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Passing from Priscilla has Alien Romulusthe young Cailee Spaeny has made a big leap: she tells us today in SFX Magazine than to chain together scenes of fear and screams in front of Fede Alvarez's camera (Don't Breathe), she watched a lot of horror films while designing this new opus of Ridley Scott's terrifying saga. In particular Chainsaw Massacrewhich had partly inspired the English filmmaker in 1979, but also The Blair Witch Projectwhich has just celebrated its 25th anniversary, or even At the borders of dawnthe 1987 Kathryn Bigelow vampire film released in theaters. Not to mention that she watched the Aliento soak up Sigourney Weaver's performance.
“We end up running out of ideas, she confesses. You wonder how you're going to be able to be credible by playing a new terrified scene in an interesting way. In mode: 'You know, I have three expressions to express fear, and I've already told you a hundred times!' (laughs) Honestly, on these kinds of films, when you shoot for months, and you've done so many scary takes, you don't know how to look horrified anymore! So during the whole shoot, as soon as I got home I would get back into the mood with a sci-fi or horror film. Most of the time, it was horror.”
Cailee Spaeney Watched Sigourney Weaver's Aliens Over and Over to Prepare for Romulus
Filmed in mid last year in Budapest, Romulus follows young colonists growing up on a currently uninhabitable planet, crossing paths with terrible Xenomorphs. An idea that Fede Alvarez had after seeing a deleted scene fromAliensby James Cameron, showing children in the base that takes in Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver).
“It's a concept that comes from Aliens, confided its director and co-writer last March. I remember seeing this in a long version of the movie. There's this moment where kids are running through the hallways of this colony. I put myself in their shoes, I thought: 'Wow! What would it be like to grow up in a colony knowing that it still needs 50 years to be terraformed?' There is no sunlight, there is no nature, no real life… You know that you will end up taking the place of one of your parents, that you will inherit the same job as them. In my films, I am always interested in these kinds of characters. Maybe because I grew up in Uruguay, in a small town? I feel connected to those who grew up in these kinds of places, thinking that all the important things in the world were happening somewhere else.”
“Seeing these children, I remember saying to myself: 'If I ever have the opportunity to tell a story in this world, I'd be interested in the story of these kids who are in their twenties: what do they want to do with their lives? Where do they want to go?', Alvarez continues. From there, when they come face to face with the creature, the dynamic will be completely different. (from what we have already seen in the previous ones Alieneditor's note). I think that's why we were able to do Romulus : When Ridley read it, he felt that it would be different from other films. It shared the same DNA, but at the same time it offered something else, it seemed fresher. Mainly because young people of that age have a different approach to problems compared to adults and professionals. They see these experiences in a different way.”
Alien Romulus will be released in theaters on August 14. Here is its trailer:
Ridley Scott and James Cameron both 'loved' Alien: Romulus