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‘Alien: Romulus’ Director Fixed CGI Ian Holm for Home Release After ‘We Ran Out of Time to Get it Right’ for Theaters: ‘I Convinced the Studio to Spend the Money’
Fede Álvarez did not like the way CGI Ian Holm looked in "Alien: Romulus," so he fixed it for the movie's home release.
“Alien: Romulus” director Fede Álvarez said in an interview with Empire magazine that he understands why some viewers reacted negatively to the appearance of late actor Ian Holm in the film. Holm’s likeness was resurrected through CGI and by creating an animatronic head and torso for the actor that was based on a body cast he had made for his work as Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson’s “The Lord of the Rings” movies. In an interview with Variety shortly after “Alien: Romulus” opened in theaters last August, Álvarez said that he decided to use Holm’s likeness in the movie “out of fairness in a way,” adding: “I felt it was so unfair that Lance Henriksen made many appearances, and Michael Fassbender.
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