There’s also this crazy creature called a giant larvacean. This parallels the ability of Nope‘s creature to camouflage into the clouds. It gives them this amazing ability to camouflage against any surface. But also, these animals and other cephalopods have color changing pigment cells called chromatophores. And so he liked how the cuttlefish attracts prey through a form of hypnosis. He wanted the viewer, and the cast members, to be mesmerized by the creature. One big inspiration for Jordan was cuttlefish. When he was designing the eyeball, for example, he’s like, “I really want to do a square eyeball, but does that exist anywhere in nature?” It’s not very common, but octopus have this very square iris actually. Like, “Is there anything like this that exists?” I think marine animals have freaky, weird attributes that provide great inspiration for alien-like things. He had a clear vision for how he wanted the creature to look and then was hoping for certain elements. Kelsi Rutledge: Jordan wanted to make something that was still in the realm of scientific possibility. Nerdist: What are some of the animals that inspired Nope‘s alien design? #NewSpecies /nwwqkFrvXO- Kelsi Rutledge September 1, 2019 Earth’s oceans are home to many mysterious animals after all. But it turns out that people have actually seen things like Nope‘s alien species before. A giant green eye pulsed at Daniel Kaluuya while we all held our breath. Like nothing we’ve ever seen before, the saucer unfurled like petals opening to the sun. The ship-like form included a mouth that vacuumed up horses and humans as tasty prey. Nope‘s big flying saucer reveal was that it wasn’t an alien ship at all. Nope‘s alien’s scientific name is Occulonimbus edoequus, which translates to “hidden dark cloud stallion-eater.” More on that badass choice in our conversation with Rutledge, below. The four will author a scientific paper describing the new species. She is the science consultant for OJ, Emerald, and Angel as well. In the upcoming bonus materials, Rutledge becomes a character in the world of Nope. Kelsi Rutledge, a graduate student at the University of California, Los Angeles, advised Jordan Peele and the rest of the creative team on the design and name of Nope‘s infamous alien, the Occulonimbus edoequus. But the film is better, and scarier, because it did. While it may be tempting to see the appearance of the xenomorph at the end of Prometheus as the beginning of the Alien creature, there are some hints that this is not the first time the Engineers have encountered it.Nope may not seem like the kind of movie that needs to consult scientists. The Alien is fully formed when it emerges. A xenomorph hatches directly from the dead body of the Engineer that resembles the traditional, eye-less Alien - with the marked difference that it does not undergo the traditional Alien gestation cycle (egg -> Facehugger -> Chestburster/Alien). Prometheus ends with the surving Engineer on LV-223 getting killed and infected by the squid-like creature given life by Shaw and Holloway. It has a round opening in the top, and is empty." The Xenomorph Note that the scene that shows the object was never filmed: "It is a large, glossy urn, brown in color, with peculiar markings. It is unknown whether the ship on LV-426 carried eggs that hatched and infected the Engineer(s) or if it was carrying the containers with the black substance shown in Prometheus.Ī sentence found in the original script for Alien mentions a container similar to the ones shown in Prometheus near the body of the dead Engineer. This suggests that the xenomorph infestation on LV-426 originated from the facility on LV-223 and that the events shown in the holographic footage in Prometheus may be related to how the (then known as) "space jockey" Engineer died. He suggests that the ship originated from LV-223, carrying dangerous cargo and landed on LV-426 more than a millennium before the events in both movies. According to Scott, the derelict spaceship seen in Alien was similar to the one shown in Prometheus, but was in fact a "brother," not the same ship. The two ships in Alien and Prometheus are different. According to Ridley Scott, the two planetoids are in the same star system. Most of Prometheus takes place in the last week of the year 2093, between Christmas and New Year's Day (the events on Earth take place in 2089) - a full 28 years before the events in Alien.Įven though the worlds and the crashed/landed spaceships resemble each other, Prometheus is set on a planetoid with the designation LV-223, while Alien takes place on LV-426 (aka Acheron). According to a 2015 IGN interview with Ridley Scott, speaking about the Prometheus sequel: "I'm trying to re-resurrect the beast and let if off the hook for a while because I’m coming back into the back-end of Alien 1.
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