Late Fame
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Sep 9, 2026
Rudi GreenbergHOST
Coyote vs. Acme, a hybrid live-action and cartoon revival of the Looney Tunes that's based on Ian Frazier's 1990 New Yorker humor piece of the same name.
Rudi GreenbergHOST
The film, which was infamously deleted for a tax write-off by Warner Brothers before backlash led to it being acquired by Ketchup Entertainment, features human performances from Will Forte, Lana Condor, and John Cena, alongside Wile E. Coyote, the Roadrunner, and many other iconic Looney Tunes characters.
Sophie VershbowHOST
Breathtaking performances by all.
Sophie VershbowHOST
If you're new here, Rudy and I are culture reporters, and on this podcast, we discuss the page-to-screen adaptations everyone is talking about.
Sophie VershbowHOST
I read the book, or in this case, the article.
Sophie VershbowHOST
We both watch the TV show or movie, and then we discuss the differences and what we thought of the new adaptation.
Sophie VershbowHOST
And yes, that means there will be spoilers throughout for the film and for the New Yorker humor piece.
Rudi GreenbergHOST
Though I don't know how you could really spoil that piece.
JulianHOST
... or Robert Eggers as well, showcasing many different sides of himself there.
JulianHOST
I actually am lucky enough that- A few weeks ago, I got to see him in person at a Q&A for a new movie he's in called Late Fame, and that's a very naturalistic role that he's playing there.
JulianHOST
Uh, you can sense he's bringing a lot of himself into it.
JulianHOST
One of my main qualifiers for thinking an actor should play a dual role is range, of course, but not...
Alison StewartHOST
The drama follows a man as he goes through a county-mandated drug court program.
Alison StewartHOST
But let's get started with director Kent Jones and actors Willem Dafoe and Edmund Donovan, who worked together on the film Late Fame about a relatively obscure poet whose work reaches a new audience.
Alison StewartHOST
[upbeat music] In the film Late Fame, Willem Dafoe plays a New York City poet named Ed Saxberger, who is super famous.
Alison StewartHOST
Well, at least to one group of about six people.
Alison StewartHOST
He wrote a book of poetry called Way Past Go a long time ago.
Alison StewartHOST
They praise his work, and they are all entranced by an actress named Gloria.
Alison StewartHOST
But as Ed spends more time with Meyers and Gloria, things start to get a bit more complicated.
Alison StewartHOST
Was Saxberger a great poet who didn't get his due? Was he good at all? How will he balance his current life with his potential future? Late Fame is in theaters now.
Juzo GreenwoodHOST
Um, and is just a very, you know, s- kinda simple movie, um, in that, in that style that I kind of enjoy, um, of, of, of Carpenter and '80s James Cameron, George Miller, like that type of thing.
Juzo GreenwoodHOST
Um, and then, oh yeah, I saw this drama called "Late Fame," which is by, um, I think this guy named Kent Jones, who is a...
Juzo GreenwoodHOST
He's, like, a film programmer and film critic a- at Lincoln Center.
Juzo GreenwoodHOST
He's, he's sort of someone you'll see, you know, hosting Q&As at Lincoln Center more often than, um, directing, you know, for most of his life.
Lisa LamanGUEST
But I was fucking exhausted all day.
Lisa LamanGUEST
So I've just been muttering at the house, unboxing things, writing a Late Fame review, all that good stuff, and doing some podcast recording.
Lisa LamanGUEST
So I am excited to talk summer 2026 to wrap up this exhausting day.
AbeHOST
This is the energy we need, Scott.
Lisa LamanGUEST
You're someone else.
Lisa LamanGUEST
You're the second person to make that comparison at this party.
AaronHOST
[laughs] Did you like Late Fame, Lisa?
Lisa LamanGUEST
What's that?
Chris HewittHOST
Disclaimer, may not be gorgeous or September or a day where you are.
Chris HewittHOST
First up, we have the legendary Willem Dafoe, star of Late Fame, a film about an ordinary guy who experiences a bloom of recognition in his twilight years for poems he wrote in the '70s.
Chris HewittHOST
Dafoe, of course, has experienced fame for decades now, breaking through in the '80s with movies like Platoon, and he's created a memorable collection of heroes, villains and, frankly, oddballs ever since then.
Chris HewittHOST
Our Alex Godfrey spoke to Dafoe on Zoom recently and briefly became Willem DaFriend.
Chris HewittHOST
Here's their chat.
Alex GodfreyCORRESPONDENT
Okay.
Alex GodfreyCORRESPONDENT
[laughs]
Willem DafoeSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Listen, I gotta tell you a story that once I was on a movie called Heaven's Gate, and there were lots of actors and successful actors on it, and I was just a young kid, and I had kind of a glorified extras part.
Nero NavaHOST
And we're back.
Nero NavaHOST
That was a movie review from I want you to know film critic Rachel Walther.
Nero NavaHOST
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Nero NavaHOST
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Gráinne HumphriesGUEST
It's a brilliant film.
Gráinne HumphriesGUEST
So it's Late Fame.
Gráinne HumphriesGUEST
It's, uh, the, the, the, I mean, incredibly prolific Willem Dafoe-
Dearbhail McDonaldHOST
Yes
Alonso DuraldeHOST
has a new book out and it is a follow up to her earlier book that I think we talked about.
Alonso DuraldeHOST
But have you read the book, which is a collection of great films based on novels? And she sort of digs into the source material and then talks about the movie and what the movie keeps and what it jettisons and why each one works in its own way.
Alonso DuraldeHOST
And so now this follow-up is the romance edition.
Alonso DuraldeHOST
So it is all love stories, everything from Gone with the Wind and Dr. Zhivago to How Stella Got Her Groove Back and Carol, among others.
6 MINS LATER
Kevin AveryHOST
And it's not just...
Kevin AveryHOST
I do like that...
Kevin AveryHOST
You know, we've been talking about this, the idea that people have been going back to the movies, but it's not just... one kind of film i i think at first it's like oh well these horror movies that are with these directors from youtube but we're seeing it's comedies it's it's horror films it's family films it's you know people are going out again and that's all you love to see it
David KittredgeGUEST
it's about, it's about more than just the, the thing itself, the content itself, the thing that you watch is the experience of going out.
Linda MarricHOST
Yeah, I should be reviewing a new version of the story of Robin Hood, the death of Robin Hood this time around.
Linda MarricHOST
And then I will start with I will review a Willem Dafoe vehicle called Late Fame, which I won't say anything about it until later.
Linda MarricHOST
I review it.
Linda MarricHOST
And then from the sublime to the ridiculous, I will also be reviewing fall to the second, uh, uh, installment in this mini franchise about people climbing things.
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