{"id":1042529,"date":"2021-10-26T21:46:42","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T21:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/entertainment\/22747528\/invasion-apple-tv-plus-simon-kinberg-interview"},"modified":"2021-10-26T21:46:42","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T21:46:42","slug":"invasions-simon-kinberg-wants-to-take-over-reddit-with-theories-about-his-aliens","status":"publish","type":"station","link":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/plato-data\/invasions-simon-kinberg-wants-to-take-over-reddit-with-theories-about-his-aliens\/","title":{"rendered":"Invasion\u2019s Simon Kinberg wants to take over Reddit with theories about his aliens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Simon Kinberg is out to invoke one of sci-fi\u2019s greats:The War of the Worlds<\/em>. Not the original H.G. Wells novel, which he loves, but Orson Welles\u2019 1938 radio drama. Welles\u2019 broadcast, the tale goes, was so immersive that some listeners believed the United States really was<\/em> being invaded by beings from another world. (Though that reaction wasn\u2019t nearly as common as most retellings suggest<\/a>.) The panic, however brief and limited, was part of what inspired Kinberg in the creation of Invasion<\/em>, the Apple TV Plus drama that follows five people immediately after a hostile-seeming alien presence arrives on Earth.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow, obviously, you couldn\u2019t do that today, with social media and technology and marketing, and what you and I are doing right now,\u201d Kinberg tells Polygon. \u201cBut I wanted to tell an alien invasion story that felt as real and grounded scientifically, emotionally as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

After decades of working on massive franchises \u2014 most notably as a writer and producer on the most recent X-Men films, but also as the co-creator of Star Wars: Rebels<\/em> \u2014 Invasion<\/em> is perhaps Kinberg\u2019s biggest foray into original storytelling since scripting 2005\u2019s Mr. and Mrs. Smith<\/em>, a wildly entertaining Brad Pitt\/Angelina Jolie spy rom-com that was also Kinberg\u2019s film-school thesis. Co-created with David Weil (best known for creating the Amazon series Hunters<\/em><\/a>) Invasion<\/em> brings a varied scope to its science fiction premise, often feeling as much like an intimate This Is Us<\/em>-style drama<\/a> as it does a sci-fi spectacle. This is very much by design.<\/p>\n

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