‘Alien: Romulus’ and the 'Alien' Movie Rankings

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🗓️ 16 August 2024

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Sean is joined by Chris Ryan to react to a handful of casting tidbits (1:00), before digging into the newest installment in the ‘Alien’ franchise, ‘Alien: Romulus’ (11:00). They discuss the new movie’s fealty to the original, the chances it takes, how it works as a pure horror movie, and more. Then, they rank all nine movies in the franchise (53:00), before Sean is joined by ‘Romulus’ director Fede Álvarez to talk about making a movie in the franchise that he is a superfan of, some of the particular choices made around fan service, how he approached practical effects during the production, and more (1:11:00). Host: Sean Fennessey Guests: Chris Ryan and Fede Álvarez Senior Producer: Bobby Wagner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	In the fall of 2014 a group of hackers pulled off the biggest Hollywood
0:04.2	heist of all time. They broke into computer servers belonging to Sony pictures and
0:08.7	released hundreds of thousands of top secret documents. The attack would cause an international incident
0:14.3	upend thousands of lives and change the movie industry forever. From Spotify and
0:20.4	the Ringer Podcast Network, I'm Brian Raftering and this is the Hollywood Hack.
0:25.0	Listen on the Big Picture Feed a conversation show about aliens. Later in the show I'll have a conversation with Fete Alvarez, the co-writer and
0:44.6	director of the new film Alien Romulus. Fete is a lifelong alien fanatic and the director
0:49.4	of 2013's Evil Dead remake. 2016's Don't Breathe to movies I like quite a bit.
0:53.8	Fede has a fascinating perspective on working inside the franchise machine in
0:57.4	Hollywood. Great mind for talking movies. I hope you'll stick around for
1:00.0	our conversation. But first, if we're talking about an alien movie there's only
1:03.6	one man to join us, the xenomorph to my face hugger Chris Ryan. What's up
1:07.2	buddy? Should I do the John Hurt thing? That's just a that's a zinc cough really more than anything.
1:14.1	What if that was an unexpected side effect of six milligrams citrus
1:20.7	sittres in?
1:21.7	When an alien burst through your chest live on a rewatchable's recording.
1:25.0	A Z-S-N-O man.
1:27.0	Dude, why are we giving this some way?
1:29.0	I don't know.
1:30.0	The cross-marketing, it could be happening for all your interests.
1:33.0	Alayo, we have to do like a sketch where like a zin alien jumps out of my chest.
1:37.8	I think that would really help Sean's pot.
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