Episode 210: Rollerball (1975)

Special Guest: Ashlie Atkinson
Guest Co-Host: John Kenneth Muir

In the future there will be no war. There will only be Rollerball.

Writer John Kenneth Muir joins us in our discussion of Norman Jewison's 1975 dystopian film, Rollerball wherein Jonathan E (James Caan) is a star in a game where individual achievement is a threat to the Corporate powers that be. We discuss the 2002 remake, and the two adult versions of the film(s).

We also talk to actress Ashlie Atkinson of the Gotham Girls about life as a present day roller girl.

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Links:
Buy Rollerball on Blu-Ray
Buy Rollerball (2002) on DVD
Buy Rollerball by Andrew Nette
Buy Rollerbabies on DVD
Buy Roller Balled on DVD
Buy The Mutations of Rollerball by William Harrison
Buy Roller Ball Murder by William Harrison
Buy Rollerball (the novelization) by William Harrison
Buy Rollerball: The Home Game
Buy Science Fiction and Fantasy Films of the 1970s by John Kenneth Muir
Visit the official John Kenneth Muir website
Visit the official Ashlie Atkinson Facebook page
Follow Ashlie Atkinson on Twitter
Visit the Gotham Girls website
Read The Evolution of Rollerball by JP Trostle

Music:
"Rollin' with a Rollergirl" - Uncle Leon & The Alibis
"Rollerball" - The Teens
"Jonathan E (Feeling Mean)" - Shiryu
"Toccata for Jonathan Redux" - Shiryu

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