Fully Operational

Episode 48. The Taylor Sheridan Experience: Without Remorse

• Fully Operational • Season 2 • Episode 17

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Tom Clancy's novel, Without Remorse has been waiting for the Hollywood treatment for years—even Keanu Reeves was attached back in the day—so who knew it would end up in the lap of screenwriter Taylor Sheridan and director Stefano Sollima of Sicario: Day of the Soldado fame? Probably no one.

But before we get into all the Michael B. Jordan action-thriller tête-à-tête, we have to talk about what we watched this week.

Dre saw three movies this week, including The Firm (not the Tom Cruise/John Grisham one, the one from 1988 with Gary Oldman & Lesley Manville about soccer hooligans); the throwback legal thriller The Lincoln Lawyer, featuring Matthew McConaughey, based on the book by Michael Connelly; and Wild Mountain Thyme, the John Patrick Shanley film based on his play, starring Emily Blunt, Jamie Dornan. Jon Hamm and Christopher Walken.

Goodman beat Dre by watching four movies (!!!!), including the new Netflix sci-fi film, Stowaway, about a space mission to Mars where things get disrupted by a stowaway; Dark Waters, the latest 'Civil Action'-style legal drama about how corporations are the worst things ever; The Silencing, starring Game of Thrones' Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Annabelle Wallis, about a hunter and a sheriff seeking a serial killer, which feels like it owes a bit of a debt to Taylor Sheridan's Wind River; and Spike Lee's heist film, Inside Man, starring Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster and Christopher Plummer (RIP) and still holds up.

Then we go all zero dark thirty with a bunch of Navy Seals to discuss Tom Clancy's Without Remorse. We talk Taylor and Stefano Sollima, the cast, including Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Bell, Jodie Turner-Smith and Guy Pearce (and Colman Domingo—blink and you miss him!), quotes, trivia and more!

Next week we head to Texas for some good old-fashioned Comanche references with Hell or High Water.

SONG CREDITS:
Theme music: "70s Funk" by Frank Cogliano
Closing music: "This is My Jam" by Will Van De Crommert