April 17, 2017
EP. 176 — How We’d Fix These 4 Broken Franchises
Big news! This summer, Hollywood is delivering us our 6th Spiderman movie in the last 15 years. Fun! Time to re-hash all of our favorite story beats like dead uncles, having great responsibilities and kissing upside-down.
So yeah, it seems like for the nth summer in a row, the great minds in the Hollywood dream factory are officially out of ideas. Our question is: why? When there are so many amazing stories from real life or incredible works that have yet to be adapted, why another Transformers?
This is an issue only the After Hours crew (sans Michael) can figure out. On this week’s episode, Jack O’Brien is joined by Soren Bowie, Daniel O’Brien and Katie Willert to fix reboots, throw out adaptations and pitch unbelievable real stories that would make for incredible movies, if only Hollywood had the balls to produce them.
Footnotes:
Article: Cracked 5 Really Awesome Movies Hidden Inside Really Crappy Movies: https://goo.gl/gZliXV
Article: LA Times: Zankou Chicken’s Tragic Family Rift Impedes Chain’s Growth: https://goo.gl/xz1SXG
Podcast: Radiolab: Outside Westgate: https://goo.gl/kp2hP9 (about Nairobi terror attacks in mall – soren talks about)
Book: Jennet Conant: The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington: https://goo.gl/3GJoqe
Book: F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Diamond as Big as the Ritz: https://goo.gl/C6nQ7E
Podcast: The Dollop: Lobotomy: https://goo.gl/xSBkQr
Article: LA Times: Colonel Griffith J. Griffith, One of LA’s More Colorful Figures: https://goo.gl/P4k3H
Book: Bonar Menninger: Mortal Error: The Shot That Killed JFK: https://goo.gl/8xN2Dd
Documentary: JFK: The Smoking Gun: https://goo.gl/hTWyy7
Article: The New Yorker: Bill James, True-Crime Obsessive, On The Genre’s Enduring Importance: https://goo.gl/Z8zhe4
Book: Bill James: Popular Crime: https://goo.gl/9vuTiM
Article: Cracked: 5 Insane ‘What If’ Scenarios That Almost Changed Everything: https://goo.gl/irzui9
Article: New York Times: LBJ’s Bravado and a Secret Service Under Scrutiny: https://goo.gl/JzmaiU
Book: L.A. Meyer: Bloody Jack: https://goo.gl/GeCQPM
Book: Brain Jacques: Redwall: https://goo.gl/AXfiaa
Article: Smithsonian Magazine: The Heiress to a Gun Empire Built a Mansion Forever Haunted by the Blood Money that Built It: https://goo.gl/oJGQuq
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