Directed by Fedor Bondarchuk. Bizarrely, news stories, article headlines and comments all seemed to allude to an alien invasion.Ohanian has now confirmed that the easter egg was purposely written in.When Ohanian floated the idea to the film’s director Aneesh Chaganty, both initially laughed before seriously considering it.The filmmakers were committed to the easter egg despite it becoming quite a challenge.

“Our same filmmaking team is in production right now on our next film, Run,” he said. And while that’s true for most of us, the day the film opened, people immediately began to catch it.“Our same filmmaking team is in production right now on our next film, Just don’t expect alien invasions to play into what comes next. And now, in the above video exclusive to “Like most amazing ideas, it started off entirely as a joke,” Sev Ohanian, co-writer and producer of “[The] joke was the idea that since we had to write a bunch of stuff anyway, maybe we could use the background of our movie to tell a completely separate plot from the main story,” Ohanian continues. Enter your email below. “It was always intended to be purely a fun joke, and it definitely does not set up a sequel in any way. I swear.”The above clip is just one of the many special features available when As reported by Gizmodo, Searching producer and co-writer Sev Ohanian confirmed that the film had a subplot about an alien invasion.

And while that’s true for most of us, the day the film opened, people immediately began to catch it.“Our same filmmaking team is in production right now on our next film, Just don’t expect alien invasions to play into what comes next. Plus, it’s set the bar for what’s to come. Monsters vs. Aliens: An animated film that portrays an alien invasion by Gallaxhar seeking out the last remaining sources of quantonium.The invasion starts off with a giant robot sent to reclaim the remaining quantonium. After a beat, I said, ‘No, but seriously Aneesh, what if we did it for real?’ And then Aneesh laughed even harder. “It was always intended to be purely a fun joke, and it definitely does not set up a sequel in any way. If you’re still recovering from the big twist in the Searching movie then you’re not probably ready for … Copyright © 2020 Penske Business Media, LLC. The shot of the White House was from our editor Nick Johnson’s trip to DC a few years ago.”As the team edited the movie, the alien subplot changed slightly. Later the main character is kidnapped and has the quantonium she absorbed extracted from her allowing the villain to clone an invasion army from himself. Ohanian and Chaganty mapped it all out as they would any other scene in the film, and their process is at the center of the exclusive new video.And while not every viewer picked up the global event occurring during the personal drama of “Searching,” Ohanian did point to the Reddit community, which caught wind of what was happening and started posting about it months ago. In the end though, it worked out not just how Ohanian and Chaganty wanted, but better than they expected.The duo didn’t think anyone would pick up on the plot for quite some time and that it would be revealed in a video like this. Producer Sev Ohanian has confirmed theories that Searching had an alien invasion subplot. “The photographs were all photoshopped by me of photos from our filmmaking team. The alien invasion subplot is snuck into the already layered story of “Searching” via news posts, Facebook comments, and trending hashtags. “Maybe something REALLY crazy, ‘like aliens, how funny would that be?’ Aneesh laughed at the idea. The alien invasion or space invasion is a common feature in science fiction stories and film, in which extraterrestrials invade the Earth either to exterminate and supplant human life, enslave it under an intense state, harvest people for food, steal the planet's resources, or destroy the planet altogether.

Courtesy of Sundance Institute, photo by Juan Sebastian Baron“[The] joke was the idea that since we had to write a bunch of stuff anyway, maybe we could use the background of our movie to tell a completely separate plot from the main story,” Ohanian said. In a spreadsheet provided by Ohanian, we are able to see how he tracked the alien subplot throughout the film.Ohanian and Chaganty didn’t think viewers would notice the subplot for a while and were taken aback when it surfaced online.However, the alien invasion subplot does not really have any significance to the main story nor a potential sequel.

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