Episode 4: Back to Basics

Blockbuster

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Tv & Film, Drama, Film History, Fiction

5 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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An up-and-coming Ridley Scott decides on a film that will revolutionize science fiction horror. James pitches The Terminator, and meets bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger. 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	Hey, what don't wake up previously on blockbuster get the bikes hey
0:08.0	Dad's gonna kill me James Francis I'm getting what you asked for no you are not Jim. This is not working out
0:16.6	James
0:18.6	What me no no no no no come on
0:22.7	Come on Jim
0:30.0	This is a dream you had that's not really a story. I want to direct it
0:34.2	You know, there's a bad idea, okay? It's time to look for another career dad
0:40.3	I know you think I'm making a mistake. Don't business, but I need to see this through I met Schrader and blockbuster starts now
0:55.9	Memorial Day weekend
0:58.8	Just days ago a dejected George Lucas sat in a diner on Hollywood Boulevard
1:03.8	Unaware his film Star Wars was playing across the street at the Chinese theater and
1:08.9	22-year-old James Cameron and his friends had come to that theater to see the film
1:13.3	Today among those lined up along the Hollywood Walk of Fame is an up-and-coming English director Ridley Scott
1:20.1	This is unbelievable for a matinee look at these costumes. I suppose they're characters in the film. I have to assume
1:28.5	Ridley was here with his producer David Putnam who'd scored tickets to a sold out two o'clock screening
1:33.9	Ridley had just premiered his first film the dualists at the con film festival and was nominated for the festival's grand prize
1:42.4	He was riding high and before screening his film in Los Angeles
1:46.0	He had a few hours to see this sure to be campy Star Wars movie that was causing such a stir
1:51.7	Oh right there those seats in the middle
1:55.2	As everyone filled into the theater Ridley and his producer got the perfect seats eighth row center
2:05.3	This auditorium felt alive like an enormous roller coaster ride
2:12.4	From the first frames of the film's enormous space cruiser in the beginning of the film
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