The Brother from Another Planet

And yeah, yeah.

To take the time to chase down John Carpenter or to, you know, or to chase down John Sayles about Brother from Another Planet.

You know, like those are things I think nobody... else would even think about doing, you know.

But luckily, you know, I have a really supportive publisher, 1984 Publishing, and they were great, and they were just like, yeah, whatever you want to do.

you want what I got I don't know anybody that like really loved this movie besides that one guy that gave it a 4 out of 5 that's the first

this may be worse than brother from another planet

Matter of fact, would you guys do like

a Daria movie? Would you guys be interested in watching that?

I know where from.

From the episode Brother from Another Planet when we see...

I am woman.

Hear me roar.

Bill Cobbs, who we mentioned, just always gets it done.

The Brother from Another Planet, Night at the Museum.

Daytime Emmy for Dino Dana.

How about that?

Yeah, yeah.

No, but we do talk about extensively a movie that I think... also that it really is overlooked and does deserve a lot of love, which is the brother from another planet.

Yeah.

Which is like, you know, I think I felt especially compelled to cover that movie because, you know, this guy is, basically helps conceive the most successful movie ever made.

yeah

oh yeah that was a big hbo movie

yeah joe told me like it was it was one of those things where it's like because of the title the brother from another planet like it it didn't uh get to a lot of black audiences because they thought it was just like a blaxploitation movie um but then once it got on cable it got a huge following yeah

I think I rented that from

Great indie filmmaker.

He directed The Return of the Secaucus 7, The Brother from Another Planet, Lonestar with, uh, Matthew McConaughey and Chris Cooper.

But he wrote the screenplay.

Music was by a young up and coming composer in his early 20s, uh, named James Horner-