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Adapted from the lauded UK miniseries of the same title,\u00a0State of Play<\/i>\u00a0had a labored journey to the screen. Appearing on the 2006 Black List and originally intended as the screen reunion for Brad Pitt and Edward Norton, the American film adaptation weathered several delays, recastings, and creative setbacks, including the 2007 WGA strike. Once in production, the film mounted a cast that included Russell Crowe, Ben Affleck, Rachel McAdams, and Helen Mirren to unfold its political conspiracy in the attempted vein of\u00a0All the President\u2019s Men<\/i>. All of this prestige put the film on awards prognosticators\u2019 early predictions while it was still planned for a fall 2008 release, but it quickly cast aside those ambitions once in was punted one final time to a spring 2009 release.<\/p>\n
This episode, we discuss Russell Crowe\u2019s post-Oscar career of several Ridley Scott films and the phone-throwing incident that tainted his career. We also discuss Ben Affleck in the immediate afterglow of his directorial debut\u00a0Gone Baby Gone,\u00a0<\/i>his immediate pivot to casting himself in his own movies, and director Kevin Macdonald\u2019s pivot from documentarries to fiction films.<\/p>\n
Topics also include watching the original miniseries on Netflix discs, snacks that are just chemicals, and\u00a0The Eagle<\/i>.<\/p>\n
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