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Harrison Ford held a Reddit Ask Me Anything Sunday that not only revealed one of the best scenes from the "Indiana Jones" films was thanks to food poisoning, but also how he was cast in the original "Star Wars."

During the AMA, Ford was asked how he felt about "Star Wars" when he first started and how he was approached for his role in the film.

Ford went on to share the famous story of how he got his big break as galactic smuggler Han Solo in 1977's "Star Wars" while still working as a full-time carpenter.

"My principle job at the time was carpentry," Ford said in the AMA. "I had a house at the time I wanted to remodel, a bit of the wreck of a house. I'd invest money in tools but wouldn't have money for materials, so I realized this was another way of putting food on the table."

Ford added he got the role from standing in for screen tests for director George Lucas, who worked with Ford in "American Graffiti."

"I had helped George Lucas audition other actors for the principle parts, and with no expectation or indication that I might be considered for the part of Han," Ford said. "I was quite surprised when I was offered the part."

Lucas would later say in an interview that Ford's casting was the most serendipitous, but ultimately that he was better than any of the actors who were actually auditioning for the role.

Watch below one of the fateful auditions that got Ford the part:

SEE ALSO: Harrison Ford explains the story behind the best scene in 'Indiana Jones'

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Gillian Flynn's bestseller 'Gone Girl' is now a movie starring Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike.

Affleck plays Nick Dunne, a man who finds out his wife Amy (Pike) has suddenly gone missing on the couple's 5th wedding anniversary.

"Under pressure from the police and a growing media frenzy, Nick's portrait of a blissful union begins to crumble," reads the movie description.

Everyone thinks Nick Dunne killed his wife. Only Amy knows the truth.

The movie comes out on October 3rd, 2014.

Watch the official trailer here (and below.)

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Despite widespread rumors, David Fincher (“The Social Network”) won’t be directing Sony's Steve Jobs biopic, according to The Hollywood Reporter.  

THR reports Fincher had "aggressive demands for compensation and control," including $10 million upfront and control over how the movie would be marketed.  

Variety reports Fincher has a number of other projects he's currently working on and never officially signed on to direct. 

The biopic, with a screenplay written by Aaron Sorkin, is based off of Walter Isaacson’s best-selling biography, “Steve Jobs.” 

The film would have re-teamed Sorkin and Fincher since their Oscar-winning “The Social Network” in 2010.

With Fincher unattached to the project, the chances of Christian Bale as Jobs are probably unlikely since he was reportedly the director’s top choice for the role. 

The Jobs’ movie is currently slated for a 2016 release.

SEE ALSO: The opening fight sequence from "X-Men: Days of Future Past" looks awesome

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Nearly 30 years after the original film, we're getting a ‘Top Gun’ sequel with Tom Cruise — and drones.

We’ve heard bits and pieces about the sequel, but producer Jerry Bruckheimer laid out a better picture of what the movie will entail with Bloomberg’s Jon Erlichman.

“Technology has changed obviously since we made the first one,” says Bruckheimer. “So, I think we’re going to take advantage of what the world is like today, you know with the drones really kind of taking over in a lot of our wars."

"Is the pilot obsolete? Are those guys … those jet jockeys, are they gone from now? No, I don’t think so," Bruckheimer added.

Bruckheimer, who says the sequel has been in the works for 30 years, shared it was the late Tony Scott who came up with the film’s premise. 

The producer is also working on another installment to “Beverly Hills Cop” with returning actor Eddie Murphy.

Bruckheimer discusses the two sequels near the beginning of the interview starting at the 1:15 mark. 

SEE ALSO: David Fincher won't direct Steve Jobs' movie

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According to Nielsen BookScan, James Patterson has sold more books in the past decade than any other writer — more than Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling or horror master Stephen King.

To date, Patterson has sold 300 million copies of 130 novels worldwide. 

Previously a creative director for the massive ad agency J. Walter Thompson, Patterson published his first novel in 1976. Though he now writes across genres, he started in thrillers. Patterson puts the turn into page-turner — quickly paced plots with short chapters, crisp sentences, and a gruesome murder here and there. 

