Two Kings and a Scribe: A Filmmaking Conversation (2004)

Hosted by filmmaker James Christie Walker, this program features raw footage from various stages of the production. Walker sits down to chat with Emmerich, Gordon, and Nachmanoff, and we also get some remarks from attorney John Diemer, agent Michael Wimer, UCLA meteorologist James Murakami, executive producers Ute Emmerich and Kelly Van Horn, and composer Harald Kloser. In addition to the footage from the set, we learn about the origins of the film and its development, finding financing, stages and locations, various story and character choices, problems with the ending, fictional science, reshoots, cutting characters, the use of an outside dialogue writer, casting and Emmerich's collaboration with his sister, and general thoughts about the project.