Director Fede Alvarez said filming the scene felt like “the best theme park ride.”
Warning: This article contains spoilers forAlien: Romulus.
UntilTerminator 2, there was a standard sound for gunshots that everybody used.
The alien in ‘Alien: Romulus.'.20th Century Studios
I still have a fresh memory of hearing that first Beretta that they shoot at the mall.
Suddenly, it was this pop-pop, very high-end sound with no low-end.
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Cailee Spaeny as Rain in ‘Alien: Romulus.'.20th Century Studios
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Take the chestburster, for instance.
Alien: Romulus,naturally, has a chestburster scene because viewers might ask for a refund without one.
But Alvarezs version has extra elements added on top of the central body horror.
We literally vibrated the set, Alvarez says.
The whole cockpit was built on a massive gimbal.
When the character falls, its super violent.
We had to work with stunt doubles, obviously, to do it safely.
During the whole birth and everything, all the shaking is real.
Alvarez didnt exclude himself from the action.
It was the best theme park ride, he says.
We were all in it with them.
The director promises theres not one frame of CGI in the scene.
That’s how they did it in the original movie.
So, it was two different versions, but all optical visual effects were done on camera.
Im super proud of that.
Alvarez also made a change to the end of the scene.
In the original film, the little chestburster speedily scurries away after emerging from Hurt.
When babies are born, theyre exhausted, Alvarez says.
So it would be this slow burn coming out of the body.
I think its more gruesome and perverse, but also doesnt betray reality.
I approached it as if it was a nature documentary.
That just makes it way more realistic, and we applied that principle to everything in theAlienworld.
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