BP233 The Iron Giant

The Best Pick movie podcast

Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky

Episode 233: The Iron Giant

Released 16 November 2022

For this episode, we watched 1999’s The Iron Giant based on Ted Hughes’s book The Iron Man. The screenplay was by Tim McCanlies and Brad Bird, who also directed. The voice cast includes Eli Marienthal, Jennifer Aniston, Harry Connick Jr, Vin Diesel and John Mahoney. The film combines a hand-drawn look with computer animation for the Iron Giant himself and it cost $50 million to make, taking only around $30 million at the box office. It has a Rotten Tomatoes score of 96%.

• Pete Townsend’s The Iron Man https://petetownshend.net/musicals/iron-man-musical
• Leaked copy reviewed http://legacy.aintitcool.com/node/3793
• Del Toro on Netflix https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/80209229
• https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/dragon-s-lair-returns
• https://www.filmstories.co.uk

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