Mallory Rubin

But, like, you know, they've all got their big heads and their big eyes and their gray skin and their long fingers, their spindly fingers.

And, you know, E.T.

looks different, but, like, I would say general shape-adjacent.

Close Encounters aliens are incredibly similar to how the aliens in here look.

Tall and short.

Yeah, exactly.

And War of the Worlds is the tripod design, obviously very different, but the craftsmen inside, you know, they have the very different like head plumes, but I'd say the design outside of that is not like so radically different.

I'm kind of like, where's like the equivalent of Rocky?

You know, just like if the idea is that we're not alone.

Or like in the Doctor Who universe, like, you know, that we're not alone.

There's life everywhere.

One of them is a gelatinous blob.

Exactly.

Like, give us the kind of like everything everywhere all at once, like hot dog finger equivalent here of just like something.

I mean, they kind of did have hot dog fingers, but I take your point.

yes you're right that's actually all we have here you want the rocks you want the sentient rocks something just feels like a way to reinforce visually in a movie where movie making what we can do through story and visual language can remind us of our place in the world it's just like show us how big the world is it's funny that we got this far into this story about aliens and religious belief and all of this and I didn't mention and crop circles and I didn't mention one of my favorite movies actually which is Signs I love Signs and like

I think some of it is of the moment and some of it is it doesn't feel like there's an advancing of the thesis.

Which is where we started.

But we've done it and we've done it more successfully.

The aliens are here, they came to Earth, they're actually not the bad guys and let's embrace them and show at the end that actually we can.