Blank Check — Patreon: Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free)

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The extraction calls the show “Blank Check with Griffin & David (Patreon)” and the episode “Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free)”.

Hosts: Griffin Newman, David Sims, Ben Hosley. Guests: Matt Singer.

Subject films: Alien 3 (1992).

On the transcript: No speaker labels and heavy cross-talk; speaker attributions are low-confidence guesses. 'Coop Dreams and E by you' (2:16) and 'Schindler's list' (2:20) are too garbled to resolve and were left out.

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Films that came up

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Alien Resurrection · Aliens · Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol · the Snyder Cut (Justice League) · Blade Runner · Alien · Psycho · The Thing

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Micmacs · Tell No One · Delicatessen · Amelie · Toy Story · Crocodile Dundee · Star Wars · Memento · Panic Room · Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning · Alien vs. Predator · Predator · Prometheus · Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny · Mank · Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid · Mary Poppins · Twice Upon a Time · Return of the Jedi · Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom · The NeverEnding Story · Blade · A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master · A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child · Die Hard 2 · The Adventures of Ford Fairlane · The Fugitive · Pitch Black · Critters 2 · The Navigator · Se7en · Fight Club · An American Werewolf in London · Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace · Wayne's World · Excalibur · Alien: Covenant · Death Becomes Her · Batman Returns · Batman (Joel Schumacher films) · Heat · Public Enemies · Lethal Weapon 3 · Lethal Weapon 2 · Lethal Weapon 4 · Far and Away · Encino Man · Basic Instinct · Beethoven · Beauty and the Beast (Disney) · The Player · White Men Can't Jump · Wayne's World 2 · Shrek · Austin Powers · Hoop Dreams · Dark City · Babe: Pig in the City · Crumb · One False Move · L'Avventura · Switching Channels · And God Created Woman · The House on Carroll (Street) · Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse · Minions: The Rise of Gru · Barbie · Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem · Oppenheimer · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · Ocean's 8

subject (1)

Alien 3

anecdote (6)

Alexander · Treasure Planet · Bleak House · Twelve · I Married an Axe Murderer · Good Burger

dismissed (1)

Dying Young

recommended (1)

Shy People

Claims (43)

