Raiders of the Lost Ark with Brian Michael Bendis
🕑 Added 2025-02-09 05:00:11 +0000 UTCYou’re a young movie fan. It’s 1981. STEVEN SPIELBERG is teaming up with FREAKING GEORGE LUCAS (!?!?!) to make a movie with HAN SOLO…can you imagine how hyped you’d be?? Marvel Comics legend Brian Michael Bendis joins us to recount the colossal impact of RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK in this rollicking adventure of an episode. Jewish mysticism and weird Nazi stuff! Alfred Molina getting covered with a bunch of live spiders! Karen Allen coming up with an incredibly detailed backstory for Marion and Spielberg being like, “sure, whatever”! Danny DeVito almost being cast as Saleh?!?! You bet we’re getting into it, snakes and all.
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BENJAMIN SHULTZ
Wait, are you telling me Crystal Skull had a prequel?!?
Nick Brown
The early conversation on how one would soak up these movies through comic tie-ins, novelizations, and other things because the movie itself was not readily on demand outside of re-releases or second run $2 theaters is so resonant.
Elizabeth Edwards
HOLY SHIT YOU GUYS GOT BENDIS???
LandoDaGreat
All timer