So! The co-perpetrator of Lost was given the directing gig on the new new Star Wars movie. Here's hoping Episode VII turns out more like the first two seasons of that show and nothing at all like any of the other seasons. The 'Lith and the Trap get into that news item and a bunch of other geek-chat standbys in this episode of A Little Snack. Discussed: JJ Abrams or The Only Man Who Can Direct Films for Culturally Important SciFi Properties, what Abrams' selection as the director of Episode VII implies about the current state of Hollywood, Abrams' unforgettable turn as maybe the pizza guy in a movie you saw once, why young people aren't as into Star Trek as they are in Star Wars, comic book artists, the Liefeld foot and where the Liefeld foot might have originated, how Bear Trap got swindled in a comic book trade and which books were involved, what a guy in his mid-thirties is supposed to do with his stash of early-90's comics, which comic Monolith would like to have framed, Die Hard as a franchise, the mistakes studios made when thinking about how to make Die Hard-like movies, how Monolith would resurrect the Die Hard franchise if someone gave him $50 million dollars to do the job, who Die Hard Five was made for, why The Shining continues to hold legions of movie geeks under its spell, how The Shining builds horror, why the casting was so important to its success, and a call for a deconstruction of The Shining to be written by a listener and submitted for the podcasters' review. You got out of this one with no Apple News. Enjoy it.
Show #64
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