Alan Taylor

Yeah, I think that was the idea.

Alan Taylor is the first.

He was a canonically gay character, and they probably would have addressed that.

And then the 80s bullying, Guy Gardner, all that stuff, I imagine that might have been a factor.

Those are two very different time periods.

Yeah, I think that was the idea is, like, Alan Taylor is the first.

Like, he was a canonically gay character, and they probably would've addressed that.

And then, like, the '80s bullying Guy Gardner and all that stuff, I imagine that might've been a factor.

this Season 6 Part 2, Episode 8 of The Sopranos, entitled The Blue Comet.

This was written by David Chase and Matthew Weiner, directed by Alan Taylor.

[exhales] So out of the gate, I will never forget how I felt when this episode first aired.

It walloped.

I love Rome.

Uh, you know, sort of like, he, he was, like, Alan Taylor's DP before he was a director.

So, like, I always love when people make the move from d- from cinematography to directing, and then they always have, like, a very distinctive visual style, and I think visually this episode was quite special in, in addition to all the other things.

Uh, Chris Mundy, if you listen to the official podcast, Chris Mundy was, like, very clear that when they get to the, uh, yellow planet that we have at the end of the episode-

right.

And even, who were we talking to? Alan Taylor the other day when we shot the night stuff at the zoo at that, the original, and I think at the time they were the administrative offices, one of the original buildings at the Baltimore Zoo we shot outside of.

So, you know, getting outside in the air a little bit was always nice to be outside.

Outside the stages and the city a little bit.

director of Ant-Man looks exactly like Scott Van Pelt.

Alan Taylor is Thor of the Dark World.

Peyton Reed.

Peyton Reed, that's