The very first look we got at Fede Alvarez’s Alien: Romulus was a set picture of the Renaissance Station, in which fans very quickly noticed an iconic piece of scenery from Creative Assembly’s much loved Alien: Isolation – the save station. In fact, I think it would fair to say for a lot of fans, a creative’s opinion of the game is quite important to us.
Talking to Inside Total Film Podcast – for an episode being released this week and being teased by GamesRadar – Fede shared his opinion on Alien: Isolation and how it reinforced his opinion on the effectiveness of the Alien.
"Alien: Isolation was kind of what made me see that Alien could truly be terrifying and done well [today]. I played a few years after it came out. Don't Breathe was coming out. Or was I waiting for Don't Breathe to come out, and I was playing the game. That's why, at the time, I was like, 'f**k, if I could do anything, I would love to do Alien and scare the audience again with that creature and those environments.' I was playing, and realising how terrifying Alien could be if you take it back to that tone."
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And the Isolation homages go further than the save stations simply being set decoration in the film, Fede utilizied them as a visual warning that something very bad is about to happen to the characters.
"The movie is set up in a way [that] every time something bad is about to happen, you will see a phone. In the game, every time you knew there's a phone you'd go, 'f**k, I'm about to go into some bad set-piece.' It's the same thing here. You'll see they're planted strategically throughout the film. When you see the phone, it's like: brace for impact."
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