Josh Friedman

Directed by Steven Spielberg.

Written by Josh Friedman and David Koepp.

Starring Tom Cruise and Dakota Fanning.

Dakota Fanning, but of course other people come in there.

And we are here to talk Foundation.

We're talking specifically the first episode that came out on September 24th, 2021, written by David S. Goyer and Josh Friedman, who are like the co-creators of the show as well.

And this first episode directed by Rupert Sanders.

This episode also came out the same day as the second episode.

That's pretty cool.

Yeah.

think so um yeah and like and of course yeah so it says here based on the novels by isaac asimov and goyer and friedman the two you know co-creators uh of the of the series um as we get our title card foundation you know here we go um so yeah this first episode written by david s goyer and josh friedman directed by rupert sanders so uh we start off here with the narration of gail dornick um telling us you know about when about her her childhood learning about the galactic empire um you know that there's that this is a vast world and galaxy um you know and and then we're kind of introduced to terminus this frozen rock world which is where the foundation will be established It's kind of this narration is teasing what this world is.

We even see some of the alien wildlife kind of pop out here in the first few minutes of the show.

It's directed by Matt Shackman, best known to Marvel fans as the director of most of the episodes of WandaVision.

Written by Josh Friedman, Eric Pearson, Jeff Kaplan, and Ian Springer.

And here's what happens in the movie.

Fantastic Four First Steps opens in Earth-828.

Okay.

Josh Friedman wants to know, oh, we're going to go back to the invite for a minute here.

Why are so many people convinced that the invite will get in for Best Picture when the Academy doesn't respond to films that are set in one location except for something cinematic like The Father, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, One Night in Miami, and The Whale were all snubbed? That's a valid comparison point to make.

But don't you guys feel like The Invite is directed in such a way that is flashier than a lot of those other movies?

care.

This was directed by Matt Shackman, written by Josh Friedman, Eric Pearsons, Jeff Kaplan, and Ian Springer.

This is one of those movies that had a thousand writers.

And I did not get to see this in theater, but God, it would have been so fucking good in theaters.

The screenplay, I'm just going to...

Not all of them had information on Wikipedia, so I'm just going to do the ones that do.

So Josh Friedman, which was the main writer, I'm assuming, he wrote the War of the Worlds remake.

Yeah.

Black Dahlia, based on the book by James L. Roy.

Screenplay by Josh Friedman, who has been a part of the Avatar films, 2025's Fantastic Four, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, and the Terminator franchise.

So he's got, you know, some blockbusters under his belt.

Directed by Brian De Palma.