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Two Predator Movies Coming in 2025?! Plus The Future of the Alien Franchise and More

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🗓️ 24 October 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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On the October 24, 2024 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film staff writer Ryan Scott to talk about the latest film news.

In Our Feature Presentation: The Future of Alien, Predator, and More at 20th Century Studios

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0:00.0

Hello everyone welcome to slash film daily today's Thursday October 24

0:03.8

on today's episode of the show we're going to be talking about the latest film

0:07.3

news my name is Ben Pearson I'm an editor at slash film dot com and I'm joined

0:11.0

on today's episode by slash film staff writer and box office analyst Ryan Scott.

0:14.6

Hey everyone how's it going? Ryan I've been trying to get back in the habit of doing

0:19.2

ranking episodes on Thursdays because those are always fun conversations to have. The most recent one that we did was a ranking of our favorite Florence Pugh performances, but those episodes often take a little bit of time to put together and today has just been one of those days where I've barely had time to take a breath.

0:35.0

I was actually worried that we might have to skip recording today, but thankfully we were able to carve out some time here and instead of doing a big

0:41.3

ranking, I thought you and I could basically just run through this great piece that was published this morning over at the Hollywood reporter that features an interview with Steve Asbell who runs 20th century studios.

0:52.0

He addressed the future of the alien franchise. who runs 20th century studios.

0:52.6

He addressed the future of the alien franchise,

0:55.1

the predator franchise, a bunch more stuff.

0:57.6

So as you hear this, we have our own articles

1:01.0

up on slash film with some commentary and analysis of some of these

1:04.6

statements but you and I are going to run through all the biggest points and just

1:08.4

offer our own commentary so does that sound good to you? That sounds awesome.

1:13.0

I was at lunch when you first sent me this

1:15.8

and I hadn't read it yet and then I message you after I read it.

1:19.7

I was like, Jesus Christ, every once in a while you get one of these interviews where it just seems like everything the person says

1:26.0

is like a news item and it's rare but it happens and this is one of those ones where you're like,

1:30.6

holy, like everything he said is great great so there is actually a lot to get

1:34.4

to here in this one thing yes before we get to the major update there was one little

1:38.7

thing that I went to highlight that I thought might excite you personally, which is when asked what the balance is between making original movies and making franchise movies,

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