There they discover a strange pyramid with remnants of a group of Engineers. Last week we celebrated Alien Day 2023 with a look back at Ridley Scott‘s 2012 Alien prequel, Prometheus. In the film, scientists Elizabeth Shaw ( Noomi Rapace) and Charlie Holloway ( Logan Marshall-Green) partner with the Weyland Corporation, run by its elderly benefactor ( Guy Pearce) and supervised by his android “son” David ( Michael Fassbender), to investigate the origins of mankind on a distant alien world. Trace and I are recovering from our live show at Salem Horror Festival this past weekend, but in April we kept busy with episodes on Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Killing of a Sacred Deer, Tony Scott’s The Hunger, and, most recently, queer Black writer/director Bill Gunn’s Ganja & Hess (which just celebrated its 50th anniversary!) You can also unlock hundreds of hours of exclusive content in The Barrens (Patreon) - from deep dives into uncollected King works to Dark Tower detours to feature-length King commentaries. For further adventures, join the Club over long days and pleasant nights via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, RadioPublic, Acast, Google Podcasts, and RSS. Stream the episode below and return next week when the Losers celebrate the best of Stephen King in 2021. The Australian filmmaker walks ’em through the serendipitous pre-production that proves Ka is indeed a wheel, shares a number of heartwarming anecdotes involving both Hopkins and Yelchin, and expands upon the hurdles he and the late and great screenwriter William Goldman encountered in bringing this story to life.

Shortly after, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Scott Hicks joins the Losers to reflect on the film two decades later. Together, they discuss the inspired casting, the tough translation from page to screen, and whether or not the excision of the Dark Tower connections works for or against the film. To commemorate the film, Losers Randall Colburn, Michael Roffman, Rachel Reeves, and Dan Pfleegor crack open some cold root beer and meditate on the curious adaptation. Starring Sir Anthony Hopkins amidst his Hannibal renaissance, the late Anton Yelchin in his feature debut, and the ever-magnificent Hope Davis, this 2001 drama remains one of the more underrated entries in the Stephen King film canon.

The Losers are still in Harwich, Connecticut, only now they’re celebrating the 20th anniversary of Scott Hicks’ Hearts in Atlantis. Then we grow up, and our hearts break in two.” –Sir Anthony Hopkins as Ted Brautigan You think you’re living in someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been.

“You know, when you’re young, you have moments of such happiness.

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