“I think we can all agree that the planet is about to get hotter and wet,” said Hawley, a tropical location full of rivers and canals. Initially, he envisioned Prodigy’s soldiers traveling around New Siam on a train, but once he visited Bangkok, it was clear: we will put people on the boat, [and] It will help sell the idea that the water has been taken back to some cities. ”
Hawley’s design team built a square mile of new Siam in Unreal Engine, the same graphics software used to develop video games Fortnite and Final Fantasy VII Rebirth. According to Hawley, in the eyes of prodigy, there is “hierarchy” in the city: humans minus humans, humans and human primes (although the concept is not discussed on screen in the last clip of the series).
“The higher you go, the richer you are, and the lower you go, the poorer you are.” When the prodigy soldier descended to Magnot Crashed, we see “Human Minus” living in a dark underground cabin, but when they climb the company’s super tower, they stumble upon a Louis XIV theme party, directly from JG Ballard’s ” High-rise. Even higher, we first met the CEO of Weyland-Yutani thousands of feet above another corporate city (a Chicagoan who asked not to be named would endorsed).
In a world run by trillions of people, “where are adults?”
On our live scene, Elon Musk is a 54-year-old man who still thinks the 4/20 joke is fun and he is expected to be one of the earliest multimillionaires. In the 22nd century Alien: Earth“The Youngest Multimillionaire of All Time” is Boy Kavalier, played by Samuel Blenkin, a fanatical “boy genius” who founded a prodigy at the age of 6 and is now in his twenties.
“The CEO of this company told himself he was Peter Pan,” Hawley said. “And you read Peter Pan And you go, “It’s a dark book.” He kidnapped these children, and he took them to this island, [and] This means that when they start to grow up, he gets rid of them. “In a nice literary similar situation, Kavalier Peter PanLost boy.
Apart from his costume designer Suttirat Anne Larlarb, Hawley decided to wear pajamas throughout the series because he had everything in Prodigy City and Neverland because he had no shoes throughout the series. “Everything is his house,” Holly said. “The thing about the money I’ve observed is that at some point everything is free. You don’t feel the loss of money, you don’t actually buy anything or realize the deal.”
But Cavalier’s super healthy mindset can also affect the way he sees and treats others. “The branches are rescued by income stents,” he said. Magnot The crash turned the prodigy into a massive casualty incident. Kavalier, Holly said, “is a way to think about the world I live in now, and it’s: Where are adults? Where are people who think about tomorrow want tomorrow more than today?”
“Retro Intuitionism” meets a brand new monster
The first episode is MagnotHawley’s production designer worked hard to recreate the appearance of Ridley Scott Nostromo. “That’s it alien In my case,” Hawley said, “It’s retro Pruitism. Those are the ancient cathodes [ray] Control monitor. This is the green ASCII text. That’s those crazy keyboards with Egyptian hieroglyphs, like how do they know what they’re writing? ”
And in 1979 alien Hawley spent 40 minutes building the daily life of a space truck driver Alien: Earth The same thing must be done in just four minutes. “Translation of movies into TV, your first job is authenticity,” Hawley said. Nostromo Blueprint “Up to Props”.
