Adventist Voices by Spectrum: The Journal of the Adventist Forum

Rian Johnson on Wake Up Dead Man

Adventist Voices by Spectrum: The Journal of the Adventist Forum

Show Notes

Alexander Carpenter inaugurates Spectrum’s new series on the arts with an interview with filmmaker Rian Johnson. He directed Star Wars: The Last Jedi and created the Knives Out mystery series on Netflix. Alexander asks the former evangelical about his classic “Fly” episode from Breaking Bad and about all the Catholic iconography in Johnson’s new theologically rich mystery, Wake Up Dead Man.

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