"My name is Xander Drax."
"What?"
"X-A-N-D-E-R D-R-A-X. Xander Drax. Begins and ends with the letter X."
-- Xander Drax & The Great Kabai Sengh, The Phantom
It is happening again...My co-host with the most Xan Sprouse and I are back with a new episode of Ghostwood: The Twin Peaks Podcast! This time, we continue our retrospective of Twin Peaks Actors in Other Films by discussing The Phantom, the 1996 superhero film directed by Simon Wincer, starring Billy Zane as The 21st Phantom/Kit Walker, Treat Williams as Xander Drax, Catherine Zeta-Jones as Sala, and Patrick McGoohan as The 20th Phantom/Mr. Walker!
LET'S ROCK!
In this episode, Xan and I discuss things like Xan breaking a tooth, both my parents ending up in the hospital at the same time, the original Phantom comic strip by Lee Falk, '90s studio execs trying to capitalize on the popularity of Batman (1989) by making films based on old comic strips and radio shows from their childhoods, Nicholas Hammond needing to be included in Spider-Man: No Way Home, The Phantom feeling a bit like an Indiana Jones movie, the movie being a box office bomb, the Phantom's purple costume being the result of a printing error, the Phantom mantle being passed down through generations, the Phantom being a "white savior", Xan owning a Phantom promo skull ring, Diana and Sala teaming up so they don't get raped by the Sengh Brotherhood, Billy Zane being a good choice for a romanticized classic superhero, the Civic-Minded Five from The Tick animated series, feeling bad for Devil the wolf being in a jungle climate, Xan finally hearing her named spelled correctly on film, Xander Drax mansplaining to the Great Kabai Sengh about the Sengh Brotherhood, the really dark scene of Drax's microscope that stabs people in the eyes with razor blades, Michael Biehn replacing James Remar as Corporal Hicks in Aliens, Diana being told that no one says no to the Phantom, Kristy Swanson as the original Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Kristy Swanson's movie Dream Trap being filmed at the University of Central Florida while I was in college there, Samantha Eggar in The Brood, Patrick McGoohan as Number Six in The Prisoner (1967) and The Simpsons, Iron Maiden's song "The Prisoner", The Phantom being Catherine Zeta-Jones' breakout movie, the Newman music score dynasty, the three Phantom comic strip stories that were the basis for the movie script, Joe Dante's original plans for a tongue-in-cheek Phantom movie, Bruce Campbell being considered for the Phantom, Hugh Hefner's Playboy mansion being used for the Palmer mansion set, Jimmy Wells originally being the Phantom's alter ego in the comic strips, the Phantom's two rings, wondering how the two skulls knew there was a map to point to for the location of the third skull, the Devil's Vortex being a version of the Bermuda Triangle, Xan being a pinball champion for three years running because of the pandemic, DJ Nik and I talking with Doom Patrol's Miracole Burns and Thom Williams on TitanTalk: The Titans Podcast, Vincent D'Onofrio as Thor in Adventures in Babysitting, David Patrick Kelly in The Warriors, and more!
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Be sure to come back in two weeks, as Xan and I continue our retrospective of Twin Peaks Actors in Other Films by discussing The Warriors, the 1979 action thriller film directed by Walter Hill, starring David Patrick Kelly as Luther, Michael Beck as Swan, James Remar as Ajax, and Deborah Van Valkenburgh as Mercy!
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