Filmmaker Fede Álvarez is ready to Foreigner Franchise with its upcoming Alien: Romulus and all the updates so far prove that it will not disappoint. Not only has it received high praise from mastermind Ridley Scott, who got this saga rolling in the first place, but his own words make it clear that this film will be nothing short of a masterpiece.
This is especially true after his recent comments on the development of the project. As Álvarez himself admitted, he did not fall for one of Hollywood’s cheapest tricks in filmmaking that ruined what could otherwise have been potential masterpieces, such as The Flash And Green Lanternincluding: Excessive use of CGI and green screens for the development part.
Fede Álvarez swears he is against Hollywood’s cheapest film trick
For some time now, Hollywood has suffered from a severe lack of originality in many areas of filmmaking, especially in fictional works about superheroes and similar genres. Instead, they have opted for the CGI and green screen approach, letting technology take control and bring their imagination to life without actually bringing it to life.
While many projects using this technique have been successful, the overuse of this technique has also led to some truly critical failures. This list of course includes films from the superverse, such as The Flash (2022) and Green Lantern (2011), but it also includes non-superhero films like skyscraper (2018) and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008).
But when it comes to the upcoming Alien: RomulusDirector Fede Álvarez seems to have had a strict rule to remain as natural as possible.
As it turns out, even the mastermind behind the Don’t breathe Film series feels like it is nothing more than “a means to an end” This robs the makers of the feeling of true and authentic filmmaking.
In a recent interview with The Movie Podcast, he talked about filmmaking with CGI and green screens, saying:
Ultimately, the set-up of the film can look fantastic, but on the actual film it just looks like that – it’s all just a means to an end, right? It’s not fun to actually be on set and see things and creatures. That also seems to have disappeared for a while in some films, and I’m not interested in that.
This is to say quite clearly that Álvarez is not too influenced by the ever-evolving technology in the film industry and has obviously made minimal use of it in Romulus as best as possible. Instead, he claimed, he took the more natural approach, channeling his inner child and doing it the primal way it’s meant to be done.
Fede Álvarez prefers to experience the adventures of filmmaking
Later in the interview, Álvarez talked about how he prefers to shoot in chronological order, even if that means constantly moving between sets just to shoot the scenes in the right order. According to his honest statements, it would be “robs you of the experience of having the adventure.”
Still, he definitely chooses to go through the adventure rather than skipping it with CGI and green screens. He continued:
Sometimes it makes more sense and stuff, but for me it’s more about having that adventure, seeing something real, seeing the characters go through that, filming it for you and then showing it, like, “This is what happened. This is the adventure we had.”
It goes without saying that Fede Álvarez is more of a filmmaker who wants to make filmmaking entertaining by building and working with real things. And this is obviously one of the best news fans of the Foreigner saga that she could ever receive, as it means we are all in for some truly spectacular action adventures in this upcoming film.
Alien: Romulus will be released in theaters on August 16, 2024.
