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* CreatorBacklash: Creator/MichelleWilliams, who played the young Sil, doesn't remember fondly the film due to the amount of bullying she got after it was released.
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* OldShame: Creator/MichelleWilliams, who played the young Sil, doesn't remember fondly the film due to the amount of bullying she got after it was released.
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* FollowTheLeader: While not a full-on ''Film/{{Alien}}'' rip-off, Giger himself complained that there were too many similarities, starting with his involvement in designing the creature.
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* FollowTheLeader: While not a full-on ''Film/{{Alien}}'' rip-off, Giger himself complained that there were too many similarities, starting with his involvement in designing the creature. There's something of a paradox here: as WebVideo/GoodBadFlicks notes, Roger Donaldson was not a "genre" director, and someone more versed in sci-fi horror might have taken Giger's input more seriously. . . but Donaldson saw Giger's artbook and, like Ridley Scott, immediately knew this was the man he wanted to design his monster, so without Donaldson Giger might never have been attached to the project. But once Giger ''was'' involved, the studio seemed interested in banking on Giger's name and connection to ''Alien'' more than they were interested in his ideas.
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* ContractualObligationProject: Creator/NatashaHenstridge's cameo in ''Species III''.
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* DoingItForTheArt: Creator/{{MGM}} didn't want to shoot the nightmare train sequence, hoping to keep costs down. Creator/HRGiger financed the sequence himself, with $100,000 of his own money. {{Suverted}} in that he expected studio reimbursement, and in the end the model he built was used for only a few seconds and he was only reimbursed half what he paid to have it made. He later admitted that when he gets an artistic idea going, he sometimes had trouble making good business decisions.
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* DoingItForTheArt: Creator/{{MGM}} didn't want to shoot the nightmare train sequence, hoping to keep costs down. Creator/HRGiger financed the sequence himself, with $100,000 of his own money. {{Suverted}} {{Subverted}} in that he expected studio reimbursement, and in the end the model he built was used for only a few seconds and he was only reimbursed half what he paid to have it made. He later admitted that when he gets an artistic idea going, he sometimes had trouble making good business decisions.
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* DoingItForTheArt: Creator/{{MGM}} didn't want to shoot the nightmare train sequence, hoping to keep costs down. Creator/HRGiger financed the sequence himself, with $100,000 of his own money.
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* DoingItForTheArt: Creator/{{MGM}} didn't want to shoot the nightmare train sequence, hoping to keep costs down. Creator/HRGiger financed the sequence himself, with $100,000 of his own money. {{Suverted}} in that he expected studio reimbursement, and in the end the model he built was used for only a few seconds and he was only reimbursed half what he paid to have it made. He later admitted that when he gets an artistic idea going, he sometimes had trouble making good business decisions.
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** Giger also designed Sil to be translucent, and a detailed animatronic was made showing assorted internal details. However, because of how the animation icon was lit and shot, and the fact that the woman-in-suit and CGI versions of Sil could not be translucent, this detail is easily missed.
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** Giger also designed Sil to be translucent, and a detailed animatronic was made showing assorted internal details. However, because of how the animation icon animatronic was lit and shot, and the fact that the woman-in-suit and CGI versions of Sil could not be translucent, this detail is easily missed.
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** Giger also designed Sil to be translucent, and a detailed animatronic was made showing assorted internal details. However, because of how the animation icon was lit and shot, and the fact that the woman-in-suit and CGI versions of Sil could not be translucent, this detail is easily missed.
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** Giger had envisioned more stages of Sil's transformation, but the film only employed the last one.
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** Giger had envisioned more stages of Sil's transformation, but the film only employed the last one. Giger also envisioned Sil glowing with red-orange heat, getting brighter and hotter as she got angrier or felt more threatened. The studio claimed such a thing would be impossible, and when Giger had test designs made to show it could be done, they still refused.
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** Giger also disliked the ending the scripwriters had created, feeling it was too similar to both ''Film/Alien3'' and ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay''. He eventually convinced them to finish Sil by headshot and not with fire.
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** Giger also disliked the ending the scripwriters had created, feeling it was too similar to both ''Film/Alien3'' and ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay''. He eventually convinced them to finish Sil by headshot and not with fire. Giger felt that flamethrowers were both too similar to ''Alien'' and, that with his intention of Sil to actually emit heat as a defense, fire would be completely ineffective.
