RIP Richard Donner, Could Brian Return in F10?, Black Widow 2, and Noah Hawley's Alien Series

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🗓️ 6 July 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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On the July 6, 2021 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by weekend editor Brad Oman and senior writer and chief film critic Chris Evangelista to talk about the latest film and TV news, including the death of Richard Donner, Noah Hawley’s Alien TV series, a potential Black Widow sequel, and how Justin Lin wants to bring Brian back into future Fast and Furious sequels. Opening Banter: In The News: Ben (OG Danielle): Richard Donner, Director of ‘Superman’, ‘Lethal Weapon’, ‘The Goonies’, and More, Dead at 91 Chris (OG Jeremy): Noah Hawley’s ‘Alien’ TV Series Will Be About “Inequality,” Won’t Feature Ripley Brad: ‘Black Widow’ Sequel is Still Possible, But Without Scarlett Johansson (Obviously) Ben (OG Danielle): ‘Fast and Furious’ Director Justin Lin Considering Bringing Paul Walker’s Brian Back in Future Sequels…But How? Also mentioned: All the other stuff you need to know: You can find more about all the stories we mentioned on today’s show at slashfilm.com, and linked inside the show notes. /Film Daily is published every weekday, bringing you the most exciting news from the world of movies and television as well as deeper dives into the great features from slashfilm.com. You can subscribe to /Film Daily on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify and all the popular podcast apps (RSS). Send your feedback, questions, comments and concerns to us at peter@slashfilm.com. Please leave your name and general geographic location in case we mention the e-mail on the air. Please rate and review the podcast on Apple Podcasts, tell your friends and spread the word! Thanks to Sam Hume for our logo. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to Slash Film Daily for Tuesday, July 6, 2021.
0:04.1	On today's episode of the show, we are going to be talking about the latest film and TV news.
0:08.1	My name is Ben Pearson, I'm a senior writer at slashfilm.com and I am joined on today's episode
0:12.3	by Slash Film Weekend Editor Brad Omen. at slash film.com and I am joined on today's episode by slash film weekend
0:13.5	editor Brad Omen. Hey that's me and senior writer and chief film critic Chris
0:18.3	Evangelista. Hello! New titles all around. Brad you're actually going to be a senior writer as well.
0:24.4	I think you're technically still the weekend editor until we find an official
0:27.6	replacement for you, is that right?
0:29.6	Yeah, so coming up as sometime maybe this maybe this month could be as soon as this month.
0:35.4	I'll be stepping away from the weekends just because I've been doing this for
0:40.2	six or seven years now working seven days a week and looking to get my weekends back and so now with some
0:46.7	changes happening at slash film I'll be sticking to the the weekdays as a senior writer and
0:52.4	letting somebody else take over the weekend
0:54.4	editor position since we're going to be having a lot more weekend content coming
0:57.6	up soon. Excellent, excellent. All right. Well yeah we got a lot of exciting stuff
1:01.0	going on and coming up soon at Sasomb.com so stay tuned for more about that later on.
1:06.7	But let's get into the news today guys. We learned over the weekend some sad news that
1:12.0	Richard Donner passed away.
1:13.4	Richard Connor of Superman, the Lethal Weapon Films, the Goonies, and much more.
1:18.6	He died at age 91.
1:20.8	And yeah, I mean this is just like one of those that that kind of hurts because he was
1:26.3	You know Richard Donner was one of those guys that I think his career started in like early 1960s and he just through the 60s and 70s was a prolific TV director and then right around the mid 70s
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