Alien | Watchalong!

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4.7 • 901 Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2017

⏱️ 123 minutes

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Sync up your Blurays and join the hosts of Anatomy of a Movie in watching Alien! Alien is a 1979 British-American science-fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott, and starring Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm and Yaphet Kotto. The film's title refers to a highly aggressive extraterrestrial creature that stalks and kills the crew of a spaceship. Dan O'Bannon wrote the screenplay from a story he wrote with Ronald Shusett, drawing influence from previous works of science fiction and horror. The film was produced by Gordon Carroll, David Giler and Walter Hill through their Brandywine Productions and distributed by 20th Century Fox. Giler and Hill made revisions and additions to the script. Shusett was executive producer. The eponymous Alien and its accompanying elements were designed by Swiss artist H. R. Giger, while concept artists Ron Cobb and Chris Foss designed the human aspects of the film. Alien launched t --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/marvelmovienews/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.1	Hey movie fans it's Dimitri Panos here from Anatomy of Movie Popcorn Talk Network
0:37.0	where today we're doing something really special, a watch-along of the 1979 classic alien.
0:45.0	Welcome to Popcorn Talk featuring movie discussion, news and interviews.
0:50.0	Popcorn Talk, We Talk Movies.
0:54.0	Hey folks, so how many out there are excited for Alien Covenant?
0:59.0	I am, and we just figured it would be such a great idea to go back to the past to see where it all started
1:06.7	and that is why we are going to do a watch along of the 1979 horror science fiction classic alien
1:15.0	bursting onto the scene in just a little bit
1:18.0	will be my awesome wonderful co-host Marissa
1:21.0	and just to give you just a quick thumbnail sketch a little bit of history
1:25.6	about alien itself before we start 1979 20th century Fox was having a modicum of success with science fiction movies.
1:34.0	They were being run by a gentleman by the name of Alan Ladd, who he himself has had some great
1:39.7	success with science fiction movies. Like you may have heard of a movie called Star Wars.
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