Love is very much in the air on the Empire Podcast this week, as Chris Hewitt, Helen O’Hara, James Dyer, and Becky Darke cram themselves into the podbooth and get all misty-eyed over Jason Voorhees, the masked maniac from the Friday The 13th movies, just in time for his birthday. But Valentine’s Day also looms large this weekend, so the podteam answer a listener question about the worst choices made in rom-coms. The answers will shock you. Elsewhere, our intrepid quartet discuss the week’s movie news, including the shock news that Mike Flanagan has decided to adapt a Stephen King story, and review Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights, Bart Layton’s Crime 101, Corin Hardy’s Whistle, and Hasan Hadi’s The President’s Cake. All that, and Helen sits down on Zoom with Emerald Fennell to ask her all about her adaptation of the classic novel (Wuthering Heights, not The President’s Cake, Whistle, or Crime 101.) [45:29 — 1:02:11 approx] Enjoy!
And if all of the above isn’t quite enough Empire Podcast for you, then there’s plenty more where that came from. You can listen to this week’s episode (which, if you’re counting, is #705) on the pod app of your choice. There, you’ll also find the latest episode of new Empire Pod regular The Interviews, the most recent instalment of which boasts chats with The Chronology Of Water director Kristen Stewart, Zootropolis 2 director Jared Bush, and Wonder Man co-showrunner Andrew Guest.
