TODD KOMARNICKI | Bringing Bonhoeffer to the Big Screen (Ep. 678)

Undaunted.Life: A Man's Podcast by Kyle Thompson

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 19 November 2024

⏱️ 74 minutes

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In this episode, we welcome Todd Komarnicki to the show. He is a film director, producer, and screenwriter. He wrote the film Sully which starred Tom Hanks and was directed by Clint Eastwood and was a producer on the Christmas classic Elf which starred Will Ferrell and was directed by Jon Favreau. He also wrote, directed, and produced a new film with Angel Studios called Bonhoeffer based on the life of pastor-turned-spy-turned-would-be-assassin Dietrich Bonhoeffer. In this interview, we discuss what drew him to the world of filmmaking, the difference between having a passion for filmmaking and writing versus making it a successful career, the long process of getting movies like Elf and Sully made, why they had such a hard time getting movie studios to believe in Will Ferrell as a big movie lead, how he ended up working with Clint Eastwood and Tom Hanks, what drew him to the story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s life, how he found the perfect actor to portray Bonhoeffer and the crazy story of what made Jonas Dassler sign on to the project, what he is working on now, and much more. Let’s get into it… Episode notes and links HERE. Donate to support our mission of equipping men to push back darkness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:57.3	All right guys, you've got a special guest on the podcast today. His name is Todd Comernicki.
1:00.8	So he is a film director, producer, and screenwriter. And the cool thing about this particular
1:05.8	interview is I've talked to a few guys that are kind of in this world and only a few of them on the show,
1:11.6	but this dude is a tremendous storyteller. And so that's really what this entire podcast is today,
1:17.6	because really the focus of this is his new film that is out, guys, this Friday. That is Bonhoeffer.
1:23.0	That is the Bonhofer movie that's made about Dietrich Bonhofer that's being put out by Angel Studios
1:27.5	that is in theaters this weekend. And I know there's a lot of great films that are coming out
1:31.3	over the next couple of weeks. We talk about that, but there's something very different and
1:35.1	very interesting about the feel of this movie. But we start the interview with like, okay, well,
1:39.0	you know, how do you get this artistic bend to push you towards the film industry and writing and different things like
1:45.0	that. What's the difference between just, you know, having that as a goal, but then actually
1:48.8	maybe doing that, you know, the difference between, oh, that's kind of nice, but then actually
1:52.3	running it as a career. And so we break into all of that. But this is a guide that's worked on some
1:56.9	incredible films that most of you would know. So 2016, I believe it was Sully, starring Tom Hanks and
2:02.8	was directed by Clint Eastwood. He was a producer on that film. And then Elf, which is probably
2:07.3	other than Die Hard, my favorite Christmas movie, it's like that, die hard, Home Alone. Those are the
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