This latest Editors on Editing podcast features editor Kirk Baxter in conversation with host Glenn Garland, focusing on the editing process of A House of Dynamite, a tense, intricately crafted thriller directed by Kathryn Bigelow. The film, now streaming on Netflix, dramatizes a fictional yet realistic 19-minute countdown to a potential nuclear missile strike, unfolding through three overlapping perspectives within the government.

Baxter, known for his acclaimed work on The Social Network and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, discusses his unique experience editing A House of Dynamite in story order. This chronological assembly allowed him and Bigelow to maintain clarity amid complex, multi-location scenes, enhancing the film’s real-time urgency.

“We were just never confused,” he said. “I sort of crafted this or built this as the viewer.”

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