We are so back! It’s the finale (?) of the Spielberg UFO invasion trilogy this week. Joining us once again to talk Grandpa Steve, Tom Cruise, and Janusz Kamiński, is returning champion Patrick Willems!

Topics discussed: post-9/11 filmmaking, the glory of MUNICH, Patrick’s upcoming short film (!!), Gore Verbinski’s PIRATES movies, the Tom Cruise Running Score, longing for Peter Jackson’s comeback, and some text message dispatches from WAR OF THE WORLDS vfx artist, Todd Vaziri.

Next week, it’s James Gunn’s 2006 early creepy crawly romp, SLITHER. Join the conversation on Eye of the Discord https://discord.com/invite/RssDc3brsx.

References:

• Special Features
• Revisiting the Invasion
• Steven Spielberg and the Original War of the Worlds
• Characters: The Family Unit
• Previsualization
• Production Diaries: East Coast - Beginning
• Production Diaries: East Coast - Exile
• Production Diaries: West Coast - Destruction
• Production Diaries: West Coast - War
• Designing the Enemy: Tripods and Aliens
• Scoring War of the Worlds
• War of the Worlds Production Notes
• Empire David Koepp Interview
• USA Today Spielberg Interview
• VFX Building Error
• Devin Faraci Spielberg & Cruise Interview
• Spiegel International Spielberg & Cruise Interview
• Spielberg Offers J.J. Abrams War of the Worlds
• Empire Spielberg Interview

Credits:

Eye of the Duck is created, hosted, and produced by Dom Nero and Adam Volerich.

This episode was edited by Michael Gaspari.

This episode was researched by Parth Marathe.

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The "Adam's Blu-Ray Corner" theme was produced by Chase Sterling.

This miniseries was programmed with the help of Nik Long.

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