  1. programming (franchise pairing): Aliens → Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol. Both franchises are auteur-rich without one definitive director, which is why the Patreon series covered them.
    “Uh, but like Mission Impossible Aliens, perfect examples of franchises that uh, have a tours, but do not have one definitive director.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 0:09:08 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. theme (analogy): Alien 3 → Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning. Mother Mode's pop-up flood on the Blu-ray is likened to Gabriel in the entity tank.
    “to invoke the recently released uh, Mission Impossible dead reckoning when when Gabriel goes into like the entity tank.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 0:13:58 · David Sims (0.30 sure it was them)
  3. theme (cut comparison): Alien 3 → Snyder Cut (Justice League). The assembly cut is viewed like the Snyder Cut: interesting for laying out the intentions, but not a functioning movie.
    “This time I viewed it more like, uh, uh, Zach, the the Snyder Cut.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 0:14:45 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
  4. theme (cut comparison): Alien 3 → Blade Runner. Wants a third Alien 3 cut that meets in the middle, Blade Runner Final Cut style.
    “I almost want a Blade Runner style final cut thing where it's like, now we need a 3rd cut that meets in the middle.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 0:16:00 · David Sims (0.30 sure it was them)
  5. craft (design contribution): H.R. Giger → Alien 3. Giger's design work was mostly discarded; the Bambi Burster rod puppet was the main thing of his that ended up in the film.
    “that was apparently the main thing that he had an influence on that actually ended up in the film.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 0:21:53 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
  6. lineage (sequel): Alien 3 → Alien Resurrection. Resurrection follows Alien 3, but its Ripley is a different character from the one who died.
    “As much as she was quote unquote resurrected, obviously, that's a different character explicitly.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 0:24:13 · David Sims (0.30 sure it was them)
  7. what-if (what-if): Ridley Scott → Sigourney Weaver. Before Prometheus there was a moment when Ridley seemed to be considering a Sigourney return.
    “there was a moment where it felt like Ridley was considering doing a thing with Sigourney.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 0:24:40 · David Sims (0.30 sure it was them)
  8. what-if (what-if): Neill Blomkamp → Alien 3. Blomkamp's unmade Alien film would have ignored Alien 3.
    “his thing was going to be ignoring this, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 0:24:53 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
  9. contrast (contrast): Alien 3 → Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. Alien 3 lets a character story end, where Dial of Destiny tries to put a period on one and still doesn't.
    “why don't we let character stories end?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 0:26:37 · Matt Singer (0.30 sure it was them)
  10. lineage (sequel): Aliens → Alien 3. Alien 3 follows Aliens; watched back to back, Aliens ends on a new family that Alien 3 then kills.
    “you watch aliens and that has this ending of, you know, this new family that has been created.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 0:30:17 · Matt Singer (0.40 sure it was them)
  11. theme (long-time team comparison): David Fincher → Wes Anderson. Like Wes Anderson and Spielberg, Fincher's strength comes from a loyal team that finishes his sentences.
    “filmmakers like Wes Anderson, like Spielberg and whatever.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 0:41:36 · Matt Singer (0.30 sure it was them)
  12. lineage (early inspiration): David Fincher → Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. A televised making-of documentary about Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid blew young Fincher's mind about how movies are made.
    “the film that inspired young Fincher most”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 0:42:25 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
  13. lineage (influence): Mary Poppins → David Fincher. Fincher cites Mary Poppins as a humongous movie for him, when he curated his influences at MOMA.
    “he cites Mary Poppins as like a humongous movie for him.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 0:42:55 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  14. people (crew who became directors): Alien 3 → Blade. Effects-team members on Alien 3 (Norrington, Cunningham) went on to direct.
