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Director Sam Mendes Reveals Why He’ll Probably Never Make a Popcorn Movie Again · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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Speaker 2: Visionary director Sam Mendez has done a little bit of everything,
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Speaker 2: from very personal projects like his breakout American Beauty and
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Speaker 2: acclaimed war drom in nineteen seventeen, the big studio franchises
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Speaker 2: like James Bond movie Sky Fall Inspector, and he scures
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Speaker 2: the process of making those big budget projects in his
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Speaker 2: new HBO comedy series The Franchise, about the behind the
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Speaker 2: scenes of a massive superhero movie. And while Sam says
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Speaker 2: never say never about helming another popcorn franchise, it's highly
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Speaker 2: unlikely because of how different a director's role is on
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Speaker 2: that type of film. He says, as a director, you're
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Speaker 2: usually the initiator of the person who's there on the
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Speaker 2: ground floor. So to walk in and have an actor
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Speaker 2: who's played the role twice before and know it far
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Speaker 2: better than you do, and an entire team who knows
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Speaker 2: the world better than you do, you have to try
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Speaker 2: and play catch up. That's a very odd place to
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Speaker 2: put yourself as a director. Forwards a Sam Mendez, you
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Speaker 2: can watch his take on directing a franchise on his
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Speaker 2: new show simply called The Franchise's Streaming. I'm Max.
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