An unknown virus has wiped out five billion people in 1996. Forced to live underground, only 1% of the population has survived by the year 2035. A convict, James Cole (Bruce Willis), volunteers to be sent back in time to 1996 to gather information about the origin of the epidemic (supposedly spread by a mysterious “Army of the Twelve Monkeys”) and locate the virus before it mutates so that scientists can study it. Unfortunately, Cole is mistakenly sent to 1990, six years prior, and is arrested and locked up in a mental institution, where he meets Dr. Kathryn Railly (Madeleine Stowe), a psychiatrist, and Jeffrey Goines (Brad Pitt), the insane son of a famous scientist and virus expert.
We return to the world of time travel, a concept Bruce Willis should be well-acquainted with, considering he’s starred in multiple time travel movies—The Kid (2000); Looper (2012). This time, he jaunts the years via the brilliant insanity of director, and former Monty Python member Terry Gilliam. Join us as we discuss this often overlooked gem that spawned a successful television series… two decades later. Listen, as Johnny has the Keys time-travels somewhat recklessly to save the world, searching for the origins of man’s folly amongst fools.
SHOW LINKS
- 12 Monkeys (1995)
- Original trailer
- Terry Gilliam
- La Jetée (1962)
- Rocky Horror Transylvanians
- Batman villians
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
- 12 Monkeys (2015)
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
- Somewhere in Time (1980)
- 28 Days Later (2002)
- Planet of the Apes (1968)
- Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)
- Looper (2012)
- Raising Arizona (1987)
- Bedlam (1946)
- The Andromeda Strain (1971)
- Monkey Gone to Heaven (Pixies)
- The Twilight Zone (1959)
- Slaughterhouse Five (1972)
- The Evil Dead (1981)
- 1984 (1984)
- Vertigo (1958)
- The Magic of Oz (L. Frank Baum)
- The Kid (2000)
- The Sixth Sense (1999)
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