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EDGAR WRIGHT HASN’T stopped running since November. “It’s appropriate for The Running Man,” he laughs, having finally taken a breather from directing his new film at Leavesden to give a world-exclusive first-look interview to Empire. “It’s a marathon. We’ve already shot in London and Glasgow, we’re going to Bulgaria… It’s quite the ambitious endeavour.” The Running Man was, of course, the 1987 movie in which Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Ben Richards donned a yellow onesie and entered a killer futuristic game show, taking out a horde of Hunters to stay alive. It was very much an Arnie movie, with plenty of quips and cool kills. But Wright is not remaking that movie. Instead, he’s zeroing in on the original source material, a 1982 novel by one Richard Bachman, aka Stephen King. “One…

UNTITLED JOSEPH KOSINSKI UFO MOVIE Joseph Kosinski is reteaming with his Top Gun: Maverick producer Jerry Bruckheimer on a UFO conspiracy thriller. Described as “All The President’s Men with aliens”, the movie — penned by Zach Baylin — has sparked a massive bidding war between many major Hollywood studios. GOODBYE JUNE Kate Winslet will make her directorial debut with a Netflix-bound drama co-starring Winslet alongside Toni Collette, Johnny Flynn, Andrea Riseborough, Timothy Spall and Helen Mirren. Due to shoot “soon”, the film focuses on a fractious set of siblings as trying times pull them together. NOWHERE FAST Chris Pine is returning to Texas for the first time since Hell Or High Water to lead Fargo creator Noah Hawley’s latest, an original crime thriller set in the Lone Star state. The…

WANT AN EPIC cinematic universe? Create an epic writers’ room. That was James Cameron’s strategy when it came to his Avatar sequels: he handpicked four screenwriters to join him in creating a vast story, then assigned them each a slice of the Pandoran pie. Josh Friedman got Avatar 4. Shane Salerno got Avatar 5. And Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver, the husband-and-wife team behind Rise and Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes, ended up working on two screenplays with Cameron: The Way Of Water and this year’s Fire And Ash. Here, the trio discuss the process. Can you describe a day in the Avatar writers’ room? James Cameron: When you’re putting together a writers’ room, what you look for is the quality of the joke-telling and the personal hygiene. Fairly…

FOR SOME ACTORS, a social-media presence is a choice. “I like that people don’t know my business. I just fundamentally believe that they don’t need to,” Saoirse Ronan has said of her online absence. For others, however, accruing and maintaining a robust Instagram or TikTok following is not just helpful to their careers; it’s essential. It’s a grievance that Maya Hawke recently aired on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, after it became apparent that despite her wishes, scrubbing her Instagram profile and its 8.9 million fans was not an option. “I’m talking [to directors] about how I’m going to delete my Instagram, and they’re like, ‘Just so you know, when I’m casting a movie, with some producers, they hand me a sheet with the amount of collective followers I have…

OUT NOW (PRIME VIDEO) / EPISODES VIEWED 8 OF 8 SHOWRUNNER Nick Santora CAST Alan Ritchson, Maria Sten, Anthony Michael Hall, Olivier Richters, Sonya Cassidy Three seasons into Reacher, you know exactly what you’re getting from Prime Video’s version of Lee Child’s crime fighting giant. Based on the seventh Reacher novel, Persuader, this tale finds Alan Ritchson’s titular hero pulling double duty, working undercover for the DEA to rescue an informant while also looking to settle an old score. It’s all entertaining but workmanlike, and moments of inspiration are too few and far between. Still, the televisual escape Reacher offers — watching a hypercompetent man with a righteous moral compass taking justice into his own brawny hands and setting the world straight — is more comforting than ever.…

OUT 21 MARCH / CERT 18 / 92 MINS DIRECTOR Kyle Mooney CAST Jaeden Martell, Julian Dennison, Rachel Zegler, Fred Durst A turn-of-the-millennium throwback that leans too heavily on nostalgia, Y2K is part romcom, part horror, and too unfocused to commit to either one. When introvert Eli (Jaeden Martell) finds himself at a party with best friend Danny (Julian Dennison) and popular tech wiz Laura (Rachel Zegler), all hell breaks loose via self-aware murder-bots assembled from household electronics. These tech monsters want all humans to conform, a theme that seldom connects to the movie’s colourful characters, while Kyle Mooney doesn’t find his directorial groove, assembling a haphazard film with flimsy set-ups and payoffs that come out of the blue. On the plus side, at least the hair and outfits are…