To allow for his outsize output, Patterson has shifted from the standard method of publishing, where one author writes a given book. Instead, he treats his Alex Cross, Women's Murder Club, and other series the way a television writer might approach a new season of "The West Wing." He's worked with more than 20 co-authors, and, since 2002, he's written only a reported 20% of his books by himself. 

Thus his outrageously high productivity. He will publish 15 books this year alone. As the U.K.'s Telegraph reported, Patterson has had 4.7 published pages per working day since 1976. 

We spoke with Patterson about how he writes and approaches his business. (This interview has been condensed and edited.)

Business Insider: Your book sales show you've developed an ear for knowing what people want to read. How did you develop that?

James Patterson: I think to some extent it's story, story, story. I'm a storyteller. That's what a lot of people want out of books. I'm reading "Flash Boys." Michael Lewis is a terrific storyteller. He has that ability to take something that could have been the driest, most boring goddamned thing, but he makes it dramatic. I think that's a piece of it. People who have that ability to turn that situation into a compelling story. That's one of the things.

With me, it's a combination of pace and then trying to make sure that the characters I'm writing about hold people's interest and they want to be involved with them. 

Could you walk me through a typical workday for you?

I'm usually up 5:30-ish. I will write for an hour or so. Then quickly blast through the highlights of a few newspapers — The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today. Frequently, then, I will go and walk the golf course for maybe an hour. I'm usually back here by 9:30 or so. Write until noon. Go to lunch with my wife. Come back and write some more. Occasionally, I'll write later at night if I'm worried about something, or if there's some inspiration and I need to deal with it a bit.

It's pretty much seven days a week. Somebody said, you're lucky if you find something you like to do and then it's a miracle somebody will pay you to do it. That's my situation. It's not work for me. These are all stories that I'm really dying to tell. 

What do you do when you sit down to write?

What will be sitting out will be wherever I am on a certain manuscript that I'm writing myself or a manuscript that I'm rewriting, one of the co-author-written things or an outline or two. There are usually at least three or four things ... then I just decide which one am I going work on that day, or sometimes I'll work on two or three in the same day.

What's a good day's writing look like for you?

For me it's all rewriting. It's layering. The writing keeps hopefully getting better. The dialogue gets sharper. My style is very colloquial. It's the way we tell stories. It would be a disaster if everybody wrote the way I do. I don't put in a ton of detail.

I used to live across the street from [former U.S. Army General] Alexander Haig. If I were telling you a story and went out to get the mail and there was Haig lying in the driveway, if I then for the next five minutes talked about the palm trees waving and the architecture of the house, you'd say, "What the f---? Stop! What's the story with Haig?" I kind of write that way. I'm going to write about Haig in the driveway, and you're only going to hear about the architecture if it really is relevant to the story I'm telling. 

When you say that the writing and rewriting is a matter of "getting better," what does getting better mean to you?

Emotionally, I just go, "This isn't there yet. I'm not feeling it." I'll put "Be there" on a top of a chapter sometimes. I need to be in the scene. I need to have put enough detail in there where I'm seeing it, I'm certainly feeling it. The dialogue needs to be somewhat true. It needs to be moving the thing forward instead of marching in place.

I'd like to digress a bit and talk about the way you work with co-authors. Did your former life in advertising help shape this collaborative way of working?

There are a lot of things that are collaborative. You start wandering through Florence and Venice and start looking at these churches. They are all collaborations. You look at these ceilings and you see, like, nine painters.

TV scripts — 60 pages, two writers. Movie scripts — four writers. It's a lot more prevalent than people think it is. 

What's the workflow of the collaboration look like?

The outline will be 60 to 80 pages. I then ask what they contribute, for a couple of reasons. One is, I want their ideas. Secondly, I want them invested, which is most important. With all the people I work with, they want to do this as well as they can do it. This is not hack work. There's pride. They are into it emotionally.

I insist on seeing stuff every two or three weeks. With publishers, they say, "We'll see in a year or so," and they go, "Oh, this isn't really what I was thinking of." With me, it's every couple of weeks, and I'll get pages and I'll talk — "This is going well, remember this, remember this. Hold it, we're off the tracks. We got to stop it and figure out where this went." Then we'll talk about that, and then continue. 

