It was foretold by the Ancient Ones: The Convergence (or Gunvergence, if you will), the day on which three absolutely slamming action movies will be
It was foretold by the Ancient Ones: The Convergence (or Gunvergence, if you will), the day on which three absolutely slamming action movies will be released at the same time in the UK (albeit on different formats), ushering in a fresh era of sweaty dad bods, car chases, and many scenes where people die in a hail of bullets. And that day is today, folks. April 25, which sees the release of Gareth Evans’ HAVOC on Netflix, Christian Gudegast’s Den Of Thieves 2: Pantera on Prime Video, and Gavin O’Connor’s The Accountant 2 in cinemas across the country. The Convergence has been keeping our Chris Hewitt going for some time now, and so on this week’s episode of the Empire Podcast, he gets to sit down with the directors of all three films: Evans at 22:24 (approx), O’Connor at 1:03:23 (approx), and Gudegast at 1:39:48 (approx).
But that’s not all, no sirree. Chris is joined back in the podbooth this week by Helen O’Hara, James Dyer, and Beth Webb to run their eye over the week’s movie news, including Ryan Gosling’s Star Wars: Starfighter casting and _that Predator: Badlands_trailer, but sadly not last week’s Fantastic Four trailer — which somehow managed to fall through the cracks. Still, elsewhere the gang review the aforementioned action holy trinity, tackle a whole bunch of Mount Rushmore scenarios in our listeners’ questions section, and manage to deliver another classic episode filled with movies, news, nonsense, movie news nonsense, and more. And yes, we’re very aware that we forgot to mention Close Encounters. Anyway, enjoy! ALL HAIL THE CONVERGENCE!
You can listen to this week’s episode (which, if you’re counting, is #665) on the pod app of your choice.
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