Alien spaceship (10 Cloverfield Lane)

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Alien spaceships
An alien spaceship in 10 Cloverfield Lane
Alternate names Martian, Alien Crop Duster,
Crop Duster Creature[1]
Species Giant biomechanical alien creature
Allies Mutant space worm, other ships
Enemies Humanity
Designed by Nick Hiatt, Bruno Werneck,
Raul Dominguez
First appearance 10 Cloverfield Lane
Roar(s)
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Russians are developing some nasty stuff. And if the Martians finally figured out a way to get here, their weapons will make the Russkies' look like sticks and stones.
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Howard Stambler (10 Cloverfield Lane )

Three living alien spaceships appear in the 2016 Bad Robot film 10 Cloverfield Lane.

Name

The aliens are not referred to by any particular name in the film. "Alien spaceship" is used here as a conjectural descriptor.

Concept artist Bruno Werneck called the craft "Alien Crop Duster" and "Crop Duster Creature".[1]

Development

According to 10 Cloverfield Lane director Dan Trachtenberg, the design for the alien spaceships were inspired by the Gears of War franchise.[2]

Design

The alien spaceship are a cyber-organic structure in a metallic gray coloration with multiple greenish lights across their bodies, plank-like wings and hexagonal patterns on their sides, and panels across their bodies. A structure A structure resembling aircraft stabilizers is positioned at the back, and the front end of the craft has a faint glowing red light. Among those cybernetics is pale, organic flesh located on the sides and bulb-like protrusions attached to a vent like organ opposite to one another on the tail end of the craft. It’s undercarriage is made up of panels that can open, revealing a large creature within, the exterior ship fused to their bodies like an armor, with sac-like organs surrounding a greenish mouth. Adorned with four fangs and what appears to be molar-like teeth that run along the center on the top and bottom jaws, it is surrounded by several, overlapping, metal tubes. The creatures appears to have an orange organ that can be seen at the back of their throats when they roar. Other panels can open up, revealing multiple, long pink tendrils that can retract back into the ship.

Origins

Not much is known about these aliens other than their hostile intentions towards the human race. The film's alternate reality game includes a conversation between astronauts aboard the International Space Station and a spacecraft communicator at the Christopher C. Kraft Jr. Mission Control Center in Houston. Following their report of a "localized burst of magnetic energy" and "flash of red light that seemed to come from... everywhere," the astronauts are instructed to remove the conversation from their mission log.[3] Emmett also witnessed a tremendous flash of red light as the invasion began.

History

10 Cloverfield Lane

After Michelle escapes Howard's bunker, she soon spots an alien craft in the distance while standing atop a car. When the bunker, already burning, explodes, it catches the ship's attention. It flies closer to the farmhouse, deploying a four-legged scout before leaving. It reappears over the house after Michelle hides from the creature in Howard's truck, spewing toxic, flammable gas. She survives using her improvised hazmat suit and notices small fires near the house erupting when the gas touches them. She returns to the truck, but the ship lifts it up with its tendrils and begins pulling it towards its organic mouth. It is destroyed when she throws a Molotov cocktail into its mouth, causing it to explode. As Michelle drives towards Houston, flashes of lightning reveal two more ships.

Abilities

Gas

The ships are able to emit a green gas that proves fatal against unprotected humans and animals. This gas is highly combustible, leaving the ship highly vulnerable to any flaming object thrown into its mouth.

Deployment

The ships also possess large jaws and retractable tendrils they use to grab objects and deploy four-legged scouts. The degree to which these scouts are under the aliens' control is questionable, as the one which menaces Michelle flees when the ship returns.

Roar

One of the roars emitted by an alien spaceship as it pulls Howard's truck towards its mouth is a lower-pitched Clover roar.

Alien spaceship roars

Trivia

  • Marketing for 10 Cloverfield Lane prior to its U.S. theatrical release did not include a single image of the alien spaceships. However, stills and footage of them were later used to promote the film in several countries, including Thailand, Australia, Russia, and Japan.

References

This is a list of references for Alien spaceship (10 Cloverfield Lane). These citations are used to identify the reliable sources on which this article is based. These references appear inside articles in the form of superscript numbers, which look like this: [1]

  1. 1.0 1.1 Werneck, Bruno. "Alien Crop Duster". ArtStation. Retrieved 15 October 2021.
  2. Jesse Schedeen (April 23, 2020). "10 Cloverfield Lane: The Surprising Video Game Inspirations and Other Cool Details Revealed". IGN.
  3. Cloverfield Clues - Audio File From Hidden 10 Cloverfield Lane USB Drive

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