    “A lot of guys who later go on to become directors were in the effects team on this movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 0:47:32 · Matt Singer (0.30 sure it was them)
  15. lineage (sequel / genre shift): Alien → Aliens. Cameron's sequel to Ridley Scott's film shifted the genre, which raised expectations for any follow-up.
    “some other fucking guy is coming in and making a sequel to Ridley Scott's movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 0:50:21 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  16. industry (franchise expectation): Aliens → Alien 3. The Cameron film is such an obvious high point that nobody can zag from it, except into despair.
    “Where the hell are you gonna zag from that?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 0:50:52 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)
  17. unmapped (unproduced script): William Gibson → Alien 3. Gibson's famous unproduced script is mostly about Hicks and is very different from the film that got made.
    “It's a very cool script, I will say.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 0:51:53 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)
  18. unmapped (hiring logic): Renny Harlin → A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master. Harlin got the Alien 3 job off Elm Street 4.
    “He had just made Nightmare on Elm Street 4, and I guess that was enough.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 0:52:14 · David Sims (0.35 sure it was them)
  19. unmapped (consolation job): Renny Harlin → The Adventures of Ford Fairlane. When Alien 3 fell apart for Harlin he was handed Ford Fairlane.
    “Well, Ford Fairlane is what he gets handed when this falls apart.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 0:52:37 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)
  20. people (shared vibe / shared writer): Alien 3 → Pitch Black. Pitch Black reads as Alien-adjacent and as Alien 3-specific; the same writer (Twohy) is behind both.
    “And it's almost very alien 3 vibe specific.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 0:54:49 · Matt Singer (0.30 sure it was them)
  21. unmapped (hiring logic): David Twohy → Critters 2. Twohy was scooped from the New Line horror sequels.
    “He had just written critters too.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 0:55:00 · David Sims (0.30 sure it was them)
  22. lineage (origin of the prison planet): David Twohy → Alien 3. Twohy brought the prison-planet concept into the development.
    “Twowey is the one who brings in the prison planet concept, okay?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 0:56:20 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)
  23. industry (studio hiring pattern): Jean-Pierre Jeunet → Vincent Ward. Fox later hired Jeunet for Resurrection the same way it hired Ward: a unique artistic vision, just have a meeting.
    “which is clearly what they did with Jhene later too, where they're just sort of like, well, this guy has a unique artistic vision.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 0:57:44 · David Sims (0.30 sure it was them)
  24. unmapped (joke): Alien 3 → Treasure Planet. Ben once said he was disappointed the whole Treasure Planet wasn't a treasure (a chest); the wooden planet draws the same bit.
    “said I was disappointed that the entire planet wasn't a treasure?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 0:58:17 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  25. unmapped (concept merged in): Vincent Ward → Alien 3. The film is built from Ward's monk concept pushed together with the prison planet; his only surviving credit is story.
    “they mishing up the monks with the prison planet, they turn the monks into prisoners, but they're kind of religious.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 1:01:11 · David Sims (0.35 sure it was them)
  26. unmapped (Fincher's pitch): David Lean → Alien 3. Fincher says his original pitch was like a David Lean movie, much bigger and more political than what Fox allowed.
    “He says, okay, my pitch was like a David Lean movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 1:05:22 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  27. unmapped (critic's verdict): Fight Club → Alien 3. In his Fight Club review Ebert called Alien 3 one of the best looking bad movies.
    “So Fight Club is when he said Alien 3 is one of the best looking bad movies I've ever seen.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 1:12:27 · Matt Singer (0.40 sure it was them)
  28. verdict (review): Roger Ebert → Alien 3. Ebert gave it two thumbs down and said the chases were contrivances because the aliens could always outrun the humans.
    “Ebert says, I lost interest in Alien 3 when I realized that the aliens could at all times outrun and outleap the humans”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 1:12:33 · Matt Singer (0.40 sure it was them)
