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The claim its something the eggs do when the only evidence is the first movie where its not even certain where the blue mist is coming from is a bit of a leap. The second, third and fourth movie have no such blue mist around their eggs, granted the third film only had one egg. Even Isolation shows that while the blue mist is present in the derelict, it is not in any of the station's hives.
I also don't think he should have confirmed that the shuttle was Narcisiss either, it should have been left as just a fun easter egg that is not to be taken seriously. The comments about androids having pre-programmed dialogue as an explanation for the call backs isn't something I agree with either, it undermines the characteristics of Bishop and Ash.
Fede was surprised he wasn't challenged on anything or at least as much as he thought he would by the podcasters, I agree with him there. One should not be afraid to question a director's choices, especially to their face. feedback from different perspectives are important.
Overall I enjoyed the film and I think he did well with, so I am glad he had a successful run here. I certainly think I can watch that movie more times than the likes of the prequels but as the common criticisms note, those callbacks and the lack of threatening presence from the aliens does lower the film a bit.
I think I would be completely fine with him making a sequel so long as he can learn to drop those elements that make the movie too much of a memberberry ride. Also if he decides to actually make an AVP film, then I hope its not a "third" one but a reboot. Nothing in those two films should be canonized or continued in anyway.
Great interview nonetheless.
And I'll say in that era to my knowledge and memory I don't recall seeing a laser like that visually on screen. Lightsabers, phasers, beams and blaster bolts yep. But that blue wide spread beam ... I doubt it and I believe that is what he was alluding to.
It just isn't true. Another movie I grew up loving was Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior. A piece of pure 80s class, massively influential and impossible to improve upon. WRONG. Feel free to disagree, but Fury Road blows it out the water in every respect.
You could make another Alien film that rivals the one we love. Hell, Aliens achieved it.
What Aliens and Fury Road did was build on their respective classics, not keep supplicating to them.
When Romulus was it's own thing, it was phenomenal.
Yes. But also, Fede said he had a rationale figured out that explains the blue mist but he was keeping it to himself. Precisely because he wanted fans to have their own own head canon.
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That's how I'm writing this off in my head canon...
I get that angle and I'm old enough to have watched most of those at the time of release too. However a beam like the one we see in the Derelict was visiaully very different to the Phasers or even blaster bolts we see in Trek, Star Wars or other films around that time.
I think that's what Fede was alluding too.
Shit, just off the top of my head, there was Star Wars, The Black Hole, Battlestar Galactica and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. All in the late 70s and chock full of lasers.
An easier way of implementing it in Romulus would be to just have blue foot lighting, for in case of power outage or some such. It would then hearken back to the blue mist without actually being the blue mist.
'Star Trek' was common household weekly viewing in the sixties, which often featured the ship or individual characters firing energy beams (yes, called 'phasers', but audiences just informerly regarded them as 'lasers', due to the similarity). 'Alien' only came about because of 'Star Wars' being such a huge cultural phenomenon, two years before. And 1979 was just before the eighties, when - trust me - every-f**king-thing was all about lasers.
Heck, the film, itself, has 'laser weapons' being handed out and we see Kane's helmet being cut open by what most people assumed to be a laser.
In 1979, we also had the James Bond film, 'Moonraker', which featured a ton of laser beams in it, including a huge outer space battle with astronauts firing them at one another (and bond having to carefully aim one, fitted on the nose of a shuttle, to save the day).
People absolutely knew what a laser was, trust me.
Which was a reference to the literal mist floating around below the beam.
It's f**king obviously technological. Yes, there's an old theory that it might be a sort of anti-tampering alarm thing, but in terms of it being fitted into the chamber, not organically grown by the actual creatures.
And an egg only racted to Kane after he physically touched one, not after he breaks the beam. We hear a high-pitched noise and that's all. The eggs do not react.
Seems pretty obvious that this is why Cameron didn't include it in his film: He doesn't set it in the derelict. Not a stylistic choice.
Cameron, who, let's not forget, has the opening scene of his film include a giant floating laser beam scanner - and wanted it so much, that he paid for it to be there.
uhm...... did fede say scott was the final script supervisor for romulus?
if so..... dear Lord.
On screen. Seeing it like that. Yep he's probably right.
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Although I wasn't blown away by Romulus, there was much I enjoyed and I would be more than happy if he is given the keys to the next one.
Good lord! I went to the first showing at 11:30 am. Me and 3 other lads in the cinema. I cringed at the "get away from her" line and laughed a bit at the first master shot of the Offspring. Enjoyed the movie quite a bit with a couple of caveats.
Yeah it would have actually worked for me if it had been something original.
I rolled my eyes at the line myself lol. However I loved seeing folks having such a great time with it. Now its a memory with my dad Ill always cherish.
I don't. Both times I saw the movie, the audience erupted into cheers and applause at that.
Although Romulus doesn't bring anything new, Alvarez does the main thing with this film!
The story with Narcissus completely breaks the connection between Ridley Scott's canon (Alien, Prometheus, Covenant, Romulus) and Cameron's Aliens, Alien 3, and Alien 4.
I'm very happy!
Which AvP script article ?
Would love to read 📚
You may not like this director now for this, but I adore him now for this!
Never apologise. You volunteer your time and this is a labour of love so only natural, at times, that life and lack of energy gets in the way. I know this from personal experience on similar passion projects that I volunteer my precious time for.
I'm sure the majority of us are supremely grateful for you and others efforts behind the scenes keeping this running.
10 mins in listening and I'm loving how open and honest Fede is about this.
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Re: Blue Mist
I don't know if I can swallow the idea that it's biological somehow... I wish he'd just left it out.
Re: Narcissus on Renaissance
God, he just made it worse... I'm really hoping it's just comic book stuff that most can ignore, and not plans for a sequel or something.