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What Taika Waititi’s Films Tells Us About His Star Wars Movie, The White Lotus, Dark City, Venom, Shang-Chi, Ryan Murphy & More

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🗓️ 13 August 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

On the August 13, 2021 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editorial director Peter Sciretta is joined by senior writer Ben Pearson to discuss the latest film and tv news, including Taika Waititi’s Star Wars movie, The White Lotus, Dark City, Venom, Shang-Chi, Ryan Murphy and more. In The News:  Peter (og Jeremy): Taika Waititi Teases His ‘Star Wars’ Movie: “It Feels Very Me”What makes a Taika Waititi movie? Ben (og Shania): FX Orders New Ryan Murphy Anthology Shows ‘American Love Story’ and ‘American Sports Story’ Peter (og Shania): HBO Renews ‘The White Lotus’ for a Second Season with a New Getaway Ben: ‘Stranger Things’ Spin-Offs Might Be in the Cards Ben (og Joshua): ‘Dark City’ Director Alex Proyas is Working on TV Version of the 1998 Cult Classic Peter (og Chris): Here We Go Again: ‘Venom: Let There Be Carnage’ Release Date Moves To October Peter (og Danielle): ‘Shang-Chi’ Not Going to Disney+ Premier Access as Disney Doubles Down on Theatrical Ben (og Eric): AMC Reaches Deal With Warner Bros for 45 Day Theatrical Window in 2022Mention: A Guide to Each Hollywood Studio’s Theatrical Windows   Also mentioned:      All the other stuff you need to know: You can find more about all the stories we mentioned on today’s show at slashfilm.com, and linked inside the show notes. /Film Daily is published every weekday, bringing you the most exciting news from the world of movies and television as well as deeper dives into the great features from slashfilm.com.  You can subscribe to /Film Daily on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify and all the popular podcast apps (RSS).  Send your feedback, questions, comments and concerns to us at peter@slashfilm.com. Please leave your name and general geographic location in case we mention the e-mail on the air. Please rate and review the podcast on Apple Podcasts, tell your friends and spread the word!  Thanks to Sam Hume for our logo. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to slash film daily for Friday, August 13th, 2021 on today's

0:07.5

episode.

0:08.5

We're going to discuss the latest film and TV news.

0:11.1

This slash film editorial director Peter Sorretta,

0:13.2

and joining me on to his podcast is

0:14.4

senior writer, Ben Pearson.

0:16.7

Hey, what's going on?

0:18.4

Okay, so we haven't done a news episode in like a week, and

0:21.4

it's not because we had better things to do it.

0:24.1

The news has been kind of slow around here. I think everybody's on their

0:28.4

summer vacations or something in Hollywood. But we do have a week worth of news to get to so let's uh let's talk about it.

0:36.4

First of all let's let's leave with Star Wars because a lot of people like to hear about Star Wars

0:41.1

and I like talking about Star Wars and Tecwa TT obviously has

0:46.8

signed on to do a Star Wars movie.

0:49.4

We know that that was announced last year or was the year before. It was announced at some point during the pandemic through like some kind of

0:57.6

live stream and recently he's been doing some interviews he been interviewed by Wired,

1:05.0

Wired did this like long profile on him.

1:07.7

We don't really know much about this movie,

1:09.1

but this is what he told Wired.

1:10.8

They asked about the project, and said it's still in the exterior space stage. But we've got a story. I'm really excited by it because it feels very me. Now for those of you who have never read a

1:26.2

screenplay or tried to write a screenplay I think what he means by the

1:29.2

e.X. space is that's kind of like the slug line that you enter the script.

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