A THOUSAND BLOWS TV “Stephen Graham’s metamorphosis is incredible, dialling up the violence of This Is England’s Combo and finding a sense of frenzied, animalistic rage. Underneath the toxic masculinity and unwillingness to embrace the new ways, there’s a surprising complexity to the character.” NICOLA AUSTIN SISTER MIDNIGHT FILM “Karan Kandhari’s feature debut initially plays like a marriage comedy, before a mid-movie revelation zigzags clumsily and inconsistently between plotlines. Still, you’ve got to applaud Kandhari for having the guts to crack open his movie and reshape it into something altogether different.” YASMIN OMAR KINDA PREGNANT FILM “Deeply misconceived and steadily unfunny, this feels longer than its running time. A few moments of emotional honesty between mothers are the only bits worth watching, but they’re too scant to save this mess.”…

“MY INTENTION IS TO SIT HERE AND T ELL YOU ALL OF WHO I AM.” It’s not a sentiment one often hears expressed in an interview. It’s an even rarer thing for it to be meant, and felt. But that’s exactly the brand of direct, open honesty you get when you talk to Giancarlo Esposito. It’s part of his nature. Esposito has long been that reassuringly reliable character actor who will always improve a project by a factor of approximately 27 per cent every minute he’s on screen. Roles in iconic films like Do The Right Thing, The Usual Suspects and Malcolm X were early indicators of his limitless talent. But it was his turn as the calm and collected drug kingpin Gus Fring in Vince Gilligan’s hit drama Breaking…

ROOF PURSUIT (MERANTAU WARRIOR) Evans’ little-seen first pairing with Iko Uwais, Indonesia’s Merantau Warrior, has enough dust-ups to fill a dozen action movies. The incredible chase scene that sees Uwais’ Yuda run across roofs, down rickety bamboo scaffolding, and through an alleyway while beating the shit out of allcomers, is the pick of the bunch. DOG FIGHT (THE RAID) Almost every sequence in The Raid is a ten on Empire’s patented ‘oofometer’, as all kinds of pain is dished out, but the emotional kicker comes after a staggering fight between Joe Taslim’s stoic Sgt Jaka and Yayan Ruhian’s psychotic Mad Dog, that ends with one of the film’s true heroes going out in heartbreaking fashion. FORKING HELL (THE RAID 2) The final 45 minutes of the more expansive Raid sequel…

CHRIS HEWITT BECAME AN HONORARY THUNDERBOLT “I went to Atlanta last year to visit the set of Marvel Studios’ Thunderbolts*, and got to hold the shield of Wyatt Russell’s John Walker, which had been bent out of shape by… something. They called it the Taco Shield, which just made me hungry.” ROBERT ASCROFT PHOTOGRAPHED GIANCARLO ESPOSITO “Collaborating with Giancarlo was a true privilege. His innate creativity and willingness to fully embody a character brought an electric energy to our shoot. What a remarkable day with an extraordinary force of talent.” BETH WEBB HOSTED OUR EMPIRE VIP SCREENING OF FLOW “A cosy afternoon was spent in the company of director Gints Zilbalodis — and his brave on-screen feline — for our preview of his award-winning animation. Special kudos to the girl…

1987: (WO)MAN CREATES DINOSAUR It was a former teacher, Sheryl Leach, who created the six-foot PB&J-loving purple Tyrannosaurus rex as a way to teach kids life lessons and skills. Keen to make a show that would hold the attention of her own two-year-old son, she came up with the character after a visit to a travelling dinosaur exhibition in Dallas. For the show, Barney naturally needed a family-friendly makeover, so became a stuffed toy brought to life instead, devoid of sharp teeth and claws and in a gender-neutral colour. Leach would go on to describe herself in interviews as “Barney’s mom”. 1992: T-REX ON THE TV Initially picked up by PBS for a 30-episode run, Barney & Friends became a runaway hit, drawing in an average of 1.7 million viewers…

