Species was met with mixed reviews from critics, who felt that the film's execution did not match the ambition of its premise, but nevertheless turned out to be a box office success, partly due to the hype surrounding Henstridge's topless scenes in various tabloid newspapers and lad mags of the time, grossing US$113В million ($201В million in 2021 dollars). Several scenes were filmed in Utah and at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. Most of the principal photography was done in Los Angeles, California, where the film is set. Giger felt that the film and the character were too similar to Alien, so he pushed for script changes. The effects combined practical models designed by Giger collaborator Steve Johnson and XFX, with computer-generated imagery done by Richard Edlund's Boss Film Studios. Giger, who was also responsible for the beings from the Alien franchise. The extraterrestrial aspect of Sil's character was created by H. When The Message failed to attract the studios, Feldman re-wrote it as a spec script, which ultimately led to the making of the film. The film was conceived by Feldman in 1987, and was originally pitched as a film treatment in the style of a police procedural, entitled The Message. The film's plot concerns a motley crew of scientists and government agents who try to track down Sil (Henstridge), a seductive extraterrestrial-human hybrid, before she successfully mates with a human male. It stars Natasha Henstridge (in her film debut role), Ben Kingsley, Michael Madsen, Alfred Molina, Forest Whitaker and Marg Helgenberger. Species is a 1995 American science fiction horror film directed by Roger Donaldson and written by Dennis Feldman.

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