Cate Blanchett and an Alien Invasion

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CATE BLANCHETT AND AN ALIEN INVASION

Don't Look Up. Netflix.

Cate Blanchett is ready to conquer the Earth.

She is set to star in Alpha Gang, the latest in absurdist cinema from The Zellner Brothers (dir: Sasquatch Sunset).

Here’s the official synopsis:

Alien leader Alpha One and her crew disguise themselves as an armed and dangerous 1950s leather-clad biker gang to invade Earth. Their conquest plan derails when they experience the most toxic, contagious human disease of all: emotion.

Blanchett stated that the film:

“[Has] created a far out world in order to lampoon something much closer to home: the hilarious, absurd, and peculiar truth of the human condition.”

Blanchett’s recent roles have been tinged with an absurd lack of human emotion:

• Tár (2022)

  • Cruel Maestro whose internal rhythm elicits terror

• Don’t Look Up (2021)

  • Phony talks show host who takes pleasure in knowing humanity is doomed

• Nightmare Alley (2021)

  • A psychologist who betrays Bradley Cooper

We couldn’t be more excited to see how she extrapolates these traits into this new role. Maybe it'll be tinged with the poetic emptiness of Scarlett Johansson's alien in Under the Skin.