Said Henstridge, who plays Sil, “It’s a film to watch for fun and to not read into it too much. It’s intelligently made and it’s beautifully made.” Kingsley, who plays Fitch, described “Species” as a “popcorn flying through the air” kind of movie, adding, “It has a lot more to offer than the run-of-the-mill. “It’s scary in kind of a shlocky way, and intriguing in an intelligent way,” Molina observed, comparing “Species” to such classic science-fiction fare as “The Incredible Shrinking Man” and “The Invasion of the Body Snatchers.” Stephen Arden, a Harvard University anthropologist, said “Species” reminds him of “very smart B-movie trash. Mancuso balked at disclosing the budget for the MGM Pictures release, saying it was “more than ‘Clerks’ but less than ‘Waterworld.’ ” Mancuso then confirmed “Species” cost between $40 million and $50 million. This (‘Species’) is about summer popcorn.”Įxpensive summer popcorn. I wanted to make a good, escapist summer entertainment.”Īdded “Species” producer Frank Mancuso Jr., “I think we kind of had this good rock ‘n’ roll attitude. It had a sense of humor and didn’t take itself too seriously. “I saw it as a smart, populist entertainment. “I never saw this movie as a meaningful movie,” admitted Donaldson. In that tradition, it’s like an amusement park thrill ride with jokes between the jolts. “Species” is this summer’s scary-monster movie. When the experiment fails, Sil - who quickly metamorphoses into a beautiful young woman - escapes. Research scientist Xavier Fitch (Kingsley) heads a top secret experiment within the walls of a secure base in the Utah desert. The reply contains a DNA sequence - and the friendly instructions to combine it with our own DNA. Now, here’s where the fiction of “Species” takes over: Twenty years later, the message is answered. The message contains information about Earth and its inhabitants, what we look like, where we live and - significantly - the DNA sequences that make up the human cell. Since 1974, the world’s largest radio telescope, located in a jungle basin in Puerto Rico, has been relaying a message to the galaxy. In the film directed by Roger Donaldson and starring Ben Kingsley, Michael Madsen, Alfred Molina, Forest Whitaker and Marg Helgenberger, Sil (newcomer Natasha Henstridge) is the result of a United States government experiment gone awry.
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