Jump to content
🔒 The Earwolf Forums are closed Read more... ×
Sign in to follow this  
JulyDiaz

Episode 176 - How We'd Fix These 4 Broken Franchises

Recommended Posts

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

Share this post


Link to post
Sign in to follow this  

×