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Sunshine (2007): How One Film Caused One Of The Most Iconic Creative Partnerships To Collapse For Almost Two Decades
Ben and Rob step into Sunshine, the 2007 sci-fi thriller that sent Danny Boyle and his 28 Days Later screenwriter Alex Garland out of the zombie-infested UK and into the dying heart of our solar system. The film follows the crew of the Icarus II, an international band of astronauts played by Cillian Murphy as quiet physicist Capa, Chris Evans as the most sensible man on board, Rose Byrne, Michelle Yeoh, Hiroyuki Sanada, Benedict Wong and Cliff Curtis, as they haul a bomb the size of Manhattan towards the sun in a last-ditch attempt to reignite it, with Mark Strong waiting out in the dark as a man who really, really should not have survived.
How do you make a cast of actors believe they’re physicists, and did sending Cillian Murphy to CERN with Brian Cox actually work? What was the Boyle and Garland disagreement that left one of cinema’s great writer-director partnerships on ice for years? What on earth possessed Danny Boyle to go on Richard and Judy and say what he said about the ending? Why did a film this gorgeous, with a cast this good, quietly vanish at the box office? And is there something almost too perfect about a film that spends two acts as hard science fiction and then lurches into slasher territory, a third act people have been arguing about ever since: a catastrophic collapse, or the whole point?
And finally… what does it really mean?!
5 Oct 2026
Waterworld (1995): Ruin Your Friendship For Only £175m
Ben and Rob set sail for Waterworld, Kevin Reynolds' 1995 post-apocalyptic epic that turned a five-million-dollar B-movie idea into the most expensive film ever made at the time, and one of Hollywood's most infamous cautionary tales. Directed by Reynolds and starring Kevin Costner, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Tina Majorino and Dennis Hopper, the film follows a mutant drifter across a flooded Earth while, behind the scenes, an unfinished script, a gigantic floating city and two old friends with very different ideas of what movie they were making pushed the production towards complete industrial madness.
How did Roger Corman rejecting a waterlogged Mad Max knock-off for being too expensive lead, somehow, to a $175 million studio blockbuster? Why did Kevin Costner and Kevin Reynolds agree to work together again after Robin Hood had already wrecked their friendship, and how did the exact same argument over creative control come back to destroy them twice? What happens when you decide the best way to suggest a floating city is to actually build one, chain it to the seabed and employ Lockheed Martin to help keep the bastard afloat? And after months of headlines branding it “Fishtar” and “Kevin’s Gate” before audiences had even seen it, was Waterworld really the catastrophic flop everyone remembers, or did the story of the disaster become bigger than the film itself?
And finally… what does it really mean?!
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28 Sept 2026
Howard The Duck (1986): Is The Making Of Howard The Duck The Most Howard The Duck Thing That Ever Happened To Howard The Duck?
Ben and Rob step into Howard the Duck, the 1986 sci-fi comedy that took George Lucas's decade long crush on a foul mouthed Marvel comic book duck and turned it into one of the most notorious box office disasters in Hollywood history. Directed by Willard Huyck from a screenplay he co-wrote with Gloria Katz, the film stars Lea Thompson as rock singer Beverly Switzler, Jeffrey Jones as a scientist possessed by an alien entity, and a young Tim Robbins as her hapless almost scientist friend, all sharing the screen with a wisecracking, cigar smoking duck played by a rotating cast of performers in animatronic suits.
Why did Lucas and his American Graffiti collaborators originally want to make this thing as a cartoon, and what forced Universal to demand a live-action duck instead? How do you even get an audience to accept a romantic subplot between a human woman and a man in a rubber duck costume, and did anyone involved really think that would work? What happened on release that turned this into a punchline for years and got it nominated for Worst Picture of the Decade at the Razzies? And is there something almost too perfect about a movie starring an outsider who doesn't fit anywhere getting made by an industry that couldn't figure out where it fit either?
And finally… what does it really mean?!
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