Eric Vespe
Expertise
Stephen King Books And Movies, Steven Spielberg Films, Star Wars
- Vespe was only 14 years old when he conducted his first celebrity interview with legendary comedian George Carlin for his high school newspaper and has continued down that geeky path ever since.
- Vespe began writing for Ain't It Cool News while still in high school. He spent the next 20+ years at that site doing interviews, writing reviews and covering every corner of film from geeky tentpoles to Sundance darlings and crazy foreign films.
- He is currently the co-host and producer of The Kingcast, a podcast dedicated to the work of Stephen King. The Kingcast has been lauded by Entertainment Weekly, Variety and Austin Monthly as a go-to podcast for horror fans, with guests like Jamie Lee Curtis, Elijah Wood, Bill Hader, Rian Johnson and even Stephen King himself coming in on a weekly basis.
Experience
A veteran of the online blogging wars, Eric Vespe has been writing about movies in some form or another for 26 years and has traveled the world to conduct interviews and visit movie sets. In addition to his work for Ain't It Cool News and /Film, he's written for Collider, Playboy, Popular Mechanics, Fangoira, and Syfy Wire. He has been fascinated by the process of movie-making since he was a kid and has built a rather large collection of DVDs and Blu-Rays, and he won't stop until his house turns into his own private video store. Vespe is passionate about movies, old and new, and storytelling of all shapes and sizes, be they fiction novels, video games or even podcasts.
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Stories By Eric Vespe
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Mark Hamill, like many Star Wars actors, also auditioned for Carrie in the same building on that same day. He ended up mistaking George Lucas for someone else.
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Chris Evans found the perfect way to play Captain America, one that saved the character from feeling as useless as previous screen incarnations had.
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James Cameron, the master of bringing films under budget and on time, axed a massive sequence from True Lies when he realized that it would blow the schedule.
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One of Mark Hamill's Star Wars regrets involves a certain Wampa.
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Jamie Lee Curtis is irreplaceable as Laurie Strode in Halloween ... but John Carpenter didn't always know that, and almost cast a Jaws 2 actress in the part.
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Before Charlie Hunnam became a household name as Jax Teller on Sons of Anarchy, he auditioned to play Anakin Skywalker in the Star Wars prequels.
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It takes a special kind of person to roll down 222 very real stone steps, which is what Vincent Bouillon did when doubling Keanu Reeves in John Wick: Chapter 4.
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Mickey Rourke plays one of the MCU's best, most imposing villains in Iron Man 2, but it took Robert Downey Jr. on the press circuit to convince him to come on.
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Adam Driver is frequently reminded (sometimes almost daily) about the scene where Kylo Ren kills you-know-who in Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
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Star Wars was harder to shoot than you might think, and you probably think it was pretty hard. Case in point, odd radio signals that distracted Mark Hamill.
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Timothee Chalamet is the third actor to play chocolatier Willy Wonka in a studio picture, but how does he rank among Gene Wilder and Johnny Depp?
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Robert Downey Jr. added creative flourishes to Tony Stark in the first Iron Man movie that Marvel kept throughout the course of the franchise.
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In an alternate universe, Star Wars X-wing pilot Porkins would have been a human version of Jabba the Hutt.
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David Gordon Green needed the perfect photo of a young seventies dude for Halloween Kills ... so he got one of Bob Odenkirk, naturally.
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Daisy Ridley joins us in being totally blindsided by Rey's return in the Star Wars movie, and here's why she didn't see it coming.
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Andy Serkis loved playing Snoke in the Star Wars sequel films, but didn't exactly love how he went out.
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Was Hilary Swank's rumored cameo in Iron Man a deliberate lie on Marvel's part, or was the whole thing just a big misunderstanding? Let's investigate.
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As the MCU tries to find its footing post-Infinity Saga, Loki is thriving in his own little Marvel corner of Disney+.
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Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho contains one of the biggest twists in cinema history, but it was never in the book.
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Beverly Hills Cop 4 is still happening, and we've got an image of Eddie Murphy as Axel Foley to prove it.
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Becoming the face of The Twilight Zone led to some unexpected (and unwanted) attention for Rod Serling.
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SAG-AFTRA's negotiators have agreed to the latest studio deal, tentatively bringing to end the longest actors' strike in the film and TV industry's history.
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Superhero movies have been declining at the box office ... is now the time for the video game movie?
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George Lucas bet big on the Star Wars franchise before he even knew if the first film would take off. The winnings of that bet are now film history.
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One of the most famous line exchanges from the entire Star Wars saga took a few takes to get right, and not everyone on set was having a good time.
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Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One has been delayed until 2025, and will possibly undergo a complete title change.
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George Lucas was so stressed out by the process of finishing all the sound mixes for 1977's Star Wars that he completely forgot his movie premiered.