Ladyhawke

and pretty much the audience has to figure it out too.

This is one of those go-to roles for Rudger Hauer when people say, who was Rudger Hauer? I'll pick this, I'll pick Ladyhawk, and I'll pick Blade Runner.

I think those are three of his best, although now I've seen a few more.

Dude was on fire back in the 80s.

Uh, I want- I wanted to watch these movies for the first time before I listened to the episode.

So I watched Leave, Extraordinary Gentlemen, Ladyhawke, Richie Rich, and had a good time watching those.

But the best one that I watched, uh, was Waterworld, both cuts of Waterworld-

Mm

Not as great as you want it to be or as much as you liked it as a kid.

But, um, but you know, the, it makes a better book than a movie.

Uh, I also, I wrote Ladyhawke here.

I remember the Ladyhawke book was pretty fun.

11 o'clock I'll be joined by the comedian Al Pitcher who's going to join me and coming up after this I'd like to have a conversation about last night's TV that doesn't paint me in a very good light but I think I just want some backing up.

Dust Till Dawn, Lady Hawk, I like that very much and I listened to the new Kings of Leon album this week and like that a lot.

That's out digitally today and on general release tomorrow.

Smashing album, completely converted now on Kings of Leon.

...

so I just watched all five movies last week.

There's five?

There's five.

Wow.

There's five movies.

I thought there were three.

No, there's not.

The Hitcher

... uh, you know, even the, the really, uh, like, I mean, obviously he was in Ladyhawke, which is a great film.

But he was also in shitty movies that I loved anyway, like Wanted Dead or Alive, and The Blood of Heroes with Joan Chen, and like, all these-

Nighthawks.

Yeah, 'cause I c- I remember the cover vividly, and, um, yeah, The Sword and the Sorcerer was definitely one of them.

And of course Ladyhawke and, oh, so many other fan, sword and sorcery fantasy titles I can name.

But Deathstalker really stood out mainly due to its cover art because the cover art is, is, is amazing.

It's, it is definitely Frank Frazetta-esque and...

I like him a lot anyway, but I would have loved to have seen that.

Yeah, when we did Ladyhawk, we talked about we would like to see him in more leading man roles like this.

That would have been great.

Yeah.

Elizabeth?

I will say that Ladyhawk, Rutger Hauer, that when I finally saw Ladyhawk, I was like, yeah, I get that.

I get it, Anne.

I went with Matthew Rhys, who's like everyone's favorite right now.

Um, and you know, I did over three films with Donner, who, um, I loved deeply as a friend and a director.

And, um, uh, I, I-- we did The Omen first, uh, Superman, Ladyhawke.

Um, he was so much fun, but m- more than anything, he dragged out of me, um, talents that I never knew I had.

Um, uh, really how to figure out, you know, how to chop people's heads off and do all sorts of other fun things.

But wait, I have to stop you.

Is that legal? Can a comic book artist just draw a famous actor's face onto a character without paying that actor for their likeness rights? I mean, Rutger Hauer was a massive star then coming off Blade Runner and Ladyhawke.

It's a gray area that the comic industry used to exploit quite a bit, actually.

Really?

Yeah.

Uh, number eight, uh, Ladyhawke had been out for four weeks

Matthew Broderick.

Okay.