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Yes. a dumb, I'm done making dumb jokes. You make cool movies. Thank you. Let's talk about them. You're

here to promote Warcraft. Yes. That's your newest movie. When you hear this, you will go see

Warcraft in a theater. A bunch of people who listen to this podcast will know your first movie as well.

That was Moon. That's correct, with Sam Rockwell, the local boy, local boy done good.

And there was one in between that.

Source code with Jake Gyllenhaal.

So I want to talk about that entire sort of history. I want to talk about how you got into movies. Since your publicist is here, we should talk about Warcraft, which is very much unlike your other movies. It's a big movie. It's got orcs. It is. It is. It is. Special Effects. So coming as a guy who sort of made his bones,

who made an independent movie, now this thing, I assume, has a gigantic budget because there's a special effects.

What was that process?

And Beebe's attached.

And Beebe's attached.

She's not cheap.

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How did you end up making a giant, make a budget, universal pictures, special effects?

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