Chris Weitz

Yeah, check out War of the Worlds 2025.

And then the final film that he was ever the lead of was two years ago and it was Chris Weitz's movie Afray-Eyed.

This

is a fray-eyed.

Okay, well, that's him and Katherine Waterston with the parents in that.

One of the worst films of all time.

But Chris Weitz admits that.

And Chris Weitz got Columbus made.

The most relevant one in this category might be Afraid, which pulled in some of the worst box office numbers ever for a movie of its size when it was released.

It was written and directed by Chris Weitz, who's made some good movies, like About a Boy, which he wrote and directed, or 2015's Cinderella, which he wrote, but this movie does not go into his personal hall of fame.

The movie stars John Cho as an advertising executive who brings home a new AI home assistant called Aya, spelled A-I-A, in order to land a big tech account.

Aya starts off helping the family do good things like resolving medical bills and exposing the daughter's boyfriend for circulating deepfake pornography of her and then murdering him.

Now, how are they going to get down from the little podium?

You reminded me that one of the notes I had when I watched the behind the scenes was they talked with the stunt coordinator, J.J. McCarrow, and Chris Weitz described his style of figuring out what they wanted to do with this scene as, quote, eyeballing the set and seeing what he can break from here.

Hell

yes.

But the director here is David Slade.

Now Chris Weitz directed the last film, but he couldn't direct this film because the f- the New Moon was still in post-production.

So they said, "Girl, you work on this one.

We gonna get somebody else in." So he, he did Eclipse.

But here we are, nonetheless, to prove ourselves and them wrong.

We're here to talk about 2016's Rogue One, a Star Wars story written by Gareth Edwards, Chris Weitz, Tony Gilroy, John Knoll.

Have a listen to the trailer for the basically finale of Andor as we now know it.

Yeah.

Oh yeah, we are baby.

And we're meeting a bunch of new friends.

Yes.

Or, well, it's a bunch of all people we've met, but now they're meeting each other.

Yeah.

Our friends are meeting each other.

Aw.

That's so fun.

And this is where we witness the absolute supremacy of a highly familiar face.

The winner was Murderbot, specifically the episode All Systems Red from the Apple TV adaptation directed by Roseanne Liang, written by Paul and Chris Weitz, based on the novella by Martha Wells.

Huge win.

Now, I am gonna push back aggressively here because looking at this win, it feels like the Hugos are caught in a closed loop IP echo chamber.