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How Director Fede Alvarez “Reverse Edited” His New Hit Movie, ‘Alien: Romulus’ · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: The new Alien Romulus movie is being heralded as an
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  Speaker 2: instant classic in the space horror subgenre. Do in Part
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  Speaker 2: two director Fede Alvarez editing the film down to a
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  Speaker 2: perfectly taught two hours. Every filmmaker tackles the edit b
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  Speaker 2: in a different way, and while editing is often viewed
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  Speaker 2: as a process and involves trimming away the fat, dropping
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  Speaker 2: whatever you don't need, today's final step is the polar opposite,
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  Speaker 2: he tells Collider. It's the same process for all my movies.
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  Speaker 2: I do a first long version of the cut, then
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  Speaker 2: I remove everything I don't need to tell the story.
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  Speaker 2: You go medieval on the cut. This is why you
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  Speaker 2: do it. You realize you destroyed the movie it's too short,
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  Speaker 2: and then you do the right process, not of subtraction,
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  Speaker 2: but to add what you must have. You ask yourself,
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  Speaker 2: what did I miss here? That other scene? We can't
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  Speaker 2: lose that. It's a way better process for a final film.
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  Speaker 2: Director Fede Alvarez there on editing his new movie Alien
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  Speaker 2: Romulus in theaters Now
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  Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.