In our latest episode, regular hosts Haitch and Jason are joined by Product Manager and investor, Merci Grace. We discuss Dune 2021’s Gurney Halleck himself: Josh Brolin, in the Coen Brothers and Roger Deakins’ 2010 western masterpiece, True Grit. We cover complicated Civil War era dynamics, the power of being able to admit you’re wrong, and the dangers of frontier era dentistry.
Chapters
- Introduction (00:00:00)
- Dune News (00:04:26)
- Roundtable Discussion (00:13:28)
- Your Letters (01:06:54)
Notes and Links
- Hawkeye comic by Matt Fraction & David Aja. This legendary comic run is beautiful and hilarious and the inspiration for the new Hawkeye TV show starring Jeremy Renner [CUE his scat clip!] and Hailee Steinfeld. Get the digital comic here.
- Check out the John Milius documentary. It follows the wild man of Hollywood, writer of Apocalypse Now and director of Conan the Barbarian. Also the inspiration for Walter from The Big Lebowski?!? Check out the documentary’s IMDb page.
- Godzilla vs Kong did $49M opening weekend ($285M total so far worldwide)! Huge box office hit even with HBO Max Day & Date. A Dune redditor said the trailer for Dune before Kong said, ‘Only in Theaters’, so stay tyuned. Read Deadline’s full story here.
- The Skree Dune issue is available now! Pick up this amazing work of loving art now at The Grumpus.
- Bushido’s Dune Spotify Playlist. Friend of the show Rich (aka Bushido on Spotify) has built an awesome chill Dune inspired playlist.
- Tim O’Reilly’s 1977 biography Frank Herbert
- See the movies we’ve watched and are going to watch on our Dune Pod Set List on Letterboxd
- Dune Pod’s Breaking Dune News Twitter list
- Rate and review the podcast to help others discover it, and let us know what you think of the show at letters@dunepod.com or leave us a voicemail at +1-415-534-5211.
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