Wine and...Movies: ALIEN: ROMULUS (2024) with Bryant Dillon

With special guest BRYANT DILLON, President and co-founder of Fanbase Press, the GLAAD Media Award-winning and Eisner and Harvey Awards-nominated comic book publisher and geek culture website. Bryant hosts his own weekly podcast, The Fanbase Weekly, which can be found, much like ours, wherever fine podcasts are cast, and on fanbasepress.com

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THE WINES (and Not Wines)
DAVE'S WINE
2020 Marichal Reserve Collection Tannat, Canelones, Uruguay
Tannat is one of the great age-worthy, intense red wines of the world that has found a home in Uruguay where it is the national grape! Aged for 12 months in 70% new oak barrels, this is still a young wine with rough edges to spare, but as I say in the podcast - "drink 'em young!" The intensity and "angularity" (sharp edges) are why it pairs so well with Romulus! Plus filmmakers Fede Alvarez and Rodo Sayagues are both of Uruguayan descent.

DALLAS' WINE
Kleine Draken Pinotage Paarl 2022
Located on the Western Cape of South Africa. Fermented on skins 12 to 18 days after which the skins are pressed and inoculated with malolactic bacteria to initiate a 2nd fermentation. Then the wine is filtered and stabilized prior to bottling.

Bright ruby red in color (which suggests good acidity!) Medium-bodied with well-balanced tannins and the telltale Pinotage burnt rubber/leather note. An intense red for an intense movie!

BRYANT'S NOT-WINE
Lo-Carb Monster Energy Drink
According to the Monster website:
"Monster Energy Lo-Carb packs a powerful punch and has a smooth, easy-drinking flavor, but without glucose. Get the big bad Monster buzz you know and love, but with a sweet & salty citrus twist w/ only 30 calories per can!"

Part of Bryant's childhood, and a drink he associates with the franchise and also, frankly, Monster is missing out on insane branding opportunities by not having drinks for every Alien flick, every Predator flick, every kaiju flick, etc. Monster - get on that shit!!!

Chapters

• 0:30 Intro: Wine and Cats
• 3:19 Special Guest Bryant Dillon + Ripple Effects
• 6:23 We All Live in the Alien3marine
• 7:55 What We're Each Drinking with Alien Romulus
• 18:56 A Brief History of Alien Romulus
• 25:42 Our Respective Histories with the Franchise
• 30:18 Ridley Scott vs. James Cameron
• 35:33 Director Fede Alvarez
• 41:54 The Callbacks / Fan Service in Alien Romulus
• 43:32 First Half vs. Second Half
• 53:20 "Companies" Are Incompetent
• 1:02:36 What We Want to See Next in the Franchise
• 1:07:33 What Terrible Movie Would We Like to See Remade?
• 1:11:03 Wrap-Up!