When do you feel like you're doing your best work?

I'll write a good chapter. I'll write a good outline. My outlines, you read one of my 80-page outlines and you felt like you read a book. The story is all there. That's very satisfying to me. I can make a breakthrough on an outline or on a direction or with something that was missing from the story. That is very satisfying. I can come up with a new idea. That's probably the most joyful thing, to go,"You know, it would be very cool ... "  

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For some, the three-day Coachella Music Festival in Indio, Calif., is as much about the parties as it is the music.

Lacoste, Samsung, Armani Exchange, H&M, and Patrón are just a few of the brands that sponsored extravagant celebrations day and night for festivalgoers.

Paris Hilton, Katy Perry, Jared Leto, and other celebs took advantage of this weekend's bashes.

The annual Lacoste party brings out tons of celebrities to a private estate near Palm Springs.

Actor Elijah Wood played DJ.

While Katy Perry hung out with Steven Tyler.

When “Fast & Furious 7” comes to theaters next year, Paul Walker’s character, Brian O’Connor, will return to the big screen with the help of his two younger brothers.  

Universal Studios announced today that Walker’s brothers Caleb and Cody will stand in for the actor to help complete small gaps in production.  

Walker passed away last November in a car crash, leaving major scenes in the sequel left unfilmed.  

As a result, the film’s release was pushed back from 2014 to April 10, 2015 as production took time to grieve and figure out how to rework the sequel. 

The film, which resumed shooting earlier this month, will reportedly use a mix of CGI and body doubles to stand-in for Walker. 

Earlier it was rumored Walker’s brother Cody was approached to fill in for scenes.  

Here's Walker with his brother Caleb at Caleb's wedding six weeks before his death.

You can read the full release below which was posted on the official “Fast & Furious” Facebook page: 

A Note to the Fans of FAST & FURIOUS 

The FAST & FURIOUS saga is about family. The characters are connected by the bond of family, and it is how all of us who have worked together for more than thirteen years feel about each other. It certainly defines how we feel about our fans.  

Our family experienced an unthinkable shock in November. We had to take time to grieve Paul, the brother we love and lost, and to figure out if we should move on with our film.

We came together and all felt the only choice was to continue. We believe our fans want that, and we believe Paul would want that too. Paul had already shot his dramatic scenes and most of his action for FAST & FURIOUS 7, and it’s among the strongest work of his career.  

We have resumed shooting and now welcome Paul’s brothers, Caleb and Cody, into our FAST family. Caleb and Cody are helping us complete some remaining action for their brother and fill in small gaps left in production. Having them on set has made us all feel that Paul is with us too.  

We are just under a year away from the release of FAST & FURIOUS 7, and this film is the most important we’ve ever done together. It will allow the character of Brian O’Conner to live on and let us celebrate Paul in his most defining role. 

We wanted to take a moment to speak to our fans directly and thank you for the love and support you always show us as we resume our work.

SEE ALSO: "Fast and Furious 7" to film in Abu Dhabi in April

AND: 13 actors brought back to life using special effects

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While some heavily lauded indie filmmakers like David O. Russell and the Coen brothers have been able to blend critical and commercial success as their careers have gone on, there are plenty of other household name directors who have yet to find box office success stateside.

Surprisingly, these 10 famous directors have never had a movie go over $100 million in the U.S.

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Woody Allen

Despite having been in the movie making business for more than 40 years, and winning multiple Oscars in the process, Woody Allen's films have never been designed to do big in the sales department.

Films Directed: 46
Films Over 85 percent on Rotten Tomatoes: 21
Closest to a Box Office Blockbuster: Antz ($90.7 million)

Paul Thomas Anderson

Ask any working film critic who's the best director today, and you'll probably get a lot of P.T. Anderson responses. Unfortunately, critics get to see his films without paying for a ticket.