IN THE WORLD of James Bond, jaws haven’t dropped this hard and fast since Jaws himself suffered a mid-air parachute malfunction in Moonraker. On 20 February, Amazon MGM Studios announced that long-time 007 custodians Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson had ceded creative control of the superspy’s future to the entertainment giant to the tune of $1 billion. “With the conclusion of No Time To Die and Michael retiring from the films, I feel it is time to focus on my other projects,” Broccoli said. The news has concerned many fans, with fears ranging from earnest (the kind of branddilution some perceive in the Marvel and Star Wars IPs) to far-fetched (Jeff Bezos casting himself as Bond). The Amazon founder even took to X shortly after the news broke to…

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PC, XBOX SERIES X|S YOU ARE THE Envoy to the Emperor of Aedyr, sent to the untamed Living Lands to investigate the strange ‘Dreamscourge’ — a horrific blight that corrupts man and beast alike, driving them mad with unspoken voices while their bodies erupt with fungal infestations. Yet you are also a ‘Godlike’, altered by the divine before birth, their ethereal touch manifesting on you as mushroom-like protrusions — and ever since you arrived on the strange frontier, you’ve been hearing voices in your head… The mycelium motif may sound bonkers, but it’s integral, not only to Avowed’s protagonist (allowing for a unique character creator that ranges from ‘enoki for hair’ to ‘Swamp Thing’), but also the world you’re exploring. Despite being set in the same universe as developer Obsidian…

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IT IS, IT TURNS OUT, NOT A WRAP. “Not wraps, no. It’s paninis we need,” says Chris Blyth, after one of his chefs checks whether they need to get tortillas or ciabattas from their mobile larder. Empire is at Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden with Hot Goblin, a catering company owned by Blyth that has worked on productions including The Crown, Peep Show and Call The Midwife. His team is cooking for the 400-strong cast of The Franchise: last year’s HBO metadrama following a film crew’s less-than-heroic attempts to make a superhero movie. “There are actors playing runners next to runners helping actors,” Blyth says. Luckily, he confirms, they’re not in competition with any pretend caterers. A rainbow has arched its way across the sky, leading not to pots of gold,…

AT FIRST, THERE’S nothing — only smoke. Gradually, though, the fog dissipates and we can make out a dingy hallway, full of cobwebs and candelabras. There’s music, too: a fairground organ wheezing dementedly beneath a piano — one key tap-tap-tapping like a leaking pipe. And then, out of the darkness, she appears. Her face is deathly pale, her wasp-waisted body clad in all black, her eyebrows like bats’ wings. As she reaches the end of the corridor she meets our gaze and emits a piercing, bloodcurdling scream — equal parts agony and ecstasy. As the camera jerks forward, seemingly as startled as the viewer, the woman purrs: “Ah! Screaming relaaaaxes me so…” It’s 1954 and America has never seen anything like this. The Vampira Show was bottled lightning — a…

YOU KNOW THE scene, even if you don’t know the film: a black-and-white image of a man and woman entangled on a Hawaiian beach, passionately kissing as the waves wash over them and a swell of lush, romantic, orchestral music rises to a crescendo. The man is Burt Lancaster as the athletic and powerful Sgt Warden; Deborah Kerr is Karen Holmes, Warden’s senior officer’s unhappy wife. Their adulterous affair plays out, sensual and full of yearning, against the backdrop of a military base where tragedy lies in wait. It’s a scene that raised pulses at the time, and remains one of the most famous images in movie history. But there’s much more to From Here To Eternity than romance and rolling around in the surf. In 1953, a little over…

Chris: Slap on your orange filters, folks, because we are going to be discussing the movies of Tony Scott. I’m a big fan. Tony Scott spells “cinema” to me. Nick: You know you’re gonna get explosions, you’re gonna get cars flipping up in the air— Chris: And that’s just The Hunger. Nick: You know you’re gonna get dialogue scenes shot for no apparent reason from a helicopter. But he’s under-appreciated. Chris: He is. I don’t want to turn this into a Ridley versus Tony thing, but they’re such an interesting study in contrasts. Their styles were so different, their approaches were so different. But I think he was every bit Ridley’s equal, and his impact on action cinema is as great as any director of the last 30 to 40…

