Amazing Stories & Shorts!
Episode 6, Sep 24, 2020, 05:54 PM
Richard and Kyle find Bobby Z in excellent form working with cinema in slightly shorter form. His Amazing Stories episode is a classic Halloween horror comedy, a great glimpse of where he would go with Death Becomes Her.
Fresh off the overwhelming success of Back to the Future, Spielberg invites Zemeckis to direct the Halloween double episode of the 80s anthology TV show, Amazing Stories. It's a joyous 40 minute victory lap, pushing hard against the boundaries of a television budget. So fun you'll lose your head.
Seeing Zemeckis work in the TV space for the first time seemed like a great occasion to chat about his two early shorts: The Lift and A Field of Honor. The latter of which won him a student Academy Award and impressed Spielberg, leading to friendship, mentorship, and the producing of his first feature. Buckle up...it's the film John Milius called 'socially irresponsible'.
Seeing Zemeckis work in the TV space for the first time seemed like a great occasion to chat about his two early shorts: The Lift and A Field of Honor. The latter of which won him a student Academy Award and impressed Spielberg, leading to friendship, mentorship, and the producing of his first feature. Buckle up...it's the film John Milius called 'socially irresponsible'.