February 5th, 1999. The Mel Gibson action comedy Payback was released to the public after a bitter dismissal from director Brian Helgeland over the creative direction of his neo-noir feature. Helgeland looked to create a dark, gritty adaptation to the 1962 crime novel, "The Hunter" till the executives at Paramount and WB forced the project to be a silly crime comedy. Retooling a bleak action feature into a dark comedy crime caper didn't really pay off in the long run, but three comics decided to sit down and talk about this feature for almost three hours.
This week, Liam Wolfe is joined by the Colonel Mastodon Power Hour, Reggie Parker and Dan Farley to recount the wild, insane, nonsensical story behind and around Payback. Discussion includes Bill Duke's swag, Lucy Liu as a dominatrix, "Hubba Hubba Hubba", car phones in the 1970s, "The Outfit", corrupt cops, casual anti-Semitism, heroin dealers from Venice Beach, James Coburn, a late replacement Kris Kristofferson and the wonderful world for Mel Gibson's Payback!
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