Films Directed: 7
Films Over 85 percent on Rotten Tomatoes: 3
Closest to a Box Office Blockbuster: There Will Be Blood ($40.2 million)

Kathryn Bigelow

Kathryn Bigelow may have won the directing Oscar over James Cameron in 2009, but The Hurt Locker wasn't even in the same box office ballpark as Avatar.

Films Directed: 10 
Films Over 85 percent on Rotten Tomatoes: 4
Closest to a Box Office Blockbuster Zero Dark Thirty ($95.7 million)

Even the Amazing Spider-Man can be a victim of bullying.

In an interview with The Guardian, Andrew Garfield — the actor who plays Spider-Man in the upcoming "Amazing Spider-Man 2" — explains how he was bullied as a child.

"I enjoyed my childhood, though looking back on school, that was both great and awful," he told the British newspaper.

Garfield, who was born in Los Angeles but grew up in England, mentioned that being "stupidly sensitive" made him a target for bullies.

"I had the general bullying experience where there was a kid who wasn't very happy and he threw his weight around," Garfield said. "He targeted me because I was skinny and thin-skinned and he knew it."

But the bad experience at school led Garfield to delve into comics books, specifically the famous web-slinger he would one day go on to play.

"If it weren't for that bully, I wouldn't have found Spider-Man," he said. "That's why I got so lost in the comics and the cartoon series. I would fantasize about being him."

The 30-year-old added, "It is really interesting, though ... what you perceive as your wounds can later on turn into the biggest gifts you have."

Garfield will host SNL on May 3, while "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" swings into theaters May 2.

SEE ALSO: 'Spider-Man' Spin-Off Movies Will Be Released Before 'Amazing Spider-Man 4'

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The Tribeca Film Festival starts this week in New York City.

More than 100 movies will be screened during the two-week event from April 16-27 along with 55 world premieres.

Tickets went on sale to the general public Monday.

If you're in NYC and are trying to figure out what to see, these are the films we're looking forward to the most.

1. "Palo Alto"

Synopsis: Emma Roberts plays April, a levelheaded, intelligent, and spirited young woman who finds herself attracted to introspective artist Teddy (Jack Kilmer), whose buddy Fred's (Nat Wolff) destructive nihilism brings Teddy down with him. When her soccer coach (James Franco) comes onto her, April's world begins to spiral out of her control.

Who's in it: James Franco, Emma Roberts, Val Kilmer, Chris Messina
Why to see it: The film is Gia Coppola's  — niece of Sofia Coppola — debut feature film and is based on Franco's short stories of the same name.

Check out movie times here.

2. "Third Person"

Synopsis: "Three stories set in cities known for romance—New York, Rome, and Paris—take raw and personal twists as the characters grapple with the difficulties of modern relationships. From the on-again, off-again relationship of a recently separated man and his mistress, to a mother accused of attempting to kill her own child, the tribulations of everyday life wax and wane for each of the individuals."

Who's in it: Liam Neeson, Mila Kunis, James Franco, Olivia Wilde, Adrien Brody,  Maria Bello, and Kim Basinger
Why to see it: Not only does the film have a ton of star power, "Third Person" is directed by Paul Haggis who won two Academy Awards for "Million Dollar Baby" and "Crash."

Check out movie times here.

3. "Every Secret Thing"

Synopsis: "One clear summer day in a Baltimore suburb, a baby goes missing from her front porch. Two young girls serve seven years for the crime and are released into a town that hasn’t fully forgiven or forgotten. Soon, another child is missing, and two detectives are called in to investigate the mystery in a community where everyone seems to have a secret."

Who's in it: Diane Lane, Elizabeth Banks, Dakota Fanning
Why to see it: The film comes from Amy Berg whose 2006 documentary "Deliver Us from Evil" was nominated for an Oscar.

Check out movie times here.

4. "5 to 7"

Synopsis: "Outside the Manhattan St. Regis Hotel, aspiring young writer Brian (Anton Yelchin) first meets Arielle (Bérénice Marlohe), the sophisticated wife of a French Diplomat. Though she’s older, married, and the mother of two, Brian can’t help but be drawn to her and the two begin a cinq-a-sept affair. It’s a clash with his traditional values and his parents (Frank Langella and Glenn Close) can barely handle the news, but Brian couldn’t be more smitten. As the two fall deeper in love, Brian begins to wish for more than just the hours of five to seven and soon the two must face the most significant decision of their lives."

