Action Addicts Podcast

Today we are joined by @KyleDHiggins who discusses his time in the comic book industry, his short films, helping friends out and his unique perspective on adaptations and the entertainment sector as a whole.

Was even funnier for me, given David had been a recurring character on Martial Law the year before getting humbled by Sammo on the regular 🤣

@zoeelizabethjpg Happy Birthday Zoe. Hope you are having a blast!

Feeling extra beautiful and extra greedy on my birthday 😈 send for my drinks tonight and confess your undying devotion to me or leave me alone!!

This was an incredibly hard decision for me to make and I more than a little anxious & embarrassed to be at this point. But, I have been really unwell for a long time & I need your help. Anything, even sharing the link, is appreciated - gofund.me/432e7bafc

@theericjacobus Yes. No. None.

Question: Do you procrastinate? Does it help push you to get things done? What tools do you use to make sure the thing actually gets done?

You heard 'em. Koolest f**king movie of the summer! Get your tickets to Mortal Kombat II, in theaters and @IMAX May 8. #MortalKombatMovie

@kickassvargas @kungfupete @AndrewMGorham Well. That sounds horrific.

@kungfupete @AndrewMGorham she got sick after the first day and couldn’t make the second so he gave her a very quick unrealistic deadline to give back the money and the wardrobe. It was all extremely unprofessional.

Pro-tip: never work for a Director who tries to pit Stunt people against each other behind our backs. That is unacceptable and actually makes a set extremely unsafe. Never dealt with a situation like this before.

Can't wait! Congrats, Kenji, and all involved!

@MarshallRTeague Happy Anniversary guys!

I do, I do..I’d do it ALL again 28yrs & STILL like the 1st Anniversary The Universe definitely got this right💘

New book coming next Friday!

@JorCru Yup. Learning about what went into things and how wrong a lot of assumptions are is very difficult to get people to comprehend.

@AddictsAction It’s an assumption that really degrades what truly goes into making something!

I feel like people watch an independent movie and think “What was that like $50,000?” and it was realistically in the low millions. And god NOW? Everything is so god damn expensive to do!

This is a topic of discussion for my guests for a reason. Johnny Yong Bosch making Spades for 50K is a lot more impressive than the average person will ever appreciate.

Discovering that many film and cultural commentators don’t really understand or have any conception of how much money actually goes into a production and no, it’s not just Hollywood ones that cost more than you think

@TheLewisTan Can't wait to see it! Should be a good time for all.

The upcoming Mortal Kombat world tour feels uniquely meaningful. When the first film was released in 2021, at the height of COVID, we never had the chance to truly share it together, no full theatrical release, no premiere, no audience to feel it with. I did press alone in a hotel room, my laptop balanced on a shoebox after weeks of quarantine. And yet, the film still reached the world. It became one of the most watched films of that year, carried by the fans who love this franchise like we do. That’s what makes this moment feel so significant. This time, we get to come together, properly, to celebrate the sequel with audiences around the world. It’s been a long time coming, and it means more because of everything it took to get here. I can’t wait to see you all. Bring your friends, your family, make an event of it. Dress up and get ready to party, experience it on the biggest screen you can find. This is a defining moment. IYKYK MK for life

AMC spent almost $100 million making Season 3 of this show. Two full film crews. 300 people on set every day. Then they cancelled it. The show is Into the Badlands. It ran on AMC (the network that made Breaking Bad and The Walking Dead) from 2015 to 2019. It's a martial arts show set in a post-apocalyptic America 500 years from now, where swords have replaced guns and warlords rule the land. Daniel Wu, an American-born martial arts champion, starred in it and produced it. Wu told Den of Geek the show ran two separate film units at the same time. One for action, one for dialogue. 150 people on each. Each episode cost $6 to $7 million to make, which is roughly Game of Thrones money for a cable show almost nobody ended up watching. The fight choreographer was Master Dee Dee Ku. His teacher was Yuen Woo-ping, the man who did the fights in The Matrix and Kill Bill. Ku himself worked on Kill Bill, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, and Iron Monkey. He put the cast through a six-week boot camp, six hours a day, learning kung fu, weapons, and wire work. Stephen Fung, who directed the Chinese film Tai Chi Zero, ran the whole action unit. They used real wires for the flying scenes instead of computer effects, which is how old Hong Kong movies did it. The premiere pulled 8.2 million viewers in November 2015, the third-biggest cable show launch ever at that time. AMC had it airing right after The Walking Dead, which at its peak was drawing 14 million people a week. When The Walking Dead went off the air between seasons, Badlands lost half its audience. By the Season 3 finale, it was under 1 million viewers per episode. AMC had also stopped promoting the show after Season 1. Cable TV runs on ad money, and that needs big regular audiences. At $6 million per episode, the numbers just weren't adding up. The creators, Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, moved on. A few years later they created Wednesday for Netflix, with Tim Burton directing. It's now the most-watched English-language series in Netflix's history, at 252 million views. Same writers making the same kind of dark genre TV, but on a platform that could actually find the audience without needing a Walking Dead to drag people in.

@DanielGorman20 Here’s a new interview if anyone can even see it!!! news.rsclfilms.com/how-to-build-a…

This will be a fantastic conversation!! Check it out!!!

Today we are joined by @KyleDHiggins who discusses his time in the comic book industry, his short films, helping friends out and his unique perspective on adaptations and the entertainment sector as a whole.

I think Cobra Kai is officially my new favorite show. Every single episode has been a masterpiece.