  29. lineage (homage (scene)): Psycho → Alien 3. Charles Dance's shower-curtain death is read as Fincher's own 'Hitchcock moment', after a cast member said Fincher called it that; the Psycho identification is the speaker's.
    “Fincher would talk to him about his influence and be like, well, this is my Hitchcock moment.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 1:18:07 · Matt Singer (0.35 sure it was them)
  30. theme (tonal comparison): Alien 3 → The Thing. The dog scene and its child autopsy carry The Thing vibes.
    “It has the thing vibes as well, obviously.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 1:22:28 · Matt Singer (0.30 sure it was them)
  31. unmapped (imagery): Alien 3 → Joan of Arc. The shaved head gives Ripley the whole Joan of Arc thing, foreshadowing the fire ending.
    “it gives the whole Joan of Arc thing to the movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 1:30:33 · David Sims (0.30 sure it was them)
  32. people (actor's presence): Lance Henriksen → Alien vs. Predator. Henriksen alone gives Alien vs. Predator a star.
    “He like gives alien versus predator a star by itself.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 1:34:26 · David Sims (0.30 sure it was them)
  33. theme (character echo): Paul McGann → Prometheus. Golic, who worships the alien, is an early version of the David character in the Ridley Scott movies (the speaker says they do better versions later).
    “Like with the David character in the Ridley Scott movies.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 1:40:06 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
  34. industry (franchise lore): Alien 3 → Prometheus. The company is best as a thing you ladle out; the Ridley Scott prequels show more of it.
    “I'm a huge defender of those movies, but like the more you hear about the company and then the worse.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 1:47:30 · Matt Singer (0.30 sure it was them)
  35. people (composer-director): Elliot Goldenthal → Joel Schumacher. Goldenthal scored the Schumacher Batman films.
    “I love his Joel Schumacher Batman scores.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 2:00:04 · David Sims (0.30 sure it was them)
  36. people (composer comparison): Elliot Goldenthal → Danny Elfman. In the 90s Goldenthal was becoming an unconventional blockbuster composer, Elfman style.
    “becoming sort of Alfman style, an unconventional blockbuster composer”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 2:00:17 · David Sims (0.30 sure it was them)
  37. people (composer brief): Elliot Goldenthal → David Fincher. Goldenthal says Fincher wanted the audience to feel completely fucked within five minutes with no hope.
    “Fincher told him he wanted him, you to feel, you the audience, to feel you were completely fucked within 5 minutes and that there is no hope completely.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 2:00:36 · David Sims (0.30 sure it was them)
  38. industry (box-office rival): Alien 3 → Lethal Weapon 3. On Alien 3's opening weekend Lethal Weapon 3 held the number one spot.
    “It's an action sequel holding on to the number one spot”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 2:01:28 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  39. unmapped (poster reuse): Lethal Weapon 3 → Lethal Weapon 2. The Lethal Weapon 3 poster just runs back the Lethal Weapon 2 poster, with Pesci added.
    “just run back the fucking lethal weapon 2 poster, but just Magic is back again.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 2:01:52 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)
  40. lineage (sequel comparison): Wayne's World → Wayne's World 2. One is great and profound; two is funny, stupid bullshit.
    “I think Wayne's World 2 is funny, stupid bullshit, but I think Wayne's World one is like great.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 2:10:11 · David Sims (0.30 sure it was them)
  41. unmapped (critic champion): Roger Ebert → Dark City. Ebert made Dark City his number one film of the year and recorded a commentary track for it.
    “Yeah, Ever made that his number one.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 2:16:57 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
  42. unmapped (critic champion): Gene Siskel → Babe: Pig in the City. Siskel's final best-of list had this film on top (transcript is garbled: 'Bay Pick in the city').
    “Siskel's final best of movie, yeah.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 2:17:05 · Griffin Newman (0.25 sure it was them)
  43. unmapped (critic split): Roger Ebert → Shy People. Only Ebert gave Shy People a thumbs up; Siskel gave it a thumbs down.
    “Only Ebert gave it thumbs up.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 2:21:27 · Matt Singer (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items (24)

