Recovered
Welcome to Recovered, where Dan and Keith dig into all films remade, rebooted, and redone. They say there are no new stories under the sun, and Hollywood's been taking that as an excuse to tell the same stories over and over since the silent era, so we dig into which movies warranted a remake, which remakes improved on the original, and how very often neither of those things are true.
Recovered
Episode 118: Fancy Murderers! (feat. Munsi Parker-Munroe)
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Munsi Parker-Munroe rejoins Dan and Keith to delve into the cinematic universe of "What if multiple fancy murderers were all in a place where you wouldn't expect them to all be?" In the beginning comes Smokin' Aces, a full deck of current and future stars as a variety of feds and hitmen circle the one drug-riddled informant who could bring down the last Castra Nostra boss. Violent hijinks ensue! Then future Oscar nominee Martin McDonagh gets pulled into the conversation with Seven Psychopaths, the story of a filmmaker who really doesn't want to do a violent crime flick but promised to make a movie called Seven Psychopaths so may have painted himself into a corner. And finally, a collection of colourful criminals find themselves caught in fate's web as they're all drawn to the same Bullet Train, which unexpectedly becomes a master class of set-up and payoff. Are these really all remakes of Smokin' Aces? Or has Munsi concocted a ruse to let us have some fun with some killers? Listen and find out!