AMFAD: ALL MY FRIENDS ARE DEAD (DIGITAL) Most contemporary slasher movies feature either influencers who deserve to get hacked to bits or an Airbnb kitted out as a torture chamber. Marcus Dunstan’s AMFAD is both — and also a serial-killer picture. Watchable but defiantly shallow on top of proudly derivative. BARBER (DIGITAL) Gay Dublin private eye Aidan Gillen searches for a missing girl during the pandemic. Fintan Connolly’s Guinness noir has a regulation plot, but Gillen puts a nice spin on the classic shabby detective. One of very few (so far) films to highlight rather than ignore weirdness circa 2020. DARK WINDS: SEASON 2 (BLU-RAY) Season 2 of the Tony Hillerman-derived series finds Navajo cop Zahn McClarnon (outstanding) investigating a sinister cult. A great 1970s-set Western, solid mystery thriller and…

LETTER OF THE MONTH A MESSAGE FROM THE RED ROOM .eeffoc enif nmad emos rof skaeP niwT ot tisiv nruter a, pots tsriF. yhpargomlif sih ni evah I spag eht gulp ot dna elihw a rof nees t’nevah I smlif eht hctawer ot eugolatac ykook sih otni kcab evid ot dellepmoc leef I, hcnyL divaD taerg, etal eht no erutaef eht ot sknahT CHARLES JOHNSON, VIA EMAIL It took us about two hours to figure out what was going on here. We had to ask the Log Lady for help. For your ingenious letter, Charles, have a Picturehouse membership on us. It will be delivered via a talking luminescent tree. Empire’s star letter wins a Picturehouse Membership, valid for one year at all Picturehouse Cinemas across the UK, including the…

BETH WEBB IS THINKING ABOUT… BENOIT BLANC’S BOUFFANT A fresh line-up of suspects isn’t the only new addition to the Knives Out series. Everyone’s favourite Colonel Sanders soundalike has a changed-up floppy coiff for Wake Up Dead Man. Could this spell a more boho Blanc? Here’s hoping. ALEX GODFREY IS THINKING ABOUT… THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ROGER RABBIT I watched the film again and the cartoon at the start is SO GOOD. A masterclass in slapstick violence. All of the Roger Rabbit shorts were wild, and the last one was in 1993! It is so ripe for reinvention. Disney+, sort it out! JOHN NUGENT IS THINKING ABOUT… THE OTHER WITCH FILM The only Wizard Of Oz adaptation I’m interested in is the bizarre-looking Russian film The Wizard Of Emerald City, in…

HENCHMEN ORIGINS: NICK NACK PITCH: This villain’s origin story would focus on Scaramanga’s peanut-toting servant. Witness his training as a cordon-bleu chef, see his previous attempts to murder his boss in their weirdly elaborate assassins’ training facility, and probe deeper into his vengeful nature. He may be small, but he never forgets. Q-BRANCH: A BRITISH WORKPLACE PITCH: This sitcom peeks inside the lab that makes Bond’s fancy tech. Q’s assistant Smithers (introduced in For Your Eyes Only, not to be confused with the colonel from Goldfinger) tries to support the double-0s despite being routinely humiliated by his boss testing his gadgets on him — with hilarious (and explosive) results. GOGOLBOX PITCH: Watch M’s KGB counterpart General Gogol and his secretary Rubelvitch as they sit down to watch every Bond movie…

TWO MICHAEL B. JORDANS! SINNERS Ryan Coogler loves working with his Creed lead so much, he has him playing identical twin brothers in this Jim Crow-era-set vampire horror. Their seventh collaboration sees Jordan’s Elijah and Elias Smoke battling violent bloodsuckers in their hometown. At least we know one of them can throw a punch. TWO ROBERT DE NIROS! THE ALTO KNIGHTS You’d have thought the GoodFellas star had exhausted the gangster genre over his 60-year career, and yet here he is playing a pair of them in Barry Levinson’s Mob drama. The actor stars as the real-life heads of rival crime families, proving that the only person capable of defeating De Niro onscreen is another De Niro. 18 ROBERT PATTINSONS! MICKEY 17 R-Patz’s disposable clone racks up a hell of…

What one thing do you do better than anyone else you know? Organise drawers. I’m really, really good. If you have a junk drawer — like the drawer in a kitchen with everything in it — I’m so good at organising that. It gives me a lot of pleasure. You just need a good podcast, some patience and those little [dividers]. When were you most starstruck? When I was in high school, my dad had an office building and he’d rent out the basement. The Rolling Stones came to shoot a video there for their Steel Wheels album, I think. We were lurking in the basement and we could see Mick Jagger, but only from the knees down. It was never quite confirmed that it was Mick Jagger, but I…

