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How Alien: Romulus Brought a Major Reebok Sneaker Back to the Big Screen
Director Fede Álvarez and costume designer Carlos Rosario tell GQ about reinventing the legendary Alien Stomper for a whole new era.
By William Goodman
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Alien: Romulus Director Fede Álvarez Breaks Down That Controversial Cameo
The filmmaker behind the sci-fi hit on bringing a legacy character back to (digital) life: “I called his widow. She told me he would have loved to get invited back, because he loved that character, and he loved the franchise.”
By Jack King
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Alien: Romulus Has the Gore, But Where's the Lore?
Justice for Prometheus! A back-to-basics Alien sequel with a fresh-faced cast scores at the box office—but leaves the provocations of Ridley Scott's scuttled sequel trilogy unaddressed.
By Abe Beame
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The Zen-Dad Wisdom of Michael Keaton
Thirty-five years after playing the Ghost With the Most made him into an A-list star (and, soon after, a superhero), the legendary screen eccentric whom Jenna Ortega calls “strangely normal” returns to old haunts in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, and tells GQ what he’s learned from surviving decades in a fickle business: “You can get insecure and nervous, and go, ‘Wow, boy, I'm not doing so great right now.’ But when you get desperate, you're dead.”
By Gabriella PaiellaPhotography by Christine Hahn
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Alien: Romulus' David Jonsson On Quitting Industry For Deep-Space Terror
As the sci-fi sequel teaches a new generation to fear the facehugger, Jonsson talks about humanizing his synthetic character and why villains always have British accents.
By Jack King
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Fight Club Turns 25, and Tyler Durden Is Still the Coolest Anyone Has Ever Looked
Costume designer Michael Kaplan tells GQ about nearly getting Brad Pitt into a tube top, that iconic red leather jacket, and the look that made David Fincher say he’d “gone too far.”
By Daisy Jones
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Alien: Romulus is a Theme-Park Ride For Alien Freaks
It’s economically-oppressed Zoomers vs Xenomorphs in a new Alien sequel from Don’t Breathe director Fede Álvarez, who goes light on the series’ creepy subtext but nails the all-important scares.
By Jesse Hassenger
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How Trap Transformed Josh Hartnett Into a Normie Dadcore Serial Killer
GQ taps in with the costume designer who put Hartnett in Red Wings and chore coats for M. Night Shyamalan’s twisty horror hit.
By Daisy Jones
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George Clooney and Brad Pitt Are Hollywood’s BFFs
They’ve spent three decades living intertwined lives at the inconceivably glamorous height of Hollywood. Now, having crossed the threshold of 60, they’re more comfortable than ever throwing bombs, dispensing hard-won wisdom, and, yes, arguing about who had the better mullet in the ’80s
By Zach BaronPhotography by Sølve Sundsbø
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Kit Harington Is Ready to Shake Up Industry
With a show-stealing turn on HBO’s hotter-than-ever sex-and-banking drama and a lead part in the most talked-about play of the year, Kit Harington is on a career-redefining run—one that's only possible because of a hard-earned new outlook on life. Here he discusses unusual sex scenes, learning to take pride in his work, and what really happened with that Jon Snow spin-off.
By Sam ParkerPhotography by Danny Lowe
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Wait, Is Trap Based on a True Story?
Yes, kind of! And like every crazy 1980s event involving a pro sports team, there's a documentary about it. Read on.
By Gabriella Paiella
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Trap Is a Gift to Shyamalan Heads and Shyamalan Haters Alike
A locked-in Josh Hartnett performance holds the polarizing auteur's wackiest movie together.
By Frazier Tharpe
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Long Live Harrison Ford, Indifferent King of the Captain America Press Tour
He's 82, he's a legend, and he has no time for your stupid questions.
By Jack King
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Dìdi Is the First Great MySpace-Era Coming-of-Age Movie
The brilliant comedy-drama brings a grip of late-aughts signifiers—AIM chats, Facebook wall posts, Verizon Ringback Tones, Warped Tour bands—to the big screen in the most painfully accurate and hilarious way possible. Director Sean Wang tells GQ what it took to recreate an oft-overlooked period for his first feature film.
By Yang-Yi Goh
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Henry Cavill's Iconic Military Watches Are the Real Star of The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
In Guy Ritchie's latest spy story, the Man of Steel star straps on legendary Jaeger-LeCoultre and Cyma timepieces worn by soldiers in WWII.
By Finlay Renwick
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Emma Corrin on Deadpool & Wolverine's Ending and Killing an Iconic Marvel Hero: “I Felt So Bad”
A spoiler-filled conversation with the star of Marvel's latest big swing.
By Ben Allen
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Robert Downey Jr.'s Doctor Doom, Plus All the Other Big Reveals From Marvel's Comic-Con Panel
The MCU's original box-office hero—and Oscar winner—will return to play the Fantastic Four's nemesis in the next two Avengers films.
By William Goodman
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Timothée Chalamet’s Bob Dylan, Reviewed by Bob Dylan Impersonators
We asked four Dylan tribute-act performers what they make of Timmy-as-Zimmy in the first trailer for A Complete Unknown.
By Josiah Gogarty
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Deadpool & Wolverine Is About to Make a Pile of Money. But Can It Make the MCU Great Again?
Two GQ contributors discuss 2024's only theatrically-released Marvel Cinematic Universe film, and what—if anything—this cameo-heavy Ryan Reynolds/Hugh Jackman team-up portends for the future of the franchise.
By William Goodman and Alex Pappademas
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Deadpool & Wolverine's Most Surprising A-List Cameo Was 18 Years In The Making
The Marvel blockbuster features a slew of surprise appearances by actors from superhero movies past—and one extra-surprising guest-star turn with almost two decades of development-hell history behind it.
By William Goodman