{"id":934,"date":"2007-08-18T02:35:20","date_gmt":"2007-08-18T01:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/archives\/2007\/08\/18\/taika-waititi-on-eagle-vs-shark\/"},"modified":"2007-08-18T02:39:51","modified_gmt":"2007-08-18T01:39:51","slug":"taika-waititi-on-eagle-vs-shark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2007\/08\/18\/taika-waititi-on-eagle-vs-shark\/","title":{"rendered":"Taika Waititi on Eagle vs Shark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/happytaika\" title=\"Taika Waititi\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/taika-waititi-director-of-eagle-vs-shark.jpg\" title=\"Taika Waititi\" alt=\"Taika Waititi\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>The quirky comedy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0494222\/\"><strong>Eagle vs Shark<\/strong><\/a> is out this week and I recently caught up with its writer and director <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0169806\/\"><strong>Taika Waititi<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A director, writer, painter, comedian and actor of Maori descent he comes from the East Coast region of New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>He is most notable for his short film <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0390579\/\">Two Cars, One Night<\/a> for which he was nominated for an Academy Award.<\/p>\n<p>We spoke about Eagle vs Shark and how he got the film made.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the interview here:<\/p>\n[audio:http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/podcast\/get.php?fla=podcast-2007-08-17-17723.mp3]\n<p>You can also download this interview via iTunes by clicking the image below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewPodcast?id=251424468\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/podcast\/itunes.jpg\" align=\"middle\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/0385340230?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=filmdetail-21&amp;link_code=em1&amp;camp=2502&amp;creative=9254&amp;creativeASIN=0385340230&amp;adid=fff269fe-63f2-478e-ac77-28b8e8bccf26\" title=\"0385340230\" name=\"0385340230\" id=\"amzn_cl_link_0\" target=\"_blank\">Eagle vs Shark<\/a> <\/strong>is out at selected UK cinemas now<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/podcast\/get.php?web=podcast-2007-08-17-17723.mp3\">Download the interview as an MP3<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0169806\/\">Taika Waititi at the IMDb<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0494222\/\">Find out more about Eagle vs Shark at the IMDb<br \/>\n<\/a>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-admin\/\">Check out local cinema times for the film at UK cinemas<br \/>\n<\/a>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-admin\/\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/happytaika\">Taika&#8217;s MySpace page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The quirky comedy Eagle vs Shark is out this week and I recently caught up with its writer and director Taika Waititi. A director, writer, painter, comedian and actor of Maori descent he comes from the East Coast region of New Zealand. He is most notable for his short film Two Cars, One Night for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}