Welcome ladies and gentlemen to Story Break, the Writers Room Podcast, where three Hollywood pros have one hour to turn

a humble idea into cinematic gold.

I am one of your hosts, and boy who's been looking at Excel spreadsheets all week,

Freddie Wong.

I'm Will Campos and I'm a screenwriter.

I'm Matthew Arnold and I'm a miniature painter first and foremost and a writer-director second.

I would say for miniature painter first second and third in your life Matt.

That's how it is.

Yeah, anyway, boy, I'm like I should kind of say it's excited for this one because we were, I guess it's a little bit inspired by the fact that we all went this weekend and we saw the foreigner.

Yes.

With Jackie Chan, which I was, you know, I was really looking forward to, if I'm to be totally honest like it's been in so long

like rumble in the Bronx I remember seeing for the first time when I was like in was it middle school even like it was like around that time

and I remember put it into the chopper and it

fucked me up. The guy gets put into the guy gets put into like a wood chopper.

You guys don't like one of those branch choppers? Like a wood chipper? Yeah, chipper I guess that's what's called. A wood chipper. That really messed me up and

they jacked you up. Yeah, I was like every time I drove I still drive past those and think about that. I have this bad way to go. I have this theory about Jackie Chan movies I went and said they there was a

Triple feature they did at the Egyptian for Beyond Fest and Jackie showed up and the energy in the crowd was really remarkable and my theory is this because it's essentially like when he comes into the room every single adult turns into a child like you all just turn into kids and I think basically you revert to the age that you first saw a Jackie Chan movie.

Like it just sucks you back to that age

because it was like I was in a room full of like grown-ass adults

acting like five-year-olds just losing their minds and asking the

dumbest questions like the last question the night was someone asked me if he

could do some cool kicks for us and I was like are you kidding me?

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