Christopher Nolan, Kai Bird on adapting ‘American Prometheus’; Disney’s proxy war wages on

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Christopher Nolan, Kai Bird on adapting ‘American Prometheus’; Disney’s proxy war wages on

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Published on Feb 16, 2024, 2:30:00 PM
Total time: 00:39:32

Episode Description

Kim Masters and Matt Belloni examine the latest updates in the Disney proxy vote saga. Also, has peak TV officially ended? The banter partners break down FX chairman John Landgraf’s recent remarks on the current state of television.  

Plus, Masters speaks to Oppenheimer writer and director Christopher Nolan and American Prometheus co-author Kai Bird about adapting the film’s Pulitzer Prize winning source material. Bird talks about the 25 years it took to complete the sprawling biography with co-author Martin Sherwin, and Nolan shares how he approached adapting their 700-page book into a summer blockbuster hit.

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Lively banter about entertainment industry news and in-depth interviews with directors, producers, writers and actors, hosted by award-winning journalist Kim Masters of The Hollywood Reporter.