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avèk Etranje: Kontra, Ridley Scott sought to answer some of the disturbing, intriguing questions he raised in the 1979 film Etranje. How was the alien species created? Where did it originate from?

Etranje: Kontra, which is the second installment in Scott’s prequel series and the sixth Etranje film overall, serves as a bridge between Etranje ak 2012 la Prometheus. Set roughly ten years after the end of Prometheus, Etranje: Kontra follows the crew of the Kontra, a ship that roams the galaxy in search of an uncharted paradise. What they find is hell.

To realize his vision, Scott sought the help of screenwriter Jan Logan, Scott’s collaborator on Gladiators. Several weeks ago, I had the chance to talk to Logan about the construction of the Etranje prequel.

DG: How would you describe your relationship, your history, with the Etranje film series?

JL: I first saw Etranje in New Jersey in 1979, when I was seventeen. I didn’t know much about the film when I saw it that first time, except that it was science fiction, and the poster didn’t reveal much to me. But it was a cause célèbre when it was released, and it turned out to be a great movie-going experience for me. What I responded to in Etranje was seeing real people, the crew members in the film, put into a provocative situation, and it was the drama of this that I found extremely terrifying. You had real people who were dealing with this evolving, terrifying threat, this alien creature, and they had to find a way to survive. Ridley directed the film like a master surgeon.

DG: What was the strategy that you and Ridley Scott came up with in terms of linking this film to Alien?

JL: Etranje was a film that was steeped in purity. There was such a wonderful, frightening purity in the way those characters were placed in that terrifying situation, and Ridley directed the film like a science fiction version of Agatha Christie’s Epi lè sa a, te gen Okenn. Now that Ridley has made his version of Epi lè sa a, te gen Okenn, Ak Etranje, how do we tell an equally terrifying story that falls before Etranje? When Ridley and I looked at the 1979 film, we asked ourselves how the alien creature was created and where it came from. This formed the basis for Covenant.

DG: Kijan ou ta dekri relasyon ki genyen ant Etranje: Kontra ak Etranje?

JL: We’re taking a firm step toward Etranje with this film. There are little Easter eggs in this film that relate to the 1979 film. I picked the title Kontra, inspired by the name of the brig in the Robert Louis Stevenson novel Kidnape. The word refers to a pact between two people, a solemn agreement between two parties or rulers.

DG: How would you describe the Kontra’s mission in the film?

JL: The Kontra isn’t on a military mission, or a mining mission, unlike Etranje ak Etranje. It’s a colonial ship, and they’ve left earth, and they’ve set out on a colonization mission. They’re trying to make a new home on this new planet, which has the feel and look of dark grandeur.

DG: How would you describe the dynamic that exists between Billy Crudup’s character, Captain Christopher Oram, and Katherine Waterston’s Daniels?

JL: Billy and Katherine are at odds in the film over how they’re going to build this new world on this strange planet. Billy’s character is a religious, spiritual man who feels very uneasy about trying to take over a new planet and then remake it in their image.

DG: What questions did you want to answer in the film, and what questions did you want to leave open-ended?

JL: What happened to David between the end of Prometheus ak nan konmansman an nan Etranje: Kontra? What about Dr. Elizabeth Shaw, played by Noomi Rapace, the last human survivor of the destroyed Prometheus? Where did Shaw go at the end of Prometheus? Where did the aliens come from? What happened to David? What role did the engineers play in the creation of the alien species? These are the questions that Ridley and I wanted to answer in this film.

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DG: Although this is a prequel, you and Ridley have to contend with all of the alien sequels that have appeared over the past twenty years. How do you generate fear and tension in the aftermath of all of these films, most of which were regarded poorly by audiences?

JL: Ridley had a much broader palette to play with on this film than he did on the first film. On the first film, Ridley had one creature to play with, and he did a brilliant job. In this film, Ridley obviously had much more to play with, and you’ll see different creatures, different colors and shapes. We didn’t pay much attention to the Etranje sequels, seeing that we’re only looking ahead to the 1979 original. I think the sequels all had flaws and qualities, good and bad points. I think the key is the dynamic that exists between the human characters and the creatures in this film. That’s what I found so compelling in the first film, and that’s what we focused on in this film.

DG: How would you describe your collaboration with Ridley Scott on this film?

