Empire (Empire magazine)

When I chose it, I didn't realize it was such a heavy hitter in the world of horror and how influential it was with directors like John Carpenter and Wes Craven.

Empire Magazine calls it one of the top 500 movies ever made.

Entertainment Weekly calls it the 18th scariest movie of all time.

So it's got some chops.

Anyway, anyway, anyway.

Reviewing the movie for Empire Magazine... horror expert and author Kim Newman wrote, it has an anime look with big eyes and winsome faces, but reproduces details of Gene Colan's comic designs, Dracula's pencil flick moustache, his layered cloak, Lilith Layla's Vampirella Barbarella cutaway costume.

However, directors Ekinori Nagaoka and Minoru Okaza don't have the resources for first-rate work, and many scenes are barely a step above those 1960s Marvel cartoons.

which tried to bring Jack Kirby or Steve Ditko strips to life with cutouts and camera moves across panels.

Still, the wayward storyline holds interest as it tries to wrestle Stoker's concept into Marvel's soap superhero universe.

I love Kim Newman.

He wrote horror reviews for Empire for hundreds of millions of years, and they were compiled into books you can get.

But I would strongly recommend, if you like any kind of vampire-y thing, to read the novel that he wrote, Anno Dracula, which I've probably mentioned a hundred times on the podcast.

Time for the music now, and George Miller does use some pre-existing pieces of music by Italian opera maestro Giuseppe Verdi and the Greek composer Eleni Karain-Drew, but the main composer on Fury Road was Tom Hulkenborg, a.k.a. Junkie XL.

This was his 15th feature credit, and his previous highlights included Day Away, Dead or Alive, 300 Rise of an Empire, and The Amazing Spider-Man 2.

A lot of video game and comic book adaptations for Junkie XL, Westy.

But

Well, none of them ended up being hired, though, did they?

No, no, no. Tom Hulkenborg is a Dutch composer and DJ who started recording under the name Junkie XL in 1997.

He said in 2013 he was wrapping up his work on 300 Rise of an Empire when he got a call from Darren Higman, the executive vice president of music at Warner Brothers, who said, I'm with George Miller.

What are you doing tonight?

I saw a quote where she said...

Empire Magazine asked her about it.

And she said, I knew I wanted an actor over 70 who had a tenderness in their voice.

Because there was a side of Aslan she wanted to reveal that was not... strong, scary, masculine, male dominant, but more tender and loving.

I know.

I know.

But you typically I'm not saying they're not good, but I'm just saying like, you know, the spectrum of, you know, Tiger King and Chimp Empires and like Poop Cruises.

We know what we're in for.

So yeah, it's really nice seeing the kind of two sides of the war, really.

And do my eyes deceive me? Or is this the little staircase we see Galadriel walking down in that night shot in that one Empire magazine pic? I think you are right.

I just clocked that.

Or at least

I mean, friendship and the secret fire.

But maybe he has the One Ring.

And then we get a quick little glimpse into the buzzy sword flirting scene that Empire Magazine described to us, which I've been very excited for.

It's just like a...

Let's see.

So Dave Filoni... just did a recent interview with Empire magazine and he was defending his controversial controversial

controversial

Asoka season 2 story change you have to serve both sides of the Star Wars fan base so in a recent interview with Empire magazine Lucasfilm president and Asoka showrunner writer and creator David Filoni.

David Filoni? Dave Filoni.

Talked about the Disney Plus show's upcoming installment, particularly noting that he understands the fan base will be divided about the show's supernatural elements.