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‘Alien: Romulus’ Filmmaker Fede Alvarez’s “Third World” Inspiration For Origins Sci-Fi Pic – Crew Call Podcast
'Alien: Romulus' director Fede Alvarez talks to Deadline about winning over Scott Free with his take, his third world inspiration and the wonder of Cailee Spaeny.
Similar to how Tony Gilroy expanded upon the early roots of Star Wars with Andor and Rogue One, Alvarez thrusts us into a deeper dive of a future proletariat society’s inner workings and how spaceship laborers are pawns in a world where a faceless ‘man’ is poisoning them with science. That take would have seen the return of Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley, Michael Biehn’s Hicks, an older Newt against new Xenomorphs in a jungle setting with mercenary factions and vicious new synthetic androids. Of late, she’s on a hot streak with Priscilla, Civil War and the upcoming Rian Johnson Knives Out mystery, Wake Up Dead Man, that rivals that of Florence Pugh pre-Covid with such titles as Fighting With My Family, Midsommar, Little Woman and Black Widow.
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