  1. fun, about Panic Room: The three-disc Panic Room DVD is called the most comprehensive special-feature package for any movie ever, and the movie is not on Blu-ray.
    “peak DVD Fincher being like every single 2nd of this will be documented.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 0:12:22 · David Sims (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Alien 3: The alien-sucks-down-a-Pepsi commercial aired a full year before the movie; the suit was built for the film, and Fox was pushing Alien toward a kids' franchise (cartoon, toys, games).
    “That commercial came out a full year before this movie came out.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 0:19:43 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Alien 3: The rod puppet called the Bambi Burster, the juvenile runner alien, plays more in the assembly cut.
    “There's the rod puppet that they call the Bambi Burster that plays more in the assembly cut.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 0:21:48 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Alien 3: George Costanza's line about the masseuse, 'this woman hates me so much, I'm starting to like her', is how one host feels about the film.
    “this woman hates me so much.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 0:27:53 · Matt Singer (0.30 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Sigourney Weaver: She was eight months pregnant when the Newt dummy was made, so they measured only her head and shoulders; she made the film six months after her first child was born.
    “When they made the dummy, Sigourney was like 8 months pregnant.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 0:36:11 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about David Fincher: As a boy he asked for a BB gun, was refused, and asked for a movie camera instead, on the theory that it cost far more.
    “he asked his mother for a BB gun.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 0:43:30 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)
  7. fun, about David Fincher: The anti-smoking ad that launched his music-video career: a fetus smoking in utero.
    “a fetus is smoking a cigarette in utero as an anti-cancer ad.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 0:45:25 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
  8. fun, about David Fincher: Told by the Paramount president that nobody would give him $400,000 for a first picture, Fincher answered with a joke about a 40-minute movie.
    “Why would I do a 40 minute movie?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 0:49:13 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
  9. fun, about William Gibson: His unproduced script (now an audio drama, graphic novel, and novel) is summarized as space commies in a giant mall.
    “space commies, hijacked, alien eggs, big problem in wall mall world because it's set in a giant mall.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 0:51:38 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
  10. fun, about Alien 3: Vincent Ward pitched a planet made of wood and monks; the studio responded by telling him to write it for $40 million.
    “Someone could walk into a studio and be like, whole planet is wood.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 0:58:03 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
  11. fun, about David Fincher: His original Alien 3 pitch, in his own words, had multiple Lance Henriksens and 3,000 stormtroopers.
    “There were 3 Lance Henrikssons running around.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 1:05:30 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)
  12. fun, about Alien 3: They started shooting with an unfinished script after ten years of fighting over it.
    “they basically go into production with an unfinished script, 45 pages of a script”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 1:14:04 · Matt Singer (0.30 sure it was them)
  13. fun, about David Fincher: Fincher says he tried to quit on day one; his agent said he could never work in town again.
    “Fincher says he tried to quit on day one and his agent was like, you can't.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 1:14:14 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)
  14. fun, about Alien 3: A 93-day schedule cut to 70 days, and 50 effects shots cut to 25, meaning lots of 18-hour days.
    “Uh, supposed to be a 93 day shooting schedule.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 1:14:34 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)
  15. fun, about Jordan Cronenweth: The first cinematographer was diagnosed with Parkinson's weeks in, barely shot anything, but set the look; Alex Thomson took over, and the son later became Fincher's DP.
    “He barely shot anything, but he set the look that then was continued.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 1:15:37 · David Sims (0.30 sure it was them)
  16. fun, about Alien 3: In the assembly cut the alien gets into an ox, not the dog; the theatrical cut's dog set-up is the clearer one.
    “If you're talking about the assembly cut, it gets into an ox.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 1:21:38 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
  17. fun, about Brian Glover: The warden actor was a professional wrestler (the Red Devil, then Leon Arras the man from Paris) and the crew adored him on set.
    “He was a professional wrestler.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 1:24:52 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
  18. fun, about Ralph Brown: '85' is the character's IQ; Fincher wanted 72, Fox wanted 97.
    “He wanted 72, Fox wanted 97.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 1:26:47 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
  19. fun, about Alien 3: Fox's head at the time on how little the content mattered to the opening.
    “well, first, you could have someone piss against the wall for 2 hours and call it Alien 3 and it would do 30000000 dollars.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 1:35:42 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
  20. fun, about Charles S. Dutton: Dutton served time in prison, found acting there, and the performance carries that verisimilitude.
    “Charles Dutton is a man who served time in prison.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 1:43:37 · Matt Singer (0.30 sure it was them)
  21. fun, about David Fincher: In a behind-the-scenes clip on the Panic Room DVD, Fincher gives notes over the previs in real time, never waiting for it to finish.
    “he is nonstop just going like, that needs to be 2 inches lower.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 1:54:13 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)
  22. fun, about Joel Schumacher: After Fincher showed him the cut, Schumacher said aiming high means disappointment, and that caring puts you at the mercy of people who don't.
    “you put yourself in a position where they have more power than you because you care and they don't.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 1:56:11 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
  23. fun, about Alien 3: A pricey makeup bald cap cost about $20 grand because re-cutting Weaver's hair would have cost about $40 grand; when they needed it again, they found it in a pile.
    “So instead, they paid like 20 grand to make the world's most advanced makeup bald cap.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 1:58:25 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
  24. fun, about Lethal Weapon 3: The opening-weekend rival's poster is a recycled Lethal Weapon 2 poster with Pesci peeking in.
    “just run back the fucking lethal weapon 2 poster, but just Magic is back again.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 2:01:52 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)

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