Alex Cox
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Oct 27, 2026
John MacleanGUEST
Weirdly, I was talking to a producer about my love of movie drama, especially when they showed Assault on Precinct 13, which became this sort of momentous film for me.
John MacleanGUEST
And he was doing a talk about movie drama at the BFI with Alex Cox, and he sort of invited me on stage.
John MacleanGUEST
I was there that night, yeah.
John MacleanGUEST
Oh, yeah, yeah.
James WatkinsGUEST
And just getting, and then back in the day also, on BBC Two, they used to have late night slots.
James WatkinsGUEST
Alex Cox had a thing called Videodrome, and we all used to stay up and watch all these, and they used to play all these kind of cult, crazy movies, you know, Repo Man and stuff like that, where you'd watch, yeah, or you'd have a Cronenberg movie, or he'd do, I don't know, David Lynch movies or whatever, and so we'd watch those really, really young.
James WatkinsGUEST
And... yeah probably too young but it kind of that was the thrill right that's that's it's like yeah you know go going to see that and seeing things that just push the boundaries also it was also a thing I don't know maybe Tom's a little bit younger than me so it's the but it was also watching when you're a teenager it was watching 18 movies because they you know like they had sex in them it
Tom Rhys HarriesGUEST
stays with you doesn't it when you watch something really impacts your and what age you are impacts I find how ingrained that becomes into your consciousness.
Craig MacNeilGUEST
I think this was his first American film.
Craig MacNeilGUEST
And later on, I believe Alex Cox said that Robbie had had a bad experience on an American film.
Craig MacNeilGUEST
his first Hollywood movie, and I think of course that would be referring to Honeysuckle Rose, which did have a lot of production problems.
Craig MacNeilGUEST
Schatzberg only hinted at them, but of course one of them would be the affair going on.
Steven ScottHOST
And the reason why this— You don't want to pay full price for these good movies? I don't, no.
Steven ScottHOST
I like a value in my life, not to degrade— But so Walker is a movie directed by Alex Cox.
Steven ScottHOST
He's famous.
Steven ScottHOST
He's like kind of a punk rock director.
Steven ScottHOST
you.
Steven ScottHOST
So anyway, it's fun.
Steven ScottHOST
Again, I like Alex Cox.
Steven ScottHOST
I like Joe Strummer.
John CribbsGUEST
I...
John CribbsGUEST
Last night I'm watching a bunch of Alex Cox movies, because we're gonna be interviewing him on the podcast next week.
Andrew OverbyHOST
Mm-hmm.
John CribbsGUEST
And I just watched Walker last night, which Garret Graham is in.
Lee FordHOST
It's very, very 60s Keech looking.
Lee FordHOST
Marzatite's had been attempted to make it to the big screen in the 80s with Alex Cox up for the role.
Lee FordHOST
But Burton and screenwriter Gems began development in 1993.
Lee FordHOST
When Gems turned in the first draft to Warner Brothers, who commissioned rewrites from Gems, Burton and Scott Alexander and Larry Karanowski in an attempt to get the budget down to 60 million after the production budget came in at 80 million.
Andy MeakinHOST
They've been trying to make a Mars Attacks film since the early 80s.
Andy MeakinHOST
because there was the first revival of the trading cards came out in the early 80s.
Andy MeakinHOST
And Alex Cox pitched the idea for a film drawn from the cards, writing three drafts over a four-year period.
Andy MeakinHOST
But it was on hiatus until, like you say, Gems came on board.
Shem LawHOST
This was stuff that you just didn't get anywhere else, and opened my eyes to world cinema in a way that just I found absolutely fascinating.
Shem LawHOST
That was then sort of added to by Videodrome, which Alex Cox, the film director, used to present in late '80s into the '90s, where less foreign language films, but classic films that didn't necessarily get shown very often, whether it be Play Misty for Me or whatever.
Shem LawHOST
But, but watching films by, uh, François Truffaut, Werner Herzog, Bergman, they...
Shem LawHOST
It was, for me certainly, a really important thing.
Alex CoxHOST
Oh, hey, everybody, Merlin slept in.
Alex CoxHOST
[upbeat music] This is Dubai Friday, a weekly challenge podcast with Alex Cox-
Merlin MannHOST
[laughs]
Alex CoxHOST
... and Merlin Mann.
TosinHOST
And, and what's his-
Sean HarrisHOST
That was Alex Cox, wasn't it? Wasn't it Alex Cox that did the movie treatment?
TosinHOST
Alex, it was one of those guys.
TosinHOST
It was Alex Cox-
Sean HarrisHOST
Oh, yeah, they might have changed later on
TosinHOST
...
TosinHOST
Alex Cox or Mark Cousins or anything like.
TosinHOST
I'm not en- I'm not entirely sure.
Shane HoffmannGUEST
... doesn't have, like, a new release yet, but there, there's a film called Dead Souls which they're gonna put out.
Shane HoffmannGUEST
Um, it's done by Alex Cox, who did, uh, Repo Man.
Shane HoffmannGUEST
Um, so they're setting it for a 2027 release, I think early next year.
Shane HoffmannGUEST
And, um, in the UK they're doing screenings of it and having Q&A with him at these screenings.
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