“I think we can all agree that the planet is about to become much warmer and much more humid,” says Hawley, and Bangkok is a tropical position full of rivers and canals. Initially, he imagined the soldiers of Prodigy who moved around the new Siam on the trains, but once Bangkok once visited: “It has become very clear: we will put people on the boats, [and] It will help to sell this idea that water has recovered part of the city. “
The Hawley design team built a new Siam square mile in Unreal Engine, the same graphic software used to develop video games such as Fortnite AND Final Fantasy VII Rebirth. In the eyes of the prodigy, there are “more levels” of the city, according to Hawley: Humanity Minus, Humanity Plus and Humanity Prime (although this concept is not discussed on the screen in the final cut of the series).
“The more you go, the richer you are and lower go, the more you are poorer,” says Hawley. When the prodigy soldiers descend where the Maginot crashed, we see “less humanity” who lives in dark underground holes, but when the company’s supertall towers go up, they stumble on a themed party of Louis XIV directly from JG Ballard Skyscrapers. Even higher, we meet the Weyland-Yutani CEO for the first time thousands of meters above another business city (an unnamed Chicagoan will recognize).
“Where are adults” in a world managed by trillion?
In our real gift, Elon Musk, a 54 -year -old man who still thinks that 4/20 jokes are fun, is ready to become one of the first trillions. In the 22nd century of Alien: earthThe “youngest trilionaire ever” is the boy Kavalier, played by Samuel Blekin, an egomaniaco “boy genius” who founded Prodigy when he was six years old and is now 20 years old.
“The CEO of this company is said to be Peter Pan,” says Hawley. “And then read Peter Pan And you go, “it’s a dark book”. He is kidnapped these children, he is bringing them to this island, [and] It is implicit that when they start growing, it gets rid of them. “In a nice literary parallel, Kavalier creates the first hybrids in an search structure on an island island called Neverland and rename them later Peter Pan“Lost Boys”.
Next to his costume designer Suttirat Anne Larlarb, Hawley decided that Kavalier would wear the pajamas without shoes during the series because he owns everything in Prodigy City and Neverland. “Everything is his home,” says Hawley. “The thing about the money I observed is at some point, everything is only free. You don’t feel the loss of money, in reality you are not buying anything or aware of the transactions.”
But Kavalier’s Ultrawealy mentality also affects the way in which it sees and treats other people. “Triage the Rescue by income Bracket”, instructs his right arm after Maginot Crash transforms Prodigy City into a mass victim event. Hawley says Kavalier “is a way to literalize what I feel when I look around in the world in which I live at this moment, who is: where are the adults? Where are the people who think more tomorrow than today?”
“Retro-Futurism” meets the new monsters
The first episode opens on the Maginot, where Hawley’s production designers scrupulously recreated the appearance and feeling of the Nostromo di Ridley Scott. “Here’s what Alien It’s, as far as I’m concerned, “says Hawley.” It is the back-phaurism. It’s that old cathode [ray] Tubi monitor. It is the ASCII green text. They are those crazy keyboards with the Egyptian hieroglyphics in which, how, how do they even know what they are writing? “
While 1979 Alien I spent 40 minutes to establish the daily life of space truck drivers, Hawley knew it Alien: earth I had to make the same thing in just four minutes. “Translation of a film on television, your first job is authenticity,” says Hawley, so the Maginot It was designed on Ridley Scott’s Boatswain projects “up to stage objects”.
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