The Empire Film Podcast: Tatiana Maslany, Stephen King Adaptations, And What’s Up With Bond?

After the veritable guestapaloozas The Empire Film Podcast has been bringing you in recent weeks, we've only got one guest gracing your ears on our latest episode. But if we are only bringing in one guest this week, then what a guest it is, as we are delighted to be joined by the great Tatiana Maslany, star of Osgood Perkins' bonkers new Stephen King adaptation The Monkey. In a wide-ranging, twenty(ish) minute long chat with our very own Chris Hewitt, Maslany pops up on Zoom to talk death, directions, Bob Monkhouse, her own riotous podcast Comedy Bang Bang, and The Monkey of course [25:00 - 43:07 approx.]

Back in the podbooth, Chris is joined by Helen O'Hara and James Dyer to discuss their favourite Stephen King movies, and the gang also get stuck in with reviews of the aforementioned The Monkey, Justin Kurzel's timely white supremacy thriller The Order, and Oscar contender I'm Still Here. Over on the movie news front however, our regularly scheduled rundown of the latest trailers, project announcements, and developments in the world of cinema is rudely interrupted by the bombshell revelation that Amazon MGM has taken creative control of James Bond, prompting a deep dive into what this may all yet mean for the future of 007 on screens both big and small. For those not stirred but easily shaken by copious Bond chat, that particular conversation can be found, roughly, from 50:04 - 1:04:12 — should you, heaven forfend, wish to skip it. Aside from that, all the rest of your usual movie news, nonsense, and more can be found right here, present and correct. As ever, please do enjoy!

You can listen to this week's episode (which, if you're counting, is #656) on the pod app of your choice.