Who's in it: Anton Yelchin, Berénice Marloh, Frank Langella, and Glenn Close
Why to see it: While the love story features Oscar-nominated actors Close and Langella, director Victor Levin is a co-executive producer on "Mad Men" and has been nominated for 4 Emmys. 

Check out movie times here.

5. "Boulevard"

Synopsis: "What starts as an aimless drive down an unfamiliar street turns into a life-altering decision for the curious Nolan Mack (Robin Williams). For many years, Nolan and his wife Joy (Kathy Baker) have embraced their marriage as a convenient distraction from facing reality. When he meets a troubled young man named Leo (Roberto Aguire) on his drive home, Nolan finds himself breaking from the confines of his old life."

Who's in it: Robin Williams, Kathy Baker, Bob Odenkirk
Why to see it: It's not too often you see Williams outside of a comedic role. Director Dito Montiel's last film, "A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints" won the Special Jury Prize at Sundance. 

Check out movie times here.

6. "The Bachelor Weekend"

Synopsis: "A very modern groom-to-be reluctantly agrees to a bachelor weekend with his urbane friends, wild camping in the great outdoors of the west of Ireland. To their horror they are joined by the bride’s unpredictable brother, an alpha male known as “The Machine” whose explosive personality and wild leadership takes them on a journey they’ll never forget."

Who's in it: Andrew Scott, Brian Gleeson, Amy Huberman
Why to see it: Think "Bridesmaids" for men. If you tune into "Sherlock," you'll recognize Scott who plays Jim Moriarty on the BBC series, and he's enough to sell us over on this comedy.

Check out movie times here.

7. "Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon"

Synopsis: "Mike Myers brings a comic touch to documenting the astounding career of consummate Hollywood insider Shep Gordon. Making playful use of archival footage, new interviews, and his own close relationship with the legendary talent manager, Myers reveals a man who has embraced his dualities: a hard-driving dealmaker who wants everyone to be happy and a rock ‘n’ roll hedonist who yearns for a family."

Why to see it: This film not only marks Mike Myer's directorial debut, but also gives an inside look at Gordon who has worked with artists in the music industry and helped create the idea of the "celebrity chef." 

8. "This Time Next Year"

Synopsis: The documentary follows the residents of Long Beach Island, New Jersey for the year after Hurricane Sandy. 

Check out movie times here.

9. 1971

Synopsis: “On March 8, 1971 eight ordinary citizens broke into an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, a town just outside Philadelphia, took hundreds of secret files, and shared them with the public. In doing so, they uncovered the FBI's vast and illegal regime of spying and intimidation of Americans exercising their First Amendment rights.”

Check out movie times here.

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An Easter egg, as it relates to movies, is when the movie's creators hide something in the film that's an intentional inside joke. 

Some Easter eggs are more well known, like how Hitchock makes cameo appearances in his films, but some Easter eggs are a little harder to find, even for the well-trained eye.

Pixar is no stranger to the Easter egg world, and it includes dozens of Easter eggs in its movies. There's even something called the Pixar Theory, where all the Pixar characters live in the same universe. 

Some of the Pixar Easter eggs are based on real-world locations. There are obvious ones — in the beginning of the movie "Cars," the announcer says that the entire town of Emeryville will be closed for the race; Pixar Studios is in Emeryville, Calif. — but some aren't so obvious. 

Fenton's Creamery in 'Up' is located in Oakland, Calif.

At the end of the movie, Russell and Carl can be seen eating an ice cream cone on the sidewalk in front of Fenton's Creamery. 

The real Fenton's is a local favorite, located on Piedmont Avenue in Oakland. The ice cream shop opened in 1894, and moved to its current location in the 1960s. It also claims to be where Rocky Road ice cream was born.

The Grand Lake Theater in 'Up' can be found in Oakland, Calif.

During the credit sequence, we see a photo of Carl and Russell going to see "Star Wars." 

