Sean Fennessey

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54,435 appearances 68 recordings 7 series first heard Jan 2025 last heard yesterday

Sean Fennessey’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 58 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 13.

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The Big Picture · The Best Movies About Filmmakers, and ‘Boorman and the Devil’ · 23 Sep 2026 podcast

Right around the same time as Sorcerer, another famous, you know, bomb at the box office that Friedkin makes that year. voice-verified

There's this great segment in the documentary where... voice-verified

shoot uh jeff canoe the film director who was working as a trailer editor at the time said he cut both the trailer for the heretic and sorcerer at the same time and they would run next to each other and both neither movie worked um voice-verified

But I don't know that this could ever happen again, this specifically. voice-verified

I think that there can be bad sequels. voice-verified

I think that there can be sequels that go way far afield of the original intention. voice-verified

In fact, The Exorcist is, as a franchise, is the home of one of the more interesting sequel stories ever, where you've got an Exorcist prequel that was directed by two different men in Paul Schrader and Rennie Harlan some 25 years later. voice-verified

But this specifically... voice-verified

where you've got what otherwise seems like a very classy movie that has a ton of money behind it, and no one came to the set and said, what the fuck are you doing? voice-verified

Well, it was probably, voice-verified

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Yeah, Max von Sydow's back. voice-verified

Max von Sydow's back. voice-verified

James Earl Jones, Oscar nominee. voice-verified

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Well, this is... I bring this up with Amanda all the time on the show where I'm like, it's very easy to mock studio executives and say that these people don't know shit about art and they're ruining everything all the time. voice-verified

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You do need a person with a little bit of critical distance. voice-verified

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