The King (2019)

In our latest episode, regular hosts Haitch and Jason are joined by return guest and host of the 70mm podcast, Slim. We cover Timothée Chalamet’s perfect warmup for his performance in Dune, 2019’s The King. We discuss the ups and downs of home theater configuration, historical facts vs fiction, and whether the movie Heat is wildly over-rated?

Chapters

• Introduction (00:00:00)
• Dune News (00:09:45)
• Roundtable Discussion (00:15:35)
• Your Letters (01:03:25)

Notes and Links

• New HBO Max Streaming Trailer. The link to the new HBO Max trailer featuring Dune alongside every other 2021 release was provided by Dune News Net.
• Dune: House of Secrets Adventure Game. From Portal Games, the makers of Detective, a new 3 part adventure game set within the first Dune book. Read all about it at Boardgame Geek.
• Zendaya and Carey Mulligan were featured on Actors on Actors, friend of the show Rob Schroeder’s Emmy winning show. Topics: Euphoria, Malcolm & Marie, and Promising Young Woman. Watch the full video on Variety.
• 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 [email protected] or leave us a voicemail at +1-415-534-5211.

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