From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.

Welcome to the treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell. The last time we saw my guest, Tim Storer,

he was introduced us to Galactus and the Silver Surfer for Fantastic Four.

He's been busy in those years ever since.

And doing the thing I think that he does as well as anybody,

which is to take bigger than life personalities and put them in a room together

and see what happens when there's friction from that.

We can see that really applies in the best ways to think like a man, the write-along films,

and his newest movie as director, Shaft.

So, Tim, good to have you back.

Hey, thanks for having me.

But that is what you do.

I mean, I can go back to that idea of, I mean, going back to one of us tripped, the idea of that being one person who's bigger than everybody else and how everybody else responds to that, that's really a lot of what you do as a storyteller, isn't it?

Yeah, well, I love, I love relationships. I think ultimately when we make films, especially the kind of films that I like to make, what happens in them, you know, we probably seen a car chase before. We probably seen a, probably seen a this before.

There's so much, and unless you're doing it on Avengers level, you know, there's not much we

haven't seen. So what I always, what I kind of like base my, I guess, my filmmaking existence

in is relationships. And that's what makes it different. That, you know, once you put,

you know, Sam Jackson in a car chase, it's different than anything. And if you lean on, you lean on

the personalities, you lean on the relationships and you can call back to relationships that you

might have set up earlier in the film, that's when I think the fun comes and that's when I think

it becomes something special.

It's interesting, but the relationships you're absolutely right about,

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