I ate at a hot stone place around Pukaki once, some random restaurant inside a hotel in the middle of nowhere, that blew me away. Just raw beef, a 1000 degree rock, and salt to taste and it was like a top 10 lifetime meal.
We also talk about Bill & Ted, Die Hard 2, Demon Knight, and his latest flick, The Yeti. The full episode can be found wherever you get your podcasts or directly through Apple at the link below:
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William Sadler is our guest on The Kingcast this week and we talk about a ton of his King work, from Shawshank to The Mist. Here's a tiny taste of wha the had to say about The Shawshank Redemption:
If I could be in NZ at this very precarious moment in time I would. Enjoy!
Me and @drewmcweeny.com are on our bullshit again. This one’s a favorite of mine and has a very interesting development story that we dive into on this commentary. Now chant it with me: “Satan is good. Satan is our pal.”
"The most important things are the hardest things to say."
That's the first line @wilwheaton.net reads in his new audio version of "The Body."
They were never more true than when the Stand By Me actor joined Rob Reiner's other performers at the Oscars in tribute to the late filmmaker.
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Listen to Martin. He is wise.
Also, keep listening after the chat for an exclusive 8 minute clip from Wil's new reading of The Body, courtesy of Simon & Schuster.
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@wilwheaton.net returns to The Kingcast to talk about his new audiobook narration of The Body, the 40th Anniversary of Stand By Me, his personal King fandom, and the impact the late, great Rob Reiner had on his life. Fair warning: this one gets emotional right out of the gate.
Stop worrying about what YA books to let your kids read and let them sort it out with V C Andrews and cocaine era Stephen King as God intended
Watched a good Aussie horror flick called Leviticus. It’s a queer take on It Follows that swaps sex for conversion therapy. While the message is a tad heavy-handed, Joe Bird (Talk to Me) and Stacy Clausen do a remarkable job carrying us through the love and horror. #sxsw
Saw the latest flick from Damian McCarthy, the director of the criminally underseen Oddity, at #sxsw last night. It’s called Hokum and takes place in a spooky Irish hotel and once again shows that McCarthy understands suspense and tension better than most genre filmmakers.
Wait, your middle name is David? D for David? That’s my middle name, too. What is this tomfoolery? Is this The Matrix?
Latest #sxsw flick: Pizza Movie starring Gaten Matarazzo, Sean Giambrone, & Lulu Wilson, made by the BriTANicK guys. Imagine the tripping balls sequence from 21 Jump Street but the whole movie. I thought it was hilarious, but I admittedly have the sense of humor of a rowdy 9 year old.
Over Your Dead Body - latest from Jorma Taccone is an absolute blast. Jason Segel and Samara Weaving go to an isolated cabin with plans to kill each other and that’s as normal as the movie gets. Chaotic comedy that somehow is more gory than Evil Dead. Right up my alley.
Yeah. I guess my invitation to join the cast of Ready Or Not 2 got lost in the mail.
I liked the first Ready or Not a lot and I feel like Ready or Not 2 matches the original’s comic energy while expanding the lore in a satisfying way. The new additions to the cast all rock. Bonus points for casting Cronenberg in a pivotal role and for the Wood/Hatosy Faculty reunion.
Just offhand mentions of his friendship and how much he attributes Jaws’ success to him.
I don’t get it either. Same with Dungeons and Dragons. Massive crowd-pleasers that just didn’t make the leap to an event.
I’d guess it’s just not ready, but who knows?
Nope, just a chat with the man and the trailer that everyone can see. I’m not mad at it.
Sean did a great job. He made it look easy.
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Disclosure Day began life as a 50 page treatment that Spielberg wrote in 2023 and David Koepp went off and wrote a script so good that Spielberg didn’t want a co-writer credit, which is why he has only a Story By credit on it.
Spielberg was asked what film of his he feels is underseen and primed for rediscovery and he chose Always.
Spielberg teased that he’s developing a western for him to direct and “it kicks ass.” Also said he wants to shoot in Texas, which has been lucky for him as the place he screens his films for the first time and got his shot with Sugarland Express.
Spielberg has a 70mm print of Lawrence of Arabia that he got as a gift from the head of Columbia after he oversaw the restoration and he screens it before directing a film “to keep me humble because I can never be as good as David Lean.”
When asked what his most joyful time was making movies, Spielberg said ET because it inspired him to want to be a father and The Fabelmans because it was $40m worth of therapy “that Dreamworks and Amblin paid for.”
Spielberg put Instagram on his phone for two weeks and it ate up so much of his time that he uninstalled it and is completely disconnected from social media.
Spielberg is very annoyed that alien life hasn’t contacted him. “Forget the third kind, I haven’t had a close encounter of the first or second kind!”
