Species (film)
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| Directed by | Roger Donaldson |
| Produced by |
Frank Mancuso, Jr. Dennis Feldman |
| Written by | Dennis Feldman |
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| Music by | Christopher Young |
| Cinematography | Andrzej Bartkowiak |
| Edited by | Conrad Buff |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures |
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108 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $35 million |
| Box office | $113.3 million |
Species is a 1995 American science fiction horror thriller film directed by Roger Donaldson and written by Dennis Feldman. It stars Natasha Henstridge, Ben Kingsley, Michael Madsen, Alfred Molina, Forest Whitaker and Marg Helgenberger. In the film, a motley crew of scientists and government agents tries to track down a seductive alien played by Henstridge before she successfully mates with a human male. Due to her ruthlessness, the alien character was cited as an example of negative treatment of female sexuality and aliens by Hollywood. The design of Sil was also linked to a chupacabra sighting.
The film was conceived by Feldman in 1987, and was originally pitched as a film treatment in the style of a police procedural, entitled The Message. When The Message failed to attract the studios, Feldman re-wrote it as a spec script, which ultimately led to the making of the film. The extraterrestrial in Species, an alien woman named Sil, was designed by H. R. Giger, also responsible for the beings from the Alien franchise. The effects combined practical models done by Giger collaborator Steve Johnson and XFX, with computer-generated imagery done by Richard Edlund's Boss Film Studios. Giger felt the film and the character were too similar to Alien, so he pushed for script changes.
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