Alpha (2018 film)

Alpha
Theatrical release poster
Directed byAlbert Hughes
Screenplay byDaniele Sebastian Wiedenhaupt
Story byAlbert Hughes
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyMartin Gschlacht
Edited bySandra Granovsky
Music by
Production
companies
Distributed bySony Pictures Releasing[1]
Release date
  • August 17, 2018 (2018-08-17)
Running time
96 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageFictional 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.

  1. ^ a b c d "Film releases". Variety Insight. Variety Media. Retrieved September 12, 2017.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ "Alpha (2018)". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved September 17, 2018.
  5. ^ "Alpha (2018)". The Numbers. IMDb. Retrieved March 24, 2019.
  6. ^ "Wolf dogs lend genuine emotional weight to epic adventure 'Alpha'". August 28, 2018.