BP227 Apocalypto - with Joy Wilkinson
Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan, Tom Salinsky and special guest Joy Wilkinson
Episode 227: Apocalypto
Released 24 August 2022
For this episode, we were joined by filmmaker Joy Wilkinson who brought us, of all things, a Mel Gibson film. Apocalypto was written by Farhad Safinia and Gibson directed by Gibson. It is a Mayan-language adventure film with a cast of unknowns. It cost $40m to make and brought in $120m at the box office, with decent reviews and Oscar nominations for its Makeup, Sound Editing and Sound Mixing. It has a 65% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
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