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** Another notable one would be the team using a computer simulation to see how fast it would take for the effects of Sil mating and then that progeny also mating. As they watch in horror, dots of red flash across the world, then turn into a wave until, within a decade, the human race is extinct.
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* CreatorsFavorite: Creator/MichaelMadsen [[https://metro.co.uk/2009/10/27/michael-madsen-242331/ once claimed]] that ''Species'' was one of the six movies out of the ''150+'' he made until then that he was actually proud of. The [[Film/SpeciesII sequel]], on the other hand...
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* CreatorsFavorite: CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: Creator/MichaelMadsen [[https://metro.co.uk/2009/10/27/michael-madsen-242331/ once claimed]] that ''Species'' was one of the six movies out of the ''150+'' he made until then that he was actually proud of. The [[Film/SpeciesII sequel]], on the other hand...
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** Giger also disliked the ending the scripwriters had created, feeling it was too similar to both ''Film/{{Alien3}}'' and ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay''. He eventually convinced them to finish Sil by headshot and not with fire.
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** Giger also disliked the ending the scripwriters had created, feeling it was too similar to both ''Film/{{Alien3}}'' ''Film/Alien3'' and ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay''. He eventually convinced them to finish Sil by headshot and not with fire.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The 1994 Northridge earthquake and the damage that was still left over from it is briefly mentioned near the start of the first film. Normally this wouldn't be that big of a deal, but near the end of the story Sil hides away in a cavern to give birth, and Laura says that the entrance to the cavern "must have been created by the earthquake". Modern-day viewers who don't remember the Northridge earthquake (or don't get that it's what Laura's referring to) will likely be left scratching their heads and wondering "''what'' earthquake?"
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* DeletedScene: Tons of them, as the original cut of the movie was two hours and seven minutes long.
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* DeletedScene: Tons of them, as the original cut of the movie was two hours and seven minutes long. A particularly notable one is Press and Laura discussing Sil's nature before kissing... which was supposed to be the ending, before the producers decided that closing on that SequelHook rat scene was more than enough.
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* ExtremelyLengthyCreation: Dennis Feldman had the idea for Species in 1987, as he worked on another film about an alien invasion, ''Film/RealMen''.
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* ExtremelyLengthyCreation: Dennis Feldman had the idea for Species ''Species'' in 1987, as he worked on another film about an alien invasion, ''Film/RealMen''.
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** The treatment for the film was called ''The Message'' and was more of a {{police procedural}}, with the alien being created by a "bathtub geneticist"[9] who had just had his project aborted by the government, and a biologist who had worked on the project getting along with a police officer to search for the creature.
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** The treatment for the film was called ''The Message'' and was more of a {{police procedural}}, with the alien being created by a "bathtub geneticist"[9] geneticist" who had just had his project aborted by the government, and a biologist who had worked on the project getting along with a police officer to search for the creature.
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* AwesomeDearBoy: Michael Madsen signed on immediately at the chance to play a heroic role for a change.
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* DarkHorseCasting:
** The filmmakers opted to go with reasonably known character actors as opposed to stars - in the hopes of putting more money into the special effects. Ben Kingsley coming on board however did a lot to "legitimise" the production. Michael Madsen as TheHero likewise was extremely odd, considering his best known roles were as psychopaths.
** When casting Sil, they kept running into problems; they tested loads of potential actresses, but couldn't find one with both the beauty and acting experience they needed. When they expanded the casting to include models, Natasha Henstridge was favored. While she was trying to transition from modelling to acting, she had no film experience, and plenty of higher-ups didn't want to give the most important role in the film to someone so new.
** The filmmakers opted to go with reasonably known character actors as opposed to stars - in the hopes of putting more money into the special effects. Ben Kingsley coming on board however did a lot to "legitimise" the production. Michael Madsen as TheHero likewise was extremely odd, considering his best known roles were as psychopaths.
** When casting Sil, they kept running into problems; they tested loads of potential actresses, but couldn't find one with both the beauty and acting experience they needed. When they expanded the casting to include models, Natasha Henstridge was favored. While she was trying to transition from modelling to acting, she had no film experience, and plenty of higher-ups didn't want to give the most important role in the film to someone so new.
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* HostilityOnTheSet: Creator/BenKingsley was very protective of his chair, insisting that no-one touch or sit in it. Creator/MichaelMadsen pranked him by hiding his chair, putting garbage on it and even hanging it from a crane. Kingsley was furious at this, so much that he refused to sit near Madsen during the press tour. They eventually made amends.
