a) Fede Alvarez: This is a cryochamber scene close to the beginning, I would say midway through second act of the film. Most of the group had got locked in this room and half the group is outside, and they're trying to help them to get out of there before things get really bad, the way they're about to get. Andy needs an upgrade to be able to get out of that door and open the door for them. That's what's happening right there. One of the first scenes written on the script, I would say, where we always wanted, the idea of a group of friends, a bunch of kids trapped in a room with a lot of facehuggers. And the simple concept of just adding one foot of water so you don't see them coming and they could jump at you from any possible corner. (Alien: Romulus | Scene Breakdown With Fede Álvarez Part 2 video on the official Alien Romulus Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/alienanthology/videos/518812343944560)
b) Fede Alvarez: All those are practical Facehuggers as well, there no way we were going to make them CGI because the interaction with the water was going to make it impossible. Every shot of those is just me holding the camera and move the facehugger on the water. I was fascinated how effective that simple the trick was. You really feel like you see them swimming on the water. This is where chaos starts to happen. First face hug we shot on the movie. This was probably shot almost like six days we spent inside that room. That was very important, though. It's one of my favourite shots in the movie. It was very important to show a new generation what this thing is trying to do, why are they jumping on people's faces, and so, we needed to show the proboscis; the tongue that the Facehugger had, that is the spike that it's trying to get inside your mouth. Because it's trying to lay its eggs inside you, which is of the best ideas in science fiction horror. (Alien: Romulus | Scene Breakdown With Fede Álvarez Part 2 video on the official Alien Romulus Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1349757326002226)
c) Fede Alvarez: That was us just throwing facehuggers at Spike, just left and right so he could bat them all the time. That was a very fun thing to do. That was an homage to David Fincher. Alien 3 has that shot of the xenomorph POV running around on a red room as well. A part of the whole plan of the scene was to ... to bet who's gonna get face hugged first. You have all these characters trapped there and for many moments there's a close encounter and one of them can get it. You don't know, really, who's gonna get it and that's the tension building of the scene that anybody can get it at any moment. That's actually practical. We had to do that 24 times to get that thing to jump through a door. Those are practial as well by the door. This is a mix of techniques but wow that's my favourite shot in the movie right there. They're coming out, one sneaks through. Boom. Face-hug. I love it. (Alien: Romulus | Scene Breakdown With Fede Álvarez Part 3 video on the official Alien Romulus Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/alienanthology/videos/1018022123109005)
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