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Effects Team Uploads ‘Alien 3’ 25th Anniversary Behind the Scenes Video
May 22nd marks the 25th anniversary of David Fincher’s Alien 3.
Famously disowned by Fincher himself, 1992’s Alien 3 polarized fans of the franchise long before Ridley Scott returned to take it in a bold new direction with Prometheus. The film, which was set on a prison planet and nihilistically killed both Newt and Hicks off with little fanfare, introduced the “Runner” (aka “Dog Alien”), a much faster breed of Xenomorph born from an animal host.
Many fans have criticized the Alien 3 villain for being brought to the screen with some seriously bad CGI, but the fast-moving Xenomorph was actually a combination of a practical man-in-suit and a rod puppet that was filmed against bluescreen and optically composited into the live-action footage – mind you, the effects often look pretty terrible, but it’s an important distinction to make.
In any event, the Xenomorph suit that Amalgamated Dynamics Incorporated made for Alien 3 (it was worn by the company’s Tom Woodruff, Jr.) was pretty damn impressive, and its construction is highlighted in a new 25th anniversary video that ADI put together using old VHS footage and behind the scenes photos. Their work on the film, it’s safe to say, was not the weak link.
Happy 25th, Dog Alien!
Described as “Ted meets ET,” David Mikalson’s raunchy comedy Goblin is being brought to life over at A24, and Will Forte (“The Four Seasons”) is now in talks to star.
Deadline first reported the news this afternoon.
Kenneth Branagh has been cast to voice the titular Goblin in the upcoming A24 movie, with the character said to be “green-colored” as well as “anatomically correct.”
Skyler Gisondo (Superman) is reportedly playing the Goblin’s human best friend.
The mysterious project sounds a bit like films including A Gnome Named Gnorm and more recently, Frankie Freako, though it’s important to note that it’s not billed as a horror movie.
Deadline details, “After [Mikalson] hatched the idea to make an outrageous buddy comedy about a goblin, using a practical puppet and operating outside the Hollywood system, his script quickly got him a rep team. While others might have eyed the raunchy comedy as a writing sample or planned to wait to see the micro-budget version Mikalson has been directing in Kentucky, A24 jumped all over it. The hot indie essentially has agreed to finance a full feature.”
“There was a lot of interest, but A24 came with what Mikalson really wanted, after spending all his money crafting the puppet title character: they acquired the movie and agreed to let him make it with a significantly increased budget than what he had left after creating the anatomically correct title character,” Deadline’s report goes on to explain.
What does the titular Goblin actually look like? Well, a cake that Mikalson had whipped up for his reps might give us our first look at what to expect. Deadline explains the photo you’ll see down below, “Take a look at the cake he commissioned with Marc Gravelle at Cake Art in West Hollywood, to present to his reps as thanks for making his dream come true.”
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