Director of A Cult ’90s Sci-Fi Admits He Ripped Off Alien

Director Renny Harlin has admitted that his 90s sci-fi film, Deep Blue Sea, borrowed a key plot point from Alien. In an interview with Empire magazine, Harlin explained that he replicated a shocking death scene similar to the one involving Tom Skerritt’s character in Alien. Harlin wanted to create the same feeling of surprise and uncertainty for the audience – the expectation that the captain (Skerritt) would be a central character, only to have him unexpectedly killed off, establishing that no one was safe in the film.








