{"id":38906,"date":"2025-05-13T19:42:33","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T23:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38906"},"modified":"2025-05-13T19:42:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T23:42:33","slug":"bad-times-at-the-el-royale-2018-written-directed-by-drew-goddard-starring-jeff-bridges-cynthis-erivo-dakota-johnson-jon-hamm-cailee-spaeny-lewis-pullman-and-chris-hemsworth-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38906","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Bad Times at the El Royale&#8221; (2018) written\/directed by Drew Goddard, starring Jeff Bridges, Cynthis Erivo, Dakota Johnson, Jon Hamm, Cailee Spaeny, Lewis Pullman and Chris Hemsworth \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z051325zview_elroyale.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"741\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Bad Times at the El Royale <\/strong><\/em>(2018)<\/p>\n<p>Director:\u00a0 <strong>Drew Goddard<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Drew Goddard<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Jeff Bridges, Cynthia Erivo<\/strong><strong>, Dakota Johnson, Mayo Methot, Jon Hamm, Chris Hemsworth, Cailee Spaeny, Lewis Pullman, Nick Offerman, Mark O&#8217;Brien, <\/strong><strong> Charles Halford <\/strong>and <strong>Shea Whigham<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:<em> Seven strangers. Seven secrets. All roads lead here.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230; <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">1959.\u00a0 The El Royale used to be THE place to stay.\u00a0 Now it&#8217;s luster is gone.\u00a0 Felix O&#8217;Kelly checks in and hides a bag of money under the floorboards of a room.\u00a0 Not long after, O&#8217;Kelly&#8217;s partner shows up.<\/p>\n<p>And kills O&#8217;Kelly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ten years pass.\u00a0 The El Royale is a dump.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One night four strangers arrive separately and check into separate rooms.\u00a0\u00a0 The four are: a priest named Daniel Flynn, a singer named Darlene Sweet, a salesman named Laramie Seymour Sullivan and a free spirit who calls herself Emily Summerspring.\u00a0 Some of the four are not as they appear.\u00a0 Among them is an FBI agent on a mission for J. Edgar Hoover.\u00a0 One is looking for the missing bag of money.\u00a0 The night will also involve a kidnapping, a cult and murder(s).<\/p>\n<p>This night will be full of bad times at the El Royale.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Bad Times at the El Royale<\/em> is under-rated.\u00a0 Kudos to writer\/director Drew Goddard and his great cast.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><em><strong>Bad Times at the El Royale <\/strong><\/em>(2018) rates 4 of 5 stars<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z051325zview_elroyale2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"328\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bad Times at the El Royale (2018) Director:\u00a0 Drew Goddard Screenplay: Drew Goddard Stars: Jeff Bridges, Cynthia Erivo, Dakota Johnson,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,51,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38907,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38906\/revisions\/38907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}