Body Snatchers

Probably the number one.

I don't even have time to rattle them all off, but we did, obviously, The Abyss, Arrival, Aliens, Signs, E.T., The Thing, Body Snatchers, Independence Day, Contact, Stargate, 2001.

So that's just a few.

So a lot of the big ones have been picked already.

it.

Yeah, a lot, which I guess kind of makes sense because this is definitely based on, like, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, right? Yes.

War of the Worlds, yeah.

Well, how do you sell this otherwise? If you don't give that plot point away, were you just selling kids hanging out in school?

It just doesn't make a lot of sense.

But unlike Invasion

of the Body Snatchers and some of these earlier iterations of Body Snatchers, like the original Jack Finney, or whether it was from back in the day...

I like that.

It follows a convict who gets out of prison and struggles to find a job, eventually landing on a mysterious gig where he has to hunt down lifeforms that are hiding amongst people.

It kind of sounds like Body Snatchers meets The Shawshank Redemption, and I'm all about it.

The point being, these guys clearly have some pretty cool ideas, and I'm excited to see what they bring to the table for this franchise.

And we already know that Mike Nelson is attracted to franchises that kind of take what's great about a franchise, but reinvents it into something fresh feeling.

It, this, it was, it was great.

You know what it reminded me of? And I've, I've not seen the original, so maybe it's from the original as well, but it reminded me of Abel Ferrara's, uh, remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers where the, the, the way that the, the aliens like get people is that little roots grow out of your fucking body and they're like little-

Hmm

... sinewy fucking things.

Um, but yeah, there's, there are different versions.

I mean, like there's, there's, uh, Body Snatchers, Donald Sutherland, that's a great remake.

Even Ferrara's version of Body Snatchers, you haven't seen, is a good remake.

I don't think it's as good as the Sutherland

one.

But as its own thing, it's a damn good film.

I mean, they're all such different films, though.

The thing about what makes the Body Snatchers films great is that they take the central idea of aliens taking over our bodies and the paranoia of that, and they put it in different settings.