Collider Connected

During our extended interview with veteran actor Joe Pantoliano, he shared some fantastic behind-the-scenes stories about the making the Bad Boys movies, Risky Business with Tom Cruise, and how he got cast in Empire of the Sun with Steven Spielberg.

Also, Pantoliano detailed the making of Richard Donner’s The Goonies, what it like reading The Matrix script for the first time and working with the Wachowskis on Bound, if he had any idea Christopher Nolan’s Memento would be so special, and working with James Gandolfini & David Chase on the landmark HBO series The Sopranos.

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During our wide-ranging conversation, SNL veteran and comic actor & writer Will Forte talked about his new series, Flipped (part of Quibi's launch), working with co-star Kaitlin Olson, what the past few weeks have been like for him, how the "celery up your butt" plot point came to be in MacGruber, what props he owns from the film, what it was like working on Late Show with David Letterman back in the late 90s and how that impacted his writing, what it was like growing his huge beard for The Last Man on Earth and then shaving half of it off, and so much more it would be impossible to list it all here.

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Roger Deakins is the greatest cinematographer who’s ever lived. That’s not hyperbole. That’s not recency bias. It’s a pretty inarguable fact. Throughout a career that ranges from the docudrama style of Fargo to the poetic imagery of The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford to the stunning future vision of Blade Runner 2049, Deakins has consistently proven to be a master with light and shadow, conjuring emotion and drilling down character beats with strikingly evocative imagery. His work is diverse but never derivative, distinct yet not repetitive. He’s been nominated for 14 Oscars and has won two. Deakins and his collaborator and wife James Ellis Deakins were gracious enough to sit down with Collider for an extended, exclusive conversation about their working relationship and a few notable films from Deakins’ storied career.

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In these uncertain times, it’s more important than ever to stay safely connected—with friends, with family, and with those we admire. Enter: Collider Connected. This new live interview series on Collider broadcasts in-depth discussions with filmmakers, writers, actors, and many more live on our YouTube channel, and our first guest was none other than Michael Giacchino.

Giacchino is, of course, the Oscar-winning composer behind more brilliant scores than you can count: Up, The Incredibles, War for the Planet of the Apes, John Carter, Jojo Rabbit, Star Trek, Rogue One, Doctor Strange, Bad Times at the El Royale and so many more. But Giacchino is also a filmmaker himself.

As he recounts in our 40-minute interview conducted on Friday, Giacchino grew up making movies with his friends, obsessed with the same films and filmmakers a lot of us were: Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, etc. So a couple of years ago, after making a wildly successful career out of film composing, Giacchino decided to hop back in the saddle and try his hand at filmmaking again—this time with plenty more resources at his disposal than a single Super 8 camera.

The result is the short film Monster Challenge, and it is absolutely delightful. In the wake of “shelter at home” orders and social distancing measures, not to mention a cloud of uncertainty over everything, Giacchino decided to put his short film, starring Patton Oswalt and Ben Schwartz, online for free to help bring some joy into the world. And boy does it succeed.

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