OUT NOW (PARAMOUNT+) / EPISODES VIEWED 4 OF 10 SHOWRUNNERS Ashley Lyle, Bart Nickerson, Jonathan Lisco CAST Melanie Lynskey, Christina Ricci, Sophie Thatcher, Sophie Nélisse, Tawny Cypress Things are looking up for the teenage plane-crash-survivors turned reformed cannibals in this latest run of the timehopping show. In 1998, the gang are now thriving; in 2021, some semblance of normalcy is found. But the calm is short-lived. Giving the present-day characters a break from their shared turmoil leads to sincerely lovely moments that increase our affection for each of the remaining crew, and Sophie Nélisse proves the MVP of the wilderness cast. Things start slow, but all the ingredients that make Yellowjackets special are there — banging ’90s indie-rock, grisly plot twists, and complicated women.…

OUT NOW / SKY / NOW / EPISODES WATCHED 6 OF 8 SHOWRUNNER Mike White CAST Jason Isaacs, Parker Posey, Walton Goggins, Aimee Lou Wood As the bullet-strewn Season 2 finale of Mike White’s anthology confirmed, nobody is safe, no matter how lovable the character. So when a new ensemble of guests check in to the White Lotus Thailand a week before an on-site fatality, the targets on theirs and the hotel staff’s backs only bolster the season’s unrelenting tension. Casting is always an event for this show, and Jason Isaacs and Parker Posey stand out as pill-popping parents, as does Aimee Lou Wood’s grounded and likeable Mancunian free spirit. It takes a few episodes to gain momentum, but White’s jamboree of misery plays to the strengths of its predecessors…

AUTHOR MARYA E. GATES IT’S NO MEAN feat to gather a significant number of women directors to talk about their craft, because almost all are impossibly weary about being asked to opine endlessly about directing as women. How else are they going to direct? Immense credit, then, to Marya E. Gates, a film writer and interviewer, for getting so many to talk so openly about their work. The result is 19 lengthy interviews with women working today and pioneers who led the way through the 1980s and 1990s. What emerges strikingly is the vast diversity of their experiences. The directors who have stuck exclusively to the independent sphere have generally made films that received barely any distribution and often remain hard to find, but they’ve done so on their own…

HULK SMASH THE AVENGERS The then-called Stark Tower was first introduced in the original Avengers movie: nothing can beat the instantly iconic scene where Hulk (Mark Ruffalo) ragdolls a preening Loki (Tom Hiddleston) into the pristine floor of Stark’s living quarters. ROBOT ROCK AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON Stark soon sold the renamed Avengers Tower — while impressive architecture, it’s also filled with bad memories. Namely, it’s the place where Ultron was born, rudely interrupting a carefree party where the Avengers got slightly buzzed and tried to pull on Thor’s hammer. HAPPY GO LOKI AVENGERS: ENDGAME You can’t keep a good erection down, though. And Avengers Tower returned in the timey-wimey bit of Endgame where Tony and his team looped through the events of the first Avengers movie. They don’t quite…

AVATAR: THE OFFICIAL COOKBOOK OF PANDORA Want to eat like a Na’vi? Now’s your chance, with a selection of recipes inspired by James Cameron’s blue moon. ‘The damp rainforests of Pandora provide the Na’vi with plenty of fungi,’ reads the introduction to the Ovumshroom Burger. Which is suspiciously like a mushroom burger, should you wish to eat a mushroom burger. THE UNOFFICIAL STRANGER THINGS COOKBOOK Head to 1980s Hawkins, via Stranger Wings, Hopper’s Doughnuts, the Upside Down Burger and, erm, French Toast Jonathan Style (“to keep Jonathan fuelled all day”). Jesus wept. Full marks, though, for the Demogorgonzola. STAR WARS: THE LIFE DAY COOKBOOK The Star Wars Holiday Special truly is the gift that keeps on giving. Here, then, are recipes for galactic feasts, including Spiced Bogwings, Pickled Mynock, Eopie…

