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The Pressure Cooker Moment When ‘Alien Romulus’ Director Fede Alvarez Screened It for the Original ‘Alien’ Director, Ridley Scott · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: When it comes to sci fi horror movies, most fans
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  Speaker 2: and critics seem to agree that there is the nineteen
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  Speaker 2: seventy nine classic Alien and then everything below it. The
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  Speaker 2: Ridley Scott directed Gem It's considered the very best of
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  Speaker 2: the genre. So when Fede Alvarez was brought on to
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  Speaker 2: direct the latest installment in the franchise, Alien Romulus, which
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  Speaker 2: he also co wrote, he knew he'd eventually have to
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  Speaker 2: screen it for Ridley, who serves as a producer on
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  Speaker 2: the film, and he was terrified. He was even moren
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  Speaker 2: repeatedly that Ridley is a brutal critic. Bede told the
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  Speaker 2: crowd that the DGA Latinos Summitt twenty twenty three quote
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  Speaker 2: even Blade Runner twenty forty nine, which I thought was
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  Speaker 2: a masterpiece, he had issues with because it was based
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  Speaker 2: on his work. So I was like, there's no way
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  Speaker 2: I win this one, even if he said you destroyed
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  Speaker 2: my legacy. I wanted to be in front of him
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  Speaker 2: for but Ridley walked in and said, Fedde, what can
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  Speaker 2: I say? It's great. It was one of the best
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  Speaker 2: moments of my life to have a master like him,
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  Speaker 2: who I admire so much, talk to me for an
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  Speaker 2: hour about what he liked about my film. The words
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  Speaker 2: of Feeddi Alvarez, director of Alien Romulus, which arrives in
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  Speaker 2: August of next year.
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  Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood,