright to discuss how he picked himself up after the failure of his 2015 film, ‘Pan,’ to deliver ‘Darkest Hour,’ a Winston Churchill biopic that stars a mesmerizing Gary Oldman. Plus: Wright discusses the changing state of the movie business and why he took the reins on an episode of ‘Black Mirror.’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Made a film called Pan, which had lost about $100 million, and I was suffering my own
0:06.2	crisis of confidence and doubt in what I was doing and capable of doing, and I felt
0:12.1	like giving up.
0:13.4	And then this script came across my desk.
0:15.6	I'm Sean Fennesy, editor and chief of the ringer, and this is the big picture.
0:25.2	Winston Churchill once said,
0:26.7	The history will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
0:29.8	You could say the same for Joe Wright, the filmmaker behind Pride and Prejudice, and
0:34.0	a Karenina atonement in other films.
0:36.3	His new film is about Churchill.
0:37.8	It's called Darkest Hour.
0:39.4	It's a very serious, very stormy look at one month in Churchill's life in 1940.
0:44.5	And it's an interesting film for Wright because he's coming off of what was considered
0:47.8	his least successful film 2015's Pan.
0:50.9	And he used that moment after that failure to recalibrate.
0:54.2	He made an episode of the TV show Black Mirror, and then he pondered on what he was going
0:58.1	to do next, and he saw some inspiration in Churchill.
1:01.1	So without further ado, here's my conversation with Joe Wright.
1:04.4	I'm very pleased to be joined by Joe Wright today.
1:15.4	Joe, thanks for coming in.
1:16.6	My absolute pleasure.
1:18.2	Joe, you have a new film.
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