JL: It was similar to Gladiators. All of our conversations for both films revolved around character and drama. We wanted to go back to the purity of Etranje and other classic horror films from the 1970s and 1980s, like Halloween ak Texas Chainsaw Masak la. Steven Spielberg’s lut was another inspiration. We’re telling a story about the creation of a civilization, which led Ridley and me to talk about Shakespeare. When I worked on the James Bond series, the villains were the easiest part to write, because it was so much fun. The hardest part was writing the drama and the characters. The hardest part of writing Etranje: Kontra was writing the scenes between Daniels and Oram.

DG: As a writer, how do you approach horror and science fiction compared to the other genres you’ve worked in?

JL: I know about photon torpedoes and xenomorphs. I know very little about the Harry Potter seri ak la Seyè a bag yo universe. Like the James Bond series, I approached the Etranje series as a fan. I knew the language.

DG: Do the crew members on board the Kontra have weapons in the film?

JL: They do have weapons. A terrifying development occurs early in the film, and the tension never breaks after this. There’s no break for them. They obviously encounter this mysterious menace, and there’s great tension and unease throughout the rest of the film. This film, like Prometheus, represents a vision of hell. It has the feel of gothic horror and the Hammer horror films. It’s like Sòsye nan Oz for the characters in this film, except that their journey leads them to a discovery of unspeakable horror.

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Nouvo afich revele pou siviv kreyati Nicolas Cage a 'Arcadian' [trelè]

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Nicolas Cage Arcadian

Nan dènye antrepriz sinematik ki gen Nicolas Cage, "Arcadian" parèt kòm yon karakteristik kreyati konvenkan, ki gen anpil sispens, laterè, ak pwofondè emosyonèl. RLJE Films te pibliye dènyèman yon seri nouvo imaj ak yon afich kaptivan, ki ofri odyans lan yon aperçu nan mond lan etranj ak sezisman. "Arkadyen". Pwograme pou frape teyat sou Avril 12, 2024, fim nan pral pita disponib sou Shudder ak AMC +, asire yon odyans lajè ka fè eksperyans naratif kaptivan li yo.

Arcadian Trelè fim

Motion Picture Association (MPA) te bay fim sa a yon evalyasyon "R" pou li "imaj san," allusion sou eksperyans nan visceral ak entans ap tann telespektatè yo. Fim nan trase enspirasyon nan referans laterè aklame tankou "Yon kote ki trankil," resi yon istwa pòs-Apokalips sou yon papa ak de pitit gason l 'k ap navige nan yon mond dezolasyon. Apre yon evènman katastwofik ki depeple planèt la, fanmi an fè fas a defi a doub pou siviv anviwònman distopik yo ak evite bèt misterye nocturne.

Jaeden Martell, li te ye pou wòl li nan, ansanm ak Nicolas Cage nan vwayaj sa a "IT" (2017), Maxwell Jenkins soti nan "Pèdi nan espas," ak Sadie Soverall, prezante nan "Sò: Winx Saga a." Dirije pa Ben Brewer ("Konfians nan") ak ekri pa Mike Nilon ("Braven"), "Arkadyen" pwomèt yon melanj inik nan rakonte istwa poignant ak laterè siviv elèktrisan.

Maxwell Jenkins, Nicolas Cage, ak Jaeden Martell 

Kritik yo deja kòmanse fè lwanj "Arkadyen" pou desen mons imajinè li yo ak sekans aksyon grizant, ak yon revizyon soti nan Sanglan degoutan mete aksan sou balans fim nan ant eleman emosyonèl vini nan laj ak laterè kè-bat. Malgre pataje eleman tematik ak fim genre menm jan an, "Arkadyen" mete tèt li apa atravè apwòch kreyatif li yo ak trase aksyon kondwi, pwomèt yon eksperyans sinema plen ak mistè, sispens, ak emosyon inplakabl.

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'Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey 3' se yon ale ak bidjè amelyore ak nouvo karaktè

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Winnie Pooh 3

Wow, yo ap fè bagay yo soti vit! Sekans kap vini an "Winnie Pooh: san ak siwo myèl 3" ofisyèlman ap vanse, li pwomèt yon naratif elaji ak yon pi gwo bidjè ak entwodiksyon karaktè yo renmen anpil nan istwa orijinal AA Milne yo. Kòm konfime pa Varyete, twazyèm tranch nan franchiz laterè a pral akeyi lapen, heffalumps yo, ak woozles yo nan naratif nwa ak trese li yo.

Fen sa a se yon pati nan yon linivè sinema anbisye ki reimajine istwa timoun yo kòm istwa laterè. Akote "Winnie Pooh: san ak siwo myèl" ak premye fen li yo, linivè a gen ladan fim tankou "Kochma Neverland Peter Pan a", "Bambi: Rekondisyon an," ak "Pinokyo dekole". Fim sa yo mete yo konvèje nan evènman an kwazman "Poohniverse: Monstr Asanble," prevwa pou yon lage 2025.

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Kreyasyon fim sa yo te posib lè liv timoun AA Milne an 1926 "Winnie-the-Pooh" te antre nan domèn piblik ane pase a, sa ki te pèmèt kreateur yo eksplore karaktè cheri sa yo nan fason san parèy. Direktè Rhys Frake-Waterfield ak pwodiktè Scott Jeffrey Chambers, nan Jagged Edge Productions, te dirije chaj la nan efò inovatè sa a.

Enklizyon lapen, heffalumps, ak woozles nan fen k ap vini an entwodui yon nouvo kouch franchiz la. Nan istwa orijinal Milne yo, heffalumps yo imajine bèt ki sanble ak elefan, pandan y ap woozles yo li te ye pou karakteristik yo tankou belèt ak yon tandans pou vòlè siwo myèl. Wòl yo nan naratif la rete yo dwe wè, men adisyon yo pwomèt yo anrichi linivè a laterè ak koneksyon pi fon ak materyèl sous la.

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Ki jan yo gade 'Late Night with the Devil' soti nan Kay: Dat ak platfòm

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Sou entènèt jwèt Late Night With The Devil

Pou fanatik ki anvi plonje nan youn nan fim laterè ki pi pale sou ane sa a soti nan konfò pwòp lakay yo, "Late Night ak Dyab la" ap disponib pou difizyon sèlman sou Shudder kòmanse 19 avril 2024. Anons sa a te trè antisipe apre fim nan siksè teyat lage pa IFC Films, ki te wè li te genyen revizyon enpresyonan ak yon wikenn ouvèti rekò pou distribitè a.

"Late Night ak Dyab la" Emerge kòm yon fim laterè rekòmandasyon, kaptivan odyans ak kritik menm jan, ak Stephen King tèt li ofri gwo lwanj pou fim nan 1977-set. Ak David Dastmalchian, fim nan dewoulman jou Halloween lan pandan yon emisyon diskisyon an dirèk nan mitan lannwit ki degaje sa ki mal atravè nasyon an. Fim sa a ki te jwenn yon seri fim pa sèlman bay pè, men tou li kaptire otantikman ayestetik ane 1970 yo, ki atire telespektatè yo nan senaryo kochma li yo.

David Dastmalchian nan Lannwit ak Dyab la

Premye siksè nan bwat fim nan, ouvèti a $2.8 milyon dola nan 1,034 teyat, souliye gwo apeti li epi li make pi wo wikenn ouvèti pou yon lage IFC Films. Aklame kritik, "Late Night ak Dyab la" gen yon evalyasyon 96% pozitif sou Rotten Tomatoes soti nan 135 revizyon, ak konsansis la fè lwanj li pou rajenisman genre laterè posesyon ak montre pèfòmans eksepsyonèl David Dastmalchian a.

Rotten Tomatoes nòt apati 3/28/2024

Simon Rother nan iHorror.com Encapsule atiran fim nan, mete aksan sou bon jan kalite immersion li yo ki transpòte telespektatè tounen nan ane 1970 yo, fè yo santi yo kòm si yo fè pati nan etranj "Night Owls" emisyon Halloween lan. Rother felisite fim nan pou script li yo byen fabrike ak vwayaj emosyonèl ak chokan li mennen telespektatè yo sou, li deklare, "Tout eksperyans sa a pral fè telespektatè fim frè Cairnes yo kole sou ekran yo... Script la, depi nan kòmansman rive nan fen, byen koud ansanm ak yon fen ki pral gen machwè sou planche a." Ou ka li revizyon an konplè isit la.

Rother plis ankouraje odyans yo gade fim nan, mete aksan sou plizyè aspè li yo: "Kèlkeswa li disponib pou ou, ou dwe eseye wè dènye pwojè frè Cairnes yo paske li pral fè ou ri, li pral trennen ou soti, li pral sezi ou, e li ka menm frape yon kòd emosyonèl."

Mete pou difizyon sou Shudder le 19 avril 2024, "Late Night ak Dyab la" ofri yon melanj konvenkan nan laterè, istwa, ak kè. Fim sa a se pa sèlman yon moun ki dwe gade pou fanatik laterè men pou nenpòt moun ki ap chèche byen amize ak deplase pa yon eksperyans sinema ki redefini limit yo nan genre li yo.

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