{"podcast":{"title":"The Director’s Cut - A DGA Podcast","slug":"the-director-s-cut-a-dga-podcast-522801","podcast_index_feed_id":522801,"rss_url":"https://feed.podbean.com/thedirectorscutadgapodcast/feed.xml","website_url":"https://thedirectorscutdga.podbean.com","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/3908805/Large_Logo_PS6tk3k.jpg","author":"Directors Guild of America","episode_count":612,"summary":"Brought to you by the Directors Guild of America, ”The Director’s Cut” will bring you the behind-the-scenes stories of today’s most talked about films. Each episode features a different director interviewed by one of their peers, leading to revealing conversations about the grueling, but rewarding process of bringing their films to life.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-director-s-cut-a-dga-podcast-522801"},"episode":{"title":"Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery with Rian Johnson and Jon Watts (Ep. 594)","slug":"wake-up-dead-man-a-knives-out-mystery-with-rian-johnson-and-jon-watts-ep-594","published_at":"2025-12-31T21:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-director-s-cut-a-dga-podcast-522801/wake-up-dead-man-a-knives-out-mystery-with-rian-johnson-and-jon-watts-ep-594","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-director-s-cut-a-dga-podcast-522801","url":"https://thedirectorscutadgapodcast.podbean.com/e/wake-up-dead-man-a-knives-out-mystery-with-rian-johnson-and-jon-watts-ep-594/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/9ex7gbw5ufd9mdb2/Wake_Up_Dead_Man-_A_Knives_Out_Mystery_with_Rian_Johnson_and_Jon_Watts_Ep_594_60jhh.mp3","summary":"Director Rian Johnson discusses his new film, Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, with fellow Director Jon Watts in a Q&A at the DGA theater in Los Angeles. In the conversation, he discusses finding and casting Actor Josh O’Connor, the effort behind crafting and lighting the sets, and how his relationship with faith influenced the film. The film finds Blanc teaming up with an earnest young priest to investigate a perfectly impossible crime. When the leader of a small town church with a dark history dies from seemingly impossible circumstances, Blanc must discover who in the rogues gallery of his congregation committed the crime, and how. See photos and a summary of this event below: https://www.dga.org/events/2026/january2026/wakeupdeadman_qna_1225","meta_description":"Director Rian Johnson discusses his new film, Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, with fellow Director Jon Watts in a Q&A at the DGA theater in Los An…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1918,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-director-s-cut-a-dga-podcast-522801/episodes/wake-up-dead-man-a-knives-out-mystery-with-rian-johnson-and-jon-watts-ep-594/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-director-s-cut-a-dga-podcast-522801/wake-up-dead-man-a-knives-out-mystery-with-rian-johnson-and-jon-watts-ep-594.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}