This Easter egg is two-fold: many speculate that this was foreshadowing a new "Star Wars" film. In 2012 — three years after "Up" came out — Disney announced it would release a new "Star Wars" movie in 2015.

The second part of the Easter egg ... 

Brad Pitt will star as Gen. Stanley McChrystal in the film adaptation of Michael Hastings' book "The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America's War in Afghanistan," according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Pitt, who will also be a producer, will be joined by David Michod, who THR reports will write and direct the film.

"The Operators" gave a longer, behind-the-scenes look at the conduct of McChrystal and his staff in Afghanistan and while traveling in Europe. It was a followup to Hastings' award-winning Rolling Stone article "The Runaway General," which included damaging statements made by McChrystal's staffers that ended up getting the general fired.

At the time of the incident, McChrystal was the commander of all coalition forces in Afghanistan. He was replaced by Gen. David Petraeus.

Writing in his book "Duty," then-Defense Secretary Robert Gates wrote of the incident:

About five p.m., Stan called me to apologize for the article. Deeply fearful of its impact on the war, for once I couldn't contain my anger: "What the f--- were you thinking?" McChrystal offered no explanation, didn't say he or his staff had been misquoted or that the article was distorted in any way. The four-star general replied essentially as he had been taught as a cadet at West Point—"No excuse, sir."

Pitt's production company Plan B will produce the film along with New Regency and Brett Ratner's RatPac Entertainment, Rolling Stone reports. No production date has been set.

SEE ALSO: 27-Year-Old Soldier To Receive Medal Of Honor For Heroics During Hellish 16-Hour Afghan Battle

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The final official trailer for "X-Men: Days Of Future Past" premiered last night during "Conan" and it gives the first real look at the film's premise.

Based on the comic of the same name, the Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) is sent 50 years into the past to save the X-Men after sentinels start killing them off in the present.

The trailer shows the Wolverine as he tries to assemble all of the mutants together to prevent that from happening.

The film stars a huge cast including Jackman, Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Fassbender, Ellen Page, Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart, James McAvoy, and Peter Dinklage.

"X-Men: Days of Future Past" hits theaters May 23.

SEE ALSO: The film's opening fight sequence

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Unless you want to pay insanely marked-up prices on re-sale sites like StubHub and TicketsNow, buying tickets at face value on Ticketmaster is usually your only option.

For events in high demand, the odds are strongly against you getting great seats at a reasonable price. We have a few tips on how to get an edge on Ticketmaster and avoid paying scalpers' prices.

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Ending a beloved series the wrong way can bring a lot of backlash (just ask "How I Met Your Mother"), so when creator Vince Gilligan had to send "Breaking Bad" into the sunset he made sure there was more than one possible outcome.

In an interview with EW, Vince Gilligan revealed that there was "30 or 40 different permutations of the ending" for the series finale, "Felina." Mostly because they boxed themselves into a corner introducing Walt's M60 in the first episode.

"Out of cockiness or stupidity, 16 episodes from the end, we had Walter White show up in a beard, long hair, and a new set of glasses, buying an M60 machine gun in a Denny’s parking lot," Gilligan said. "We didn’t really know how we were going to get to that story point — we didn’t even know what that meant or what Walt was going to use that machine gun for."

Trying to figure out what Walt would do with the giant M60 led Gilligan and the writers to craft an ending where having the gun made sense.

One of those endings had Walt shooting up a jail to rescue Jesse, which was ultimately scratched because the creators felt that Walt wasn't bad enough by that point to shoot up a bunch of innocent people. Another had him shoot up a prison bus in the same fashion.

Gilligan even considered an ending of killing off all the major characters in a violent wild west type bloodbath.

"At one point, we talked about killing off every major character," he said. "One particularly dark week along the way we talked about killing everybody — having some sort of 'Wild Bunch' bloodbath of an ending."

However, the conclusion they came to for the finale was ultimately the most "organic." 

"The best way to go about this job... is to tell the story as organically as possible and to tell it brick by brick," Gilligan said. "You keep reminding yourself: Sometimes micro is more important than macro."

