
The film premiered on Octoat the Sitges Film Festival, where it won "Best Special Effects" and was in the running for "Best Film", and was part of the 2010 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. I like to leave the audience with something to ponder." Release All of my films end with a question, and somewhat ambiguously, and they always imply the beginning of another story.
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It could happen, but it would have required the movie to make a lot of money in the States, but even though the ending of the film appears to be setting up a sequel, that was never my intention. In an interview, when asked if there would be any sequels, Natali responded, "I don't think so. Filming took place in Toronto and concluded in February 2008. It was aided by Telefilm Canada's funding of US$2.5 million. Production began the following November in Toronto. In October 2007, actors Brody and Polley were cast into the lead roles. The goal is to create something shocking but also very subtle and completely believable." The centerpiece of the movie is a creature which goes through a dramatic evolutionary process. The director described the film: " Splice is very much about our genetic future and the way science is catching up with much of the fiction out there. In 2007, the project entered active development as a 75% Canadian and 25% French co-production, receiving a budget of $26 million. The script was originally meant to follow up Natali's Cube (1997), but the budget and restricted technology hindered the project. Splice was written by director Vincenzo Natali and screenwriters Antoinette Terry Bryant and Doug Taylor. She offers a visibly pregnant Elsa a large sum of money to go through with the pregnancy, which Elsa accepts. In an office tower, Joan tells Elsa that Dren's body contained numerous biochemical compounds, for which the company is filing patents. Elsa attacks Dren to help Clive but hesitates, which allows Dren to kill Clive. Clive attacks Dren to help Elsa but is overpowered by Dren. Dren, having spontaneously metamorphosed into a male, rises from the grave and attacks them, killing Barlow and Gavin before raping Elsa. Elsa says Dren is dead and buried behind the barn. William Barlow discovers human DNA in Dren's protein samples and arrives at the barn with Gavin, who revealed the location. They return to the farm to terminate Dren, but find her seemingly dying. Clive accuses her of not wanting a "normal" child prior to that because of her fear of losing control. While alone with each other, Dren uses her pheromones to seduce Clive and has sex with him, much to Elsa's horror. After Dren kills her pet cat with the stinger on her tail, Elsa restrains her roughly and amputates the stinger, then uses it to synthesize a protein for their work. Clive realizes the human DNA used to create Dren is not that of an anonymous donor, as Elsa told him, but Elsa's. She grows bored of confinement, but Elsa and Clