Episode Forty - Salt (2010)
Failure to Franchise
English - March 01, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 78.7 MBFilm History TV & Film Film Reviews film hollywood reviews boxoffice f2fpod failure filmcriticism franchise franchises moviefranchises Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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It's a new month, and a new theme. We're kicking off "March Mix-Up," a series devoted to both the bad and good of spy cinema, with a look at Phillip Noyce's Salt, from 2010. Originally developed as a spy thriller franchise for Tom Cruise, the film was ultimately reworked to instead be a star vehicle for Angelina Jolie. Was this an upgrade? Are influences of the Bourne films a hindrance or a benefit? And how does the movie, while only being a little over ten years old, hold up today, in a landscape now dominated by more fanciful superhero fare? Join us as we get salty (sorry, not sorry) while discussing all this and more.