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Captive State is a 2019 American science fiction thriller film directed by Rupert Wyatt and co-written by Wyatt and Erica Beeney. The film stars John Goodman , Ashton Sanders , Jonathan Majors , Colson Baker , and Vera Farmiga , and follows a young man who participates in a conspiracy to rebel against an alien race that had invaded Earth and ...
Mar 19, 2019 · Rupert Wyatt's sci-fi alien invasion film Captive State has a confusing ending thanks to the ambiguous approach to the film. Here's what happened.
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Mar 15, 2019 · Here is a thriller about an alien invasion that mostly avoids mass destruction and firefights. Instead, the story follows the humans on the ground, as they go through their routines and, eventually, execute an elaborate plan of subterfuge to try to start a global uprising against the aliens.
When young Gabriel Drummond joins the insurgency, he soon finds himself under careful scrutiny from a shadowy figure who's trying to crush the rebellion and its plans for freedom.
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- Captive State hits theaters on March 15 in the US and March 29 in the UK.
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By Terri Schwartz
Updated: Mar 15, 2019 7:36 pm
Posted: Mar 15, 2019 12:05 am
There have been countless different approaches to the alien invasion story, from sci-fi epics like Independence Day and Close Encounters of the Third Kind to more personal cultural and political commentaries like USA's Colony. Director Rupert Wyatt, perhaps best known for his work on Rise of the Planet of the Apes, opted for the latter with his new film Captive State, which is set in Chicago nearly a decade after militarized aliens occupied America and tells the story of both those who are for and against the extra-terrestrial forces.
Wyatt, who co-wrote the story with his wife Erica Beeney, knew they wanted to tell a more modern, timely story through the lens of science fiction. The origin of Captive State was the idea of exploring the stories both the collaborators and dissidents on both sides of an occupied state. But Wyatt and Beeney opted not to go the route of a historical drama (which, coincidentally, he already directed in the pilot of AMC's Turn: Washington's Spies) and instead looked to the near future and "create this idea of we're putting a documentary film crew into the future and we're under occupation by an alien life form."
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At the end of the day, though, this is an alien story -- which means, yes, you will see some aliens. Referring to whether or not to reveal what their extra-terrestrials look like as "the Jaws question," Wyatt once again went back to real-life circumstances to try to figure out what made the most sense for this movie. Originally, his team didn't want to put a face to Captive State's occupier, but realized once they got to the editing process that showing the invaders was necessary to show what the humans are up against. The aliens in this movie are only revealed at a few very effective moments, which borrowed from the concept that, for "an Iraqi civilian in Baghdad in 2004 ... it'd be very rare they might ever see [a US soldier] pass through a street in convoy, or coming through their door at 3 o'clock in the morning. But other than that, the coalition would be sequestered and sort of not part of everyday life."
If you do walk out of Captive State hoping for a sequel, don't worry, Wyatt has already started thinking about what comes next. Even though Captive State is designed as a standalone story, it leaves the door open to future installments of this potentially budding franchise -- and, Wyatt confirms, there have been "conversations" about doing exactly that.
"[Captive State] has a very finite ending to it that brings to a resolution the greater goal of a particular character. ... [But] it's interesting because this in some ways, has aspects of longer-form storytelling; there are multiple characters, there's the hyper-narrative," Wyatt said. "I think some of the characters that survive our story would go into the more global conflicts between humans and aliens -- like, this is the Arab Spring and we'll then go tell the story of the actual militarized fight-back. And then, the final film could possibly go off planet. They came obviously, from a carbon-based planet and they've colonized other planets along the way and so, being able to go and explore that would be great."
For more on IGN, be sure to check out IGN's review of Captive State below. Let us know what you think of the movie in the comments below!
Set in a Chicago neighborhood nearly a decade after an occupation by an extraterrestrial force, 'Captive State' explores the lives on both sides of the conflict - the collaborators and dissidents.
Mar 15, 2019 · Rupert Wyatt, the director of the new sci-fi thriller 'Captive State,' explains the futuristic backdrop that makes the alien invasion story tick.
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