Blockbuster is a 2019 original dramatic podcast created by Matt Schrader detailing the friendship and rise of early Steven Spielberg and George Lucas in the 1970s Hollywood.

The series is structured like a biopic film in the years before Spielberg and Lucas came to prominence as they struggled to complete Jaws (1975) and Star Wars (1977), as well as Close Encounters (1977).

[1] The series stars Ray Chase, Max Mittelman, Matthew Bohrer, Lex Lang and Julia McIlvaine, and is narrated by Schrader, an Emmy Award-winning investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker.

Also cast were television actor Matthew Bohrer (John Williams), Lex Lang (Harrison Ford), Julia McIlvaine (Marcia Lucas), and Kenny Holmes (Sylvester Stallone).

These flashback scenes include the world premiere of King Kong (1933) at The Chinese Theatre, 10-year-old George Lucas falling in love with Flash Gordon reruns on KRON-TV, and Steven Spielberg's first experience seeing a meteor shower with his father.