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‘8MM’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan

The Rewatchables

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The Unsatisfying Career of a Screenwriter

The movie seems like a little bit of a fuck you to Hollywood for Joel Schumacher. I actually read his original script because he's on the internet. It really wasn't that much different than the movie. The difference was, there's this whole child porn piece of it where when Max California takes cage to the underground and they're going to those different places,. There's way more child porn sections. And then Gando Feeney's character is heavy in a child porn. When he let goes and taps the phone, he sees all this child porn stuff. So I think that's what the studio responded to. And I think Hollywood's going to stay away from heavy child porn

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