Hey everybody, before we get started with the episode, Amy and I want to give you a disclaimer.

We recorded this episode about a week ago and some things have changed since we've actually recorded.

Time moves fast in 2019.

I know what really does, especially around this show.

Well, first of all, we lost a film producing legend in Robert Evans,

who is so closely tied to the godfather, the first two films.

I mean, he's just an amazing guy.

If you've ever seen the kid stays in the picture, he's also a hilarious personality.

The movie about his life, the kid stays in the picture is probably never going to make it on the A

if I talk 100, but it sounds like it's a week where it's worth a watch.

I think you are exactly right.

And last week, we also talked about Francis Ford Copeland, his opinion about Marvel films.

Since then, he has amended his comments in an interview yesterday with Deadline's co-editor

and chief Mike Fleming Jr. He kind of walked back his comments to something that I actually

really agree with.

He says, I don't like the idea of franchises.

The notion that you can keep on repeating what is essentially the same movie for financial gain.

In other words, what is a formulaic approach.

I feel like that is taken to reduce the economic risk factor of movies.

And I feel like the risk factor is an element that makes movies something to be great.

And also the formulaic film draws the most available resources to them,

leaving little for more daring productions and reducing diversity.

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