Bonus Interview with Roger Corman

Blockbuster

Epicleff

Tv & Film, Drama, Film History, Fiction

5 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Bonus Interview. BLOCKBUSTER series creator Matt Schrader asks legendary producer and Academy Award honoree Roger Corman about James Cameron's rapid rise through New World Pictures in the 1980s, and about his disappointment with James being fired from Piranha II. 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 of Blockbuster.
0:08.9	We're here today in the Office of Roger Corman, one of the most influential producers to
0:13.5	ever work in Hollywood, responsible for so many films over 400 of them.
0:18.4	And for giving so many huge new Hollywood names, they're start.
0:22.6	Jack Nicholson, Mark Scorsese, Francis Ford, Copolo, Ron Howard, and of course from our
0:28.0	story, people like Gail Ann Hurr, Jamie Horner, and James Cameron.
0:32.7	And in addition, Roger has been presented by the Academy with an honorary Oscar for
0:37.2	his lifetime work, inspiring so many people, including filmmakers you never worked with,
0:42.8	that have grown up on your films.
0:44.6	The one and only Roger Corman, thanks for doing this.
0:47.1	Happy to be here.
0:48.1	So there's so many pieces about parts of your life.
0:52.2	And I just re-watched Corman's World, the documentary from a few years ago, which tells
0:57.8	much of your early life story.
1:00.4	But I really wanted to ask you about the mid-1970s and there's all this change happening,
1:06.4	jaws and star wars, the Blockbuster era is starting to take over.
1:11.0	How did that trend affect films that you were making at the time?
1:15.1	I know there was a threat.
1:16.7	There was a threat.
1:17.7	It was not only a threat, it was a reality.
1:21.5	I and my contemporaries were making low-budget films on various subjects, including horror,
1:28.5	science fiction, and so forth.
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