Sep 8, 2026 · 1 hr 25 min · 14 segments
As exciting as the start of a new theme month usually is here at F2F, this time it comes with a little bit of foreboding, as well. That's because we're kicking off September's "FALLure to Franchise"…
Okay, yes, Fallen is directed by Scott Hicks.
He did a lot of In Excess music videos.
So he's kind of a romance guy.
You know what's funny, too,
is when you say he's directed a lot of In Excess videos, that just immediately tells you, like, his age.
And you go, like, yeah, that's the guy you want to get to direct a YA adaptation in 2016.
It's like...
A guy in his late 60s, yes, yes.
Anyways, go ahead, sorry.
Yeah, yeah, no, no, you nailed it.
Bear the lead, okay? Fallen is written by Michael Arlen? Oh, yeah, yeah, okay, I can't read my own notes.
Written by Michael Arlen Ross.
So this is a horror guy.
They wrote The Game Plan with The Rock, who is no stranger to this podcast.
They also are TV people, so TV producers for Bull, Guilt, and the True Lies series.
Short-lived, but the True Lies series, nonetheless.
So they're kind of TV people.
So we got romance people.
We got horror people.
We got TV series people, which makes sense that you pile all those together because this novel is, well, I guess this movie is based on the first novel of a six-book series that started in 2009 and went to 2015, written by Lauren Kate.
I said it sold a lot.
It actually sold like 10 million copies worldwide.
Okay, yes, Fallen is directed by Scott Hicks.
He did a lot of In Excess music videos.
So he's kind of a romance guy.
You know what's funny, too,
is when you say he's directed a lot of In Excess videos, that just immediately tells you, like, his age.
And you go, like, yeah, that's the guy you want to get to direct a YA adaptation in 2016.
It's like...
A guy in his late 60s, yes, yes.
Anyways, go ahead, sorry.
Yeah, yeah, no, no, you nailed it.
Bear the lead, okay? Fallen is written by Michael Arlen? Oh, yeah, yeah, okay, I can't read my own notes.
Written by Michael Arlen Ross.
So this is a horror guy.
They wrote The Game Plan with The Rock, who is no stranger to this podcast.
They also are TV people, so TV producers for Bull, Guilt, and the True Lies series.
Short-lived, but the True Lies series, nonetheless.
So they're kind of TV people.
So we got romance people.
We got horror people.
We got TV series people, which makes sense that you pile all those together because this novel is, well, I guess this movie is based on the first novel of a six-book series that started in 2009 and went to 2015, written by Lauren Kate.
I said it sold a lot.
It actually sold like 10 million copies worldwide.
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