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The Treatment

Robert Zemeckis and Tom Rothman: The Walk

Robert Zemeckis and Tom Rothman discuss difficulties in large studio filmmaking and the balance of making an "anti-authoritarian" film that the entire family can enjoy.

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By Elvis Mitchell • Oct 7, 2015 • 29m Listen

Special effects pioneer and director Robert Zemeckis sits down with Elvis Mitchell along with chairman of Sony Pictures and producer Tom Rothman, to discuss the struggles involved in making high-stakes studio films and the thought process of highlighting the story line of the "outsider" in The Walk.

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    Elvis Mitchell

    host of KCRW’s The Treatment

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    Blake Veit

    Producer, 'The Treatment'

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    Robert Zemeckis

    filmmaker

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    Tom Rothman

    Sony Pictures

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