65 Movie Super Bowl Trailer Terrifies With The Perfect Alien Reference

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The new 65 Super Bowl trailer builds tension with the perfect reference to Ridley Scott's Alien. The upcoming film stars Adam Driver as a futuristic astronaut who crash lands on Earth 65 million years in the past, when dinosaurs still roamed the planet's surface. He and Koa, the only other survivor, must use their advanced technology to fight off the deadly prehistoric creatures and find a way to survive.

Now, Sony Pictures Entertainment releases the 65 Super Bowl trailer a couple days before the big game.
 

The 30-second spot shows clips of Driver's character, Mills, on the crashed future spacecraft, as well as exploring prehistoric Earth while protecting Noa and trying to find a way home. Featured in the 65 movie trailer are letters that fade in, one-by-one, to read "65 Million Years Ago," presentation that harkens back to the opening of Alien, whose opening minutes featured a similar fade-in for its title.

How 65 Can Take Inspiration From Alien


The inclusion of text that fades in similarly to that of Alien's opening minutes indicates that writer-directors Scott Beck and Bryan Woods were inspired by Scott's classic sci-fi horror movie when crafting the story for 65. Despite the action-packed trailers showing Mills shooting at or running from dinosaurs, it's possible that 65 will also feature slower, terrifying moments that build tension similarly to Alien. While it's unlikely this film will feature a high number of deaths, given the small cast, the atmosphere of Scott's movie could still carry over to some scenes.

The characters' presence in an unfamiliar, prehistoric world already proves that 65 will be fraught with danger, with the goal of finding a way home indicating Mills will need to use the ship to build some way back to their time period. The new 65 movie trailer shows what appears to be muddy water leaking through the doors of the crashed ship, showing that, much like Alien, it will not be a safe haven for Mills and Noa to hide in. The inclusion of raptors in the film's trailers highlights them as a credible threat, their size making it possible for an Alien-inspired sequence to transpire inside the ship.

With Beck and Woods already writing a tense monster feature with A Quiet Place, it wouldn't be surprising for 65 to use various dinosaurs to create that same tension. The film will be able to use open-spaced, action-packed sequences and slower, Alien-like encounters to craft a riveting, dramatic adventure as Mills and Noa try to find their way home. It will prove interesting to see just how much inspiration 65 takes from classic sci-fi horror when the film releases next month.