50 Episodes of The Vampira Show aired between 1954 and 1955. $59.60 Nurmi’s weekly take-home pay on the show. “It all went on taxis and body make-up,” she claimed. 2 Songs written about Nurmi by famous punk bands: 1979’s ‘Plan 9 Channel 7’ by The Damned, and 1982’s ‘Vampira’ by The Misfits. 17 Nurmi’s waist, in inches, at the height of Vampira’s fame. Or so it was said. Her hourglass figure was down to fasting and smothering her torso with papaya powder. 75 Age of Nurmi’s son, David, when he discovered his ancestry in 2019. “Imagine being a retired attorney… then one day, [you] find that your birth mother was a famous vampire,” he recalled. “It was startling to say the least.” $200 Amount Orson Welles reportedly offered Nurmi’s mother,…

1 THE PENGUIN (OUT 17 MARCH, DVD/BR) Colin Farrell deservedly won an Emmy for his incredibly layered turn as the Batman villain who swaps his soul for social climbing in Gotham. Never mind the (astonishing) prosthetics — feel the pathos as Farrell and showrunner Lauren LeFranc manipulate you into rooting for a monster. 2 YOJIMBO & SANJURO (OUT 17 MARCH, BR) You can never go wrong with an Akira Kurosawa/Toshirô Mifune double bill, and the BFI have duly obliged with this pair of wonderful samurai flicks. Yojimbo, in which Mifune plays two warring factions like a harp, is the best-known and most influential, but the lighter, more playful Sanjuro is an utter delight. 3 WICKED (OUT NOW, DVD/BR/4K/DIGITAL) Do you really like it? Is it, is it Wicked? You did, which is why…

THE ORIGIN Blue Velvet lifts the lid on suburbia, revealing all of the underlying unpleasantness. And there is nobody in the film as unpleasant as Dennis Hopper’s psychotic, abusive, gas-glugging bastard, Frank Booth. Around 40 minutes in, Frank arrives at Dorothy Vallens’ (Isabella Rossellini) apartment, demands bourbon, calls himself ‘Daddy’, huffs a load of gas, and then calls himself ‘Baby’ while sexually assaulting her. He forbids Dorothy from looking at him, and punches her for doing so; that, explained Lynch, is because Frank doesn’t want to see his reflection in her eyes, to “come face to face with sickness”. Hopper loved the role, calling Lynch before the shoot to tell him, “I am Frank Booth”: as the actor later explained, he related to the character as he was “coming out…

RON PERLMAN HAS something to declare. “You know, it’s funny,” he tells Empire. “If you send me to the store with a list of things you need for me to get, I’ll show up two weeks later and say, ‘Sorry, I got lost.’ But in this business of acting, I remember everything.” That’s something we’re about to put to the test as we take Perlman, the grizzly character actor who’s made such a memorable impact in a multitude of movies (often working with Guillermo del Toro) over the last 40-odd years, down memory lane ahead of the release of his latest, Jack Huston’s directorial debut, Day Of The Fight. And, true to his word, he delivers. SECONDS OUT DAY OF THE FIGHT (2025) “I’ve not seen this particular image before. I’d…

THIS MONTH JULIA ROBERTS 1 She made her big-screen debut in a film starring Justine Bateman as the lead singer in a rock band. What is the name of that film? 2 How many Academy Award nominations has she received? a) two b) three c) four 3 She won the Oscar for Best Actress, of course, for her role as Erin Brockovich in the movie of the same name. Who directed it? 4 How many times has she been directed by that man, including Erin Brockovich? 5 What is the name of her character in Pretty Woman? 6 When Hugh Grant’s Will inadvertently interviews Roberts’ Anna in Notting Hill, what magazine does he claim to work for? 7 What is ‘the Mexican’ in the Gore Verbinski movie of the same…

CHRISTOPHER ABBOTT: “As much of a film-nerd guy as I am, Mrs. Doubtfire was a movie I watched a lot as a kid, and is one of the best movies about divorce. There’s an insane amount of great scenes. The end, where he picks [the children] up, is one of the more beautiful. That movie holds such a place in my heart.” INT. MIRANDA’S HOUSE (HALL) — DAY The new babysitter has arrived to pick up Miranda’s children, Lydia (Lisa Jakub), Christopher (Matthew Lawrence) and Natalie (Mara Wilson). After losing access to their dad Daniel, after his stint disguising himself as a fake nanny called Mrs. Doubtfire, they are unenthused by the prospect. But when Miranda opens the door, they are stunned to see it’s Daniel. NATALIE: Daddy? DANIEL: Hi.…