Jun 17, 2026 · 1 hr 16 min · 11 segments
HOLLYWOOD HANGOVER!!! Returning from their May hiatus, the boys are back to chat all things Summer movie season! This episode, they discuss Joe's trip to Spain as a script writing mentor and the…
Joe RussoHost
Chris PriceHost
I it's it's really funny being at a screenwriting retreat where the whole time you were there you're like talking about screenplays you're talking about movies but there's like almost no infrastructure to actually watch movies while you're there it's a really strange kind of conundrum i i think the only movie i saw the whole time i was in spain was the mandalorian and grogu uh because it was such a to-do to go see a movie because we were so far out in the countryside um like we were so so yeah set us up joe like so yeah yeah yeah so give us context what's going on here So I, a couple of years ago, people who are longtime listeners might remember I went to France to go teach at a screenwriting retreat, the Rockaberti Writers Screenwriting Retreats.
And so what they do is they find these old medieval castles that they host these retreats at.
But once I got it, I got on a train, and we were whisked away from this small town called Figueres, where the Salvador Dali Museum is.
30 minutes beyond that, we were in this really teeny tiny Spanish countryside town where a castle was, like, built into the center of it.
So I said to them pretty early on, hey, I don't know if it's even possible, but I've never missed... a star Wars movie playing in the theater in my lifetime.
Uh, can you please see if there's a way for me to go see the Mandalorian and Grogu?
They found a movie theater that was playing one English language screening at 10 PM at night.
Uh, Roberto, who's the, uh, he's the son of the woman who runs the retreats, Claire, um, Roberto and, uh, two of the, the private chefs that they hire.
We all packed into a car and we drove 40 minutes out to this mall, um, out in the city called Girona.
I it's it's really funny being at a screenwriting retreat where the whole time you were there you're like talking about screenplays you're talking about movies but there's like almost no infrastructure to actually watch movies while you're there it's a really strange kind of conundrum i i think the only movie i saw the whole time i was in spain was the mandalorian and grogu uh because it was such a to-do to go see a movie because we were so far out in the countryside um like we were so so yeah set us up joe like so yeah yeah yeah so give us context what's going on here So I, a couple of years ago, people who are longtime listeners might remember I went to France to go teach at a screenwriting retreat, the Rockaberti Writers Screenwriting Retreats.
And so what they do is they find these old medieval castles that they host these retreats at.
But once I got it, I got on a train, and we were whisked away from this small town called Figueres, where the Salvador Dali Museum is.
30 minutes beyond that, we were in this really teeny tiny Spanish countryside town where a castle was, like, built into the center of it.
So I said to them pretty early on, hey, I don't know if it's even possible, but I've never missed... a star Wars movie playing in the theater in my lifetime.
Uh, can you please see if there's a way for me to go see the Mandalorian and Grogu?
They found a movie theater that was playing one English language screening at 10 PM at night.
Uh, Roberto, who's the, uh, he's the son of the woman who runs the retreats, Claire, um, Roberto and, uh, two of the, the private chefs that they hire.
We all packed into a car and we drove 40 minutes out to this mall, um, out in the city called Girona.
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