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An Alien in Hollywood is the story about the life and times of legendary filmmaker and “Godfather of Hollywood science fiction” Ronald Shusett. Unless you’re a Hollywood behind-the-scenes aficionado you've probably never heard of Ron. He is no less than the man who co-created, wrote, and produced three of the most influential, iconic and mind-blowing science fiction blockbusters in film history – Alien, Total Recall and Minority Report. His movies have grossed over one and a half billion dol ...
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00:15 – Robin recalls the story of how she met Ron Shusett 03:57 – Preproduction in Mexico City during the summer of 1989 05:15 – Ron recounts a funny exchange with Arnold Schwarzenegger 07:27 – Early days of set building 09:52 – Special effects in Total Recall 14:35 – Ron’s thoughts on the gratuitous violence in Total Recall 18:20 – Ron recalls ot…
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00:14 – Robin and Harry introduce the topic of today’s episode, Rom Shusett’s Total Recall 03:28 – The decision to buy the rights to Philip K. Dick’s short story 10:00 – First steps to making Total Recall 11:34 – Dan O’Bannon’s involvement 12:54 – Challenges with Disney 17:29 – Meeting with famed producer, Dino De Laurentiis 19:47 – The unique deal…
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00:14 – Robin and Harry share their favorite moments and stories from the season thus far 04:06 – Ron explains why he never used other films as inspiration for Alien 04:45 – The creation of the adult Alien creature 07:18 – How Ron’s editing advice led to one of the biggest scare scenes in Alien 11:11 – Ron describes the feeling of seeing his words …
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Highlights 00:16 – Robin tells the story of how she met Ron Shusett 02:58 – Introducing today’s episode, Alien: Nostromo 03:21 – Pre-production of Alien 04:56 – Casting Alien 05:46 – The controversy behind Sigourney Weaver landing the lead role of Ellen Ripley 09:27 – Figuring out the pacing of Alien 14:16 – An incredible crisis that developed amon…
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00:13 – Harry introduces his new podcast, An Alien in Hollywood 02:11 – Robin describes Ron Shusett 05:04 – How Harry met Robin 07:24 – Robin breaks down the format of the first few episodes of this podcast 09:01 – The genesis of the movie Alien 14:47 – The progress Dan O’Bannon made on the first act of Alien 15:46 – How Ron came up with the soluti…
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