"We made this movie to be on the big screen": Director Jon Chu Bets On a Post-Pandemic Hollywood

Inside the Hive

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🗓️ 22 May 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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On this week’s episode, Joe Hagan talks to Crazy Rich Asians director Jon Chu and film editor Myron Kerstein to discuss the wrenching decision to push their new tent-pole film, the Lin Manuel Miranda musical In the Heights, to summer 2021 instead of opening on a streaming service. With movie production in Hollywood halted, studios and the producers, directors, actors and film crews they employ are groping for answers as to how films get made again, where their next paychecks will come from, and whether audiences will ever return to theaters in the numbers they once did. Jon Chu is betting that theater-goers will come back once the crisis has passed: "I have to believe in that. I can't give up. I can't give up on that dream. And so our job is to give reasons for it to exist." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Inside the Hive. This is Joe Hagen. I'm here with Emily Jane Fox. Hello,
0:07.0	Emily.
0:08.0	Hello. Good morning, Los Angeles time.
0:11.0	What a morning it is. You've already received a call first thing this morning and who was that call from?
0:16.0	Well, it's a big day in High World. Michael Cohen has been released from prison.
0:22.0	Michael Cohen, a hive favorite, a long time subject of mine, and he is now officially home after serving just a little bit more than a year in federal prison in Otisville, New York.
0:38.0	And he, I spoke to him this morning, not long after he got home and I think it's been a real trip.
0:47.9	I think going to prison is what it is. And I think coming home from prison is a whole other animal. I think that
0:58.0	for the last month or so he's been in solitary confinement. And it was in part because he was quarantining
1:07.4	when the Department of Justice decided
1:09.8	that people in prisons and the prison in Otisville decided that its inmates were not
1:17.0	safe to be there because of the coronavirus. They started quarantining people and the way
1:21.1	they did it at least for Michael Cohen was that he was put in solitary confinement.
1:25.2	Now while he was quarantining there the Department of Justice and Bureau of Prison
1:31.6	changed the way that they were going to let people out.
1:35.6	So Michael, for our time, was supposed to get out
1:37.6	at the beginning of May.
1:38.8	And then the Department of Justice rolled that back.
1:42.1	And so he just stayed in solitary confinement because he
1:45.8	went back into the regular prison population that he would have to quarantine again
1:50.2	once he was eventually going to be let out for another 14 days and that's a long time to be in solitary confinement.
1:58.0	He was quarantined within the quarantine.
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