Species III
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| Directed by | Brad Turner |
| Produced by | David Dwiggins |
| Written by | Ben Ripley |
| Starring | Sunny Mabrey, Robin Dunne, Amelia Cooke |
| Distributed by | MGM |
| Release date(s) | November 27, 2004 |
| Running time | 111 min, 112 min ("Unrated" version) |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
| Preceded by | Species II |
| Followed by | Species: The Awakening |
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Species III is a 2004 direct to video follow-up to the 1995 science fiction movie Species, and its 1998 sequel Species II. It was directed by Brad Turner and stars Sunny Mabrey, Robin Dunne, and Amelia Cooke. Natasha Henstridge reprises the role of Eve in a brief cameo. Its US broadcast premiere was on the Sci-Fi Channel. It was then released as a standard and unrated edition on DVD.
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[edit] Plot summary
Immediately following Species II, Eve (actually unconscious and not dead), gives birth to offspring, and is then killed by one of several alien half-breeds (apparently some of Patrick's children must have survived. This one was seen in the back of the ambulance at the end of Species II) who snaps her neck with his tongue. Dr. Abbot, who is driving the medical vehicle, decides to kidnap one of the newborns so he can use the alien DNA to his advantage. Several months pass and the offspring has grown into a young girl, which he names Sara (Sunny Mabrey), after looking at a food package made by Sara Lee. At this time, the halfbreed that killed Eve comes to Dr. Abbott for help and dies in his office, much of his flesh decaying in a manner similar to his father's. A few days later, Sara reaches adulthood. Abbot hopes to create perfect DNA using Sara's eggs, in order to win the Nobel Prize, and invites a student, Dean (Robin Dunne), to be his assistant and share his research and future awards. In the meantime, Sara, now a striking young woman, almost breeds with another half-breed that has found her, but she rejects him when she discovers that he, like all the other half-breeds, are dying off from natural diseases due to weak immunities (it is also possible she rejected him because they share the same father). Later, while Dean and Abbot are trying to take blood from Sara, this half-breed attacks and attempts to impregnate Sara. Abbot is able to kill the half-breed before he can succeed, but is mortally wounded in the process. Dean is then faced with the dilemma of whether or not to create the perfect species, which Sara is urging him to do. Dean's roommate then accidentally makes contact with Amelia, the female leader of the half-breeds, who shows up and demands, along with Sara, that the roommate makes the perfect species so they both can have mates. He almost does so, but is saved by Dean and a government agent that tracked Sara down after Eve's corpse was found to have been pregnant. They take Sara's eggs and run to a nearby experimental power plant that Dean had worked at. In the end Dean attempts to kill Sara and Amelia by dropping them, along with Sara's harvested eggs, into the power plant's core. Amelia attempts to kill him in revenge for destroying the eggs and anger, but in a surprising twist, Sara saves him and throws Amelia into the core, although she apparently falls in herself. Later it is revealed that she survived and Dean pulled her to safety. He then made the perfect mate for her using some of the half-breed DNA (after he had removed the damaged D.N.A strands) so that Sara wouldn't be alone but unbeknownst to Sara and the male, made him sterile. At the end he asks Sara why she saved him as she no longer had a reason to (her eggs were destroyed by him so she no longer had anything that was compelling her to) and she told him that one day maybe he'd know before leaving with her mate.
[edit] Trivia
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- Executive Producer Frank Mancuso, Jr. wanted this sequel to be aimed more at young adults so the characters were written to be younger than what was originally planned.
- This film was Sunny Mabrey's first film with full exposure, frontal and rear.
- Sunny Mabrey, who played Sara, was the first person cast in the film and was the first choice by director Brad Turner.
- The budget was not as high as the previous installments, so the make-up supervisor, Rob Hinderstien played the security guard who gets sliced in half in the film as a cameo role. He revealed on the DVD that the company did not have enough money to cast and make a realistic dummy of the actor for this scene. Rob then offered the producers his contribution of a self-portrait dummy he made whilst he was in college. This was slightly modified and was used in the film. This is all revealed in an Easter Egg special on the DVD.
- There are small references to the past two films. One is where Sara regenerates her arm after it is crushed by the train, a nod to the regeneration of Sil's thumb in the first film and the regeneration of Patrick's head in the second film. There is also a humorous reference when a campus student tries to kiss Sara and she says to him, "You don't want the tongue..." which is a reference to the first film where Sil penetrates her victim's neck with the use of her tongue while kissing him.
- A scene which was changed due to budgetary reasons had Sara scratch a campus student's cheek with her alien finger, which looked like a spike. Instead, this was changed to Sara throwing the man over her into a hedge in the final film.
- The film was shot in high-definition video.
- Producer Frank Mancuso, Jr. wanted the creatures to look slightly different from H R Giger's original concept. He did not contribute to the designs in this film and the creatures were redesigned by Rob Hinderstien.
- This is the first Species film where the main female alien character is not killed. In fact, she saves the life of the main character by her own free will, even though she no longer has any reason to be forced to. He in return, saves her. It is also the only film of the four in which the main alien is never pregnant nor has sex.
[edit] Sequel
A third sequel was in talks with Nick Lyon who is directing the new installment, due out in 2007. Ben Ripley is returning again to write the script. The fourth installment of the Species franchise continues in Mexico, where new experiments with DNA bring horrific results. An MGM/360 Production, Frank Mancuso, Jr. oversaw the production that began in October 2006 on Species IV, it's working title. Mancuso has served as Producer on the previous Species movies, and as Executive Producer on this direct-to-DVD sequel. The sequel was announced as Species: Quattro, but it is now known as Species - The Awakening.
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