‘Alien Romulus‘, the new and long-awaited installment of the xenomorph film saga, premieres in Spain next August 15th and the promotional machinery on the part of disney It is already working at full speed. And after the reveal of its first trailer and the screening of up to 15 minutes by its director, Fede Alvarezwhich MeriStation was able to attend last week in the city of Barcelona, now we want to echo some statements from the filmmaker himself in relation to the visual effects of his new film, for which he decided to bet mostly on the practical effects instead of the widespread CGI of the blockbusters, with Marvel and D.C. in his sights.
Fede Álvarez bets everything on practical effects
Thus, and as part of his European promotional tour that took place last week, the director Fede Alvarez addressed an essential theme in every science fiction film with alien creatures: the visual effects. And after speaking with the media Metro, the Uruguayan filmmaker revealed that for ‘Alien Romulus’ he wanted bet everything on practical effects more traditional instead of the widespread CGIalways talking about the majority of scenes with the xenomorph, but not with the space flight sequences, for example.
“The ideal is to deceive you, which is what I think movies to some extent have stopped trying to do. Maybe because it is a different thing, it is not to go against the movies of Marvel either D.C.but I think that they try to be photorealistic. Nobody is trying make you believe that the creature or whatever it is is there”, assures Álvarez in relation to the advantages that well-made practical effects offer compared to digitally generated images integrated into real environments.
So much so, that the filmmaker believes that current digital effects have stopped surprising the public, so he decided to go for more effective practical effects in this sense. ‘Alien Romulus‘ is released in cinemas Spain the next August 15th.
