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Check Out the Planet in ‘Rogue One’ That Was Directly Inspired By ‘Alien’
Did you know there’s a new Star Wars movie coming out this weekend?!
Look. The truth is, I know next to nothing about the Star Wars franchise/universe/whatever you want to call it. I’ve seen bits and pieces of all the films, and I absolutely loved The Force Awakens, but I’m not and have never been big into that whole world. Nevertheless, I will be seeing Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Because I like good movies. And it looks like a damn good movie.
Now that that’s out of the way.
One of the reasons I’m excited about Rogue One is that it was directed by Gareth Edwards, who made a splash with the indie film Monsters and went on to direct the 2014 version of Godzilla. As Edwards recently revealed, there will a nice little visual tribute to both Monsters and Godzilla in Rogue One, and we’ve just learned that the film will also pay homage to 1979’s Alien.
As reported by Fandango, there’s a brand new planet in Rogue One called Eadu, and the visual landscape was directly inspired by LV-426 in Ridley Scott’s seminal sci-fi/horror flick.
Edwards explained:
Films that I used in there that got high score were Apocalypse Now, a little of Thin Red Line, and there’s a planet in our film that’s very much inspired by Alien. Also Blade Runner, THX-1138 and of course the original Star Wars.
You can see Planet Eadu below, with a screen-grab from Alien underneath it.
Filming is underway on The Invisible Man director Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man for Universal and Blumhouse, which will be howling its way into theaters on January 17, 2025.
Deadline reports that Matilda Firth (Disenchanted) is the latest actor to sign on, joining Christopher Abbott (Poor Things), Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel), and Sam Jaeger.
The project will mark Whannell’s second monster movie and fourth directing collaboration with Blumhouse Productions (The Invisible Man, Upgrade, Insidious: Chapter 3).
Wolf Man stars Christopher Abbott as a man whose family is being terrorized by a lethal predator.
Writers include Whannell & Corbett Tuck as well as Lauren Schuker Blum & Rebecca Angelo.
Jason Blum is producing the film. Ryan Gosling, Ken Kao, Bea Sequeira, Mel Turner and Whannell are executive producers. Wolf Man is a Blumhouse and Motel Movies production.
In the wake of the failed Dark Universe, Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man has been the only real success story for the Universal Monsters brand, which has been struggling with recent box office flops including the comedic Renfield and period horror movie The Last Voyage of the Demeter. Giving him the keys to the castle once more seems like a wise idea, to say the least.
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