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** Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger was briefly interested in the script, but it was clear that the budget wouldn't allow him.
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* DoingItForTheArt: MGM didn't want to shoot the nightmare train sequence, hoping to keep costs down. Creator/HRGiger financed the sequence himself, with $100,000 of his own money.
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* DoingItForTheArt: MGM Creator/{{MGM}} didn't want to shoot the nightmare train sequence, hoping to keep costs down. Creator/HRGiger financed the sequence himself, with $100,000 of his own money.money.
* ExtremelyLengthyCreation: Dennis Feldman had the idea for Species in 1987, as he worked on another film about an alien invasion, ''Film/RealMen''.
* ExtremelyLengthyCreation: Dennis Feldman had the idea for Species in 1987, as he worked on another film about an alien invasion, ''Film/RealMen''.
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* FollowTheLeader: While not a full-on ''Alien'' rip-off, Giger himself complained that there were too many similarities, starting with his involvement in designing the creature.
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** Creator/MichelleWilliams, who played the young Sil, doesn't remember fondly the film due to the amount of bullying she got after it was released.
* PlayingAgainstType: Michael Madsen, normally a villain, plays TheHero, with one particular scene establishing him as a KindheartedCatLover.
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** Creator/MichelleWilliams, who played the young Sil, doesn't remember fondly the film due to the amount of bullying she got after it was released.
* PlayingAgainstType: Michael Madsen, normally a villain, plays TheHero, with one particular scene establishing him as a KindheartedCatLover.
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* FollowTheLeader: While not a full-on ''Alien'' ''Film/{{Alien}}'' rip-off, Giger himself complained that there were too many similarities, starting with his involvement in designing the creature.
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**HarpoDoesSomethingFunny: Creator/MichaelMadsen and Marg Helgenberger were allowed to improvise their sex scene.
* InspirationForTheWork: Having read an article by Creator/ArthurCClarke about the insurmountable odds against an extraterrestrial craft ever locating and visiting Earth, given that stellar distances are great, and faster-than-light travel is unlikely, Dennis Feldman started to think that it was "unsophisticated for any alien culture to come here in what [he]'d describe as a big tin can." Thus in turn he considered that the possibility of extraterrestrial contact was through information. Then he detailed that a message would contain instructions from across the void to build something that would talk to men. Instead of a mechanical device, Feldman imagined wetware. The visitor would adapt to Earth's environment through DNA belonging to Earth's organisms. Mankind has sent to space transmissions "giving out directions" such as the Arecibo message, which Feldman considered unwary, as they relay information to potential predators from outer space. He pointed out that "in nature, one species would not want a predator to know where it hides."
* OldShame: Creator/MichelleWilliams, who played the young Sil, doesn't remember fondly the film due to the amount of bullying she got after it was released.
* PlayingAgainstType:Michael Madsen, Creator/MichaelMadsen, normally a villain, plays TheHero, with one particular scene establishing him as a KindheartedCatLover.
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* InspirationForTheWork: Having read an article by Creator/ArthurCClarke about the insurmountable odds against an extraterrestrial craft ever locating and visiting Earth, given that stellar distances are great, and faster-than-light travel is unlikely, Dennis Feldman started to think that it was "unsophisticated for any alien culture to come here in what [he]'d describe as a big tin can." Thus in turn he considered that the possibility of extraterrestrial contact was through information. Then he detailed that a message would contain instructions from across the void to build something that would talk to men. Instead of a mechanical device, Feldman imagined wetware. The visitor would adapt to Earth's environment through DNA belonging to Earth's organisms. Mankind has sent to space transmissions "giving out directions" such as the Arecibo message, which Feldman considered unwary, as they relay information to potential predators from outer space. He pointed out that "in nature, one species would not want a predator to know where it hides."
* OldShame: Creator/MichelleWilliams, who played the young Sil, doesn't remember fondly the film due to the amount of bullying she got after it was released.
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** The treatment for the film was called ''The Message'' and was more of a police procedural, with the alien being created by a "bathtub geneticist" who had saw his project aborted.
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** The treatment for the film was called ''The Message'' and was more of a police procedural, {{police procedural}}, with the alien being created by a "bathtub geneticist" geneticist"[9] who had saw just had his project aborted.aborted by the government, and a biologist who had worked on the project getting along with a police officer to search for the creature.
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** Creator/PierceBrosnan was offered a part in this movie, but declined due to scheduling conflicts with ''Film/GoldenEye''.