SEE ALSO: Bryan Cranston Uses 'Walter White' Character To Help High Schooler Get A Prom Date

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If you've ever wondered what Don Draper would drive if he were around today, wonder no more. It seems that Don Draper's living embodiment may have answered that question for you today.

Actor Jon Hamm and Mercedes Benz USA chief executive Steve Cannon unveiled the company's stylish new S63 AMG 4MATIC Coupe in a presentation at the 2014 New York International Auto Show.

The S63 AMG is the latest offering from the mad scientists at Mercedes' AMG performance division. Powered by the tuning division's signature hand-built 5.5 litre Biturbo V-8, the S63 will rumble to 60mph in just 3.9 seconds and all the way up to an electronically limited 186 mph top speed. 

The S63's monster V-8 puts out 577hp and an earth-moving 644 lb/ft of torque. Performance aside, the S63 will still coddle its occupants in traditional Mercedes comfort in the form of handcrafted Nappa leather seats and high-definition TFT info-tainment displays. The Benz's new Teutonic bruiser will also be packed with Mercedes' full lineup of safety and performance features including 4MATIC all-wheel drive, high-performance ceramic brakes, and AIRMATIC air suspension. 

Mercedes has not yet announced the S63 AMG 4MATIC Coupe's price, though it may be in the same range as the $155,000 CL63 AMG it replaces. 

Take a look at the Vine courtesy of Mercedes Benz.

Here is a closer look at the S63 AMG 4MATIC Coupe:

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The funk-rock antics of the Red Hot Chili Peppers can now be listed alongside waterboarding as methods of torture the CIA allegedly used against Guantanamo Bay detainees, Al Jazeera reports, citing an anonymous U.S. interrogator.

Songs from the Red Hot Chili Peppers would allegedly be blasted at excessively loud volumes on a constant loop in order to disorientate Abu Zubaida, a detainee at a black site prison being operated out of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

The alleged use of the Red Hot Chili Peppers for interrogation is just one of the latest revelations of the full extent of CIA's brutal enhanced interrogation techniques. The revelations come from a still-classified 6,600-page Senate report on the breadth of CIA torture.

Other torture techniques that the CIA allegedly used at its black site prisons included sleep deprivation for up to 11 days and the stuffing of detainees into pet carry crates.

Speaking to TMZ, Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith responded angrily to revelations that his music was used for torture, saying "our music's positive, man. It's supposed to make people feel good and that's ... It's very upsetting to me, I don't like that at all. It's bullsh---."

This isn't the first time musicians were angered that interrogators had equated their songs with torture. In February, Canadian industrial rock band Skinny Puppy sent the Pentagon a $660,000 invoice after discovering Guantanamo Bay interrogators had used its music.

SEE ALSO: US Interrogator Calls CIA Program 'Stanford Prison Experiment Writ Large'

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In recent years, the annual Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival has become as much a fashion show as it is about the music.

This year, trends on the fields included furry boots, floral headpieces, large hats, cut-off shorts, embellished sunglasses, and even one giant nose ring.

But when it's nearly 100 degrees in the desert on the outskirts of Palm Springs, clothing is limited — and sometimes, optional.

Coachella-goers bring out their craziest and most colorful outfits for the three-day festival in the hot desert.

Some friends like to pick themes — like America.

Or crop tops.

Mrs. Doubtfire will report for duty once again.

More than 20 years after the original film, Robin Williams is going reprise his role as the cross-dressing nanny in a "Mrs. Doubtfire" sequel, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Chris Columbus will return as director while David Berenbaum, who has worked on "Elf" and "The Haunted Mansion," will write the script. 

The 1993 film had Williams cross dress as an older nanny in order to spend time with his kids after a messy divorce.

The film was a hit, making $441 million worldwide on an estimated $25 million budget.

It's difficult to see how the film can carry on from the first so many years later.

Even Williams has said sequel attempts have been tried three times over for the film without success. 

The closest a sequel ever came to the big screen was when Bonnie Hunt stepped in to write a script back in 2001. That film was ultimately scrapped with Williams telling Newsweek in 2006 "the script they had just didn't work."

There's no set date for the upcoming sequel. 

For now, let's relive one of our favorite scenes:

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