{"id":4117,"date":"2008-12-24T19:39:14","date_gmt":"2008-12-24T18:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=4117"},"modified":"2008-12-26T23:56:24","modified_gmt":"2008-12-26T22:56:24","slug":"interview-danny-wallace-on-yes-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2008\/12\/24\/interview-danny-wallace-on-yes-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: Danny Wallace on Yes Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dannywallace.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4120\" title=\"Danny Wallace Yes Man poster\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/danny-wallace-yes-man-poster2.jpg\" alt=\"Danny Wallace Yes Man poster\" width=\"500\" height=\"368\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dannywallace.com\">Danny Wallace<\/a><\/strong> is the author of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Yes-Man-Amazing-Happens-Decide\/dp\/0091927900\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1228951701&amp;sr=8-2\">Yes Man<\/a><\/strong>, a 2005 book that explored what happened when an old man from the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aldgate\">Aldgate area<\/a>\u00a0in London\u00a0encouraged him to say yes to more things in life.<\/p>\n<p>It is now a film starring\u00a0<a title=\"Jim Carrey\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jim_Carrey\">Jim Carrey<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"Zooey Deschanel\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zooey_Deschanel\">Zooey Deschanel<\/a>\u00a0and I recently spoke to Danny about inspiration for the book and its journey to the big screen.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve known Danny since 1999, when we both worked on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www3.talksport.net\/shows\/presenter.asp?presenterId=99993\">Ian Collins<\/a> show on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Talk_Radio_UK#The_Talk_Radio_era\">Talk Radio<\/a> (now <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Talksport\">TalkSPORT<\/a>) and &#8211; coincidentally &#8211; this interview took place in a studio on the very same street where we first met in a pub called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fancyapint.com\/pubs\/pub3.html\">The Marquis of Granby<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the interview here:<\/p>\n[audio:http:\/\/filmdetail.receptionmedia.com\/Danny_Wallace_on_Yes_Man.mp3]\n<p>Download\u00a0it as a podcast via iTunes by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewPodcast?id=251424468\">clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Yes Man\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><em>is out at UK cinemas from Friday 26th December<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&gt;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/filmdetail.receptionmedia.com\/Danny_Wallace_on_Yes_Man.mp3\">Download this interview as an MP3 file<\/a><br \/>\n&gt;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/movies\">Get showtimes for the film via Google Movies<\/a>\u00a0<br \/>\n&gt;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1068680\/\">IMDb entry<\/a>\u00a0for the film<br \/>\n&gt;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wwws.warnerbros.co.uk\/yesman\/\">Official Site for Yes Man<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dannywallace.com\/\">Official site for Danny Wallace<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[Images\u00a0\u00a9 Getty Images \/ Warner Bros. Pictures 2008]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Danny Wallace is the author of Yes Man, a 2005 book that explored what happened when an old man from the Aldgate area\u00a0in London\u00a0encouraged him to say yes to more things in life. It is now a film starring\u00a0Jim Carrey\u00a0and\u00a0Zooey Deschanel\u00a0and I recently spoke to Danny about inspiration for the book and its journey to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,19,15],"tags":[703,138,370],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4117"}],"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=4117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}