Bonus Interview with Bill Wisher (Pt. 1) + Xenogenesis

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Tv & Film, Drama, Film History, Fiction

5 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Bonus Interview. BLOCKBUSTER series creator Matt Schrader asks James Cameron friend and screenwriter Bill Wisher about their early interests and motivations, and about starring in James and Randy Frakes' short film Xenogenesis. This award-winning 10-part original miniseries stars Ross Marquand (The Walking Dead, Avengers: Endgame) as up-and-coming writer-director James Cameron, and tells the story of how he fought through decades of personal struggles and career setbacks to assemble the most expensive and grueling movie production of all-time, Titanic, that nearly sank two film studios. If you enjoyed BLOCKBUSTER, please consider a small donation to help the creators continue making this series at http://GetBlockbuster.com/support and receive bonus perks, and your name in the credits! Facebook: http://facebook.com/BlockbusterPod Twitter: http://twitter.com/Blockbuster_Pod Instagram: http://instagram.com/blockbusterpod Follow series creator @MattSchrader on Twitter 🏆 BLOCKBUSTER is now an award-winning podcast! Winner of Adweek's Creative Podcast of the Year, two NYF Radio Awards, and Webby Awards Honoree for Best Miniseries. Thanks in advance for sharing BLOCKBUSTER with a friend! To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Matt Schrader and this is a special bonus interview episode.
0:08.3	You just heard the start of this season and all season long we'll be having bonus conversation
0:13.2	with some of the people central to the story of James Cameron.
0:16.7	And right now I'm sitting here in the scenic backyard patio here of Bill Wischer, actually
0:22.2	William Wischer, Jr. can I call you Bill?
0:25.0	Please do.
0:26.0	And I actually don't even use the junior anymore.
0:28.2	My dad's William, I'm Bill.
0:29.5	Yeah, exactly.
0:30.5	Well, I actually, I have a question about your dad because I know he for a short stint
0:34.3	was an actor.
0:35.3	So we'll come back to that in just a moment, but I want to just introduce you.
0:39.8	Bill was a classmate and great friend of James Cameron in those early years, 1970s and
0:44.8	80s, especially as James was just starting to, you know, starting his climb as a filmmaker.
0:50.9	And Bill went on to become an incredibly successful writer.
0:55.5	He wrote on the terminator as well as we'll visit later in the series.
0:59.6	And also he co-wrote terminator too, judgment day with Jim.
1:03.4	He's also the writer of films like Judge Dread, 13th Warrior, Exorcist, the beginning, a
1:08.4	whole slew of others.
1:09.7	Yeah, I spent several years in the 90s as a kind of a script doctor.
1:16.2	I did die hard, three in the die hard four and broken arrow.
1:21.4	And so I developed a reputation for being too dumb to be scared.
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