We were concerned the audience wouldn’t know which clone was which.
We talked about using a wig, but I stole Ratso Rizzo’s cough for the sick cloneI wanted Sam Rockwell to play the villain in Mute, a film I later made for Netflix.
But he wanted to play a blue-collar kind of guy.
We both liked the sci-fi films of the 70s and early 80s – Silent Running, Alien, Outland – and the sense of realism and mundanity they brought to space, with a lot of the day-to-day grind comparable to jobs on Earth.
So I said: “Let me see if I can write something.”
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