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| Directed by | Albert Hughes |
| Screenplay by | Daniele Sebastian Wiedenhaupt |
| Story by | Albert Hughes |
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| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Martin Gschlacht |
| Edited by | Sandra Granovsky |
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| Distributed by | Sony Pictures Releasing[1] |
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Running time | 96 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Fictional language[2][3] |
| Budget | $51 million[4] |
| Box office | $99.6 million[5] |
Alpha is a 2018 American prehistoric adventure film directed by Albert Hughes and written by Daniele Sebastian Wiedenhaupt, from a story by Hughes. The film stars Kodi Smit-McPhee as a young hunter who encounters and befriends an injured wolf during the last ice age, with Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson as his father. The wolf Alpha is played by Chuck, a Czechoslovakian Wolfdog.[6]
Principal photography began in February 2016 in Canada and lasted through that April. The film was delayed several times, before being released in the United States on August 17, 2018, by Sony Pictures Releasing. It grossed over $99 million worldwide and received generally favorable reviews from critics, who praised the performances and cinematography.
- ^ a b c d "Film releases". Variety Insight. Variety Media. Retrieved September 12, 2017.
- ^ O'Sullivan, Michael (August 16, 2018). "'Alpha' is a boy-meets-wolf love story, set in the Ice Age. And yes, it works". The Washington Post. Retrieved August 21, 2018.
In an invented language with subtitles.
- ^ Wilkinson, Alissa (August 15, 2018). "Alpha takes a conventional boy-and-his-dog tale and does something wholly unexpected with it". Vox. Vox Media. Retrieved August 21, 2018.
Alpha is the rare film that dares to imagine that American audiences are willing to sit in a multiplex and read subtitles, since the members of the clan, who already don't utter much dialogue, speak in an unidentified prehistoric language.
- ^ "Alpha (2018)". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved September 17, 2018.
- ^ "Alpha (2018)". The Numbers. IMDb. Retrieved March 24, 2019.
- ^ "Wolf dogs lend genuine emotional weight to epic adventure 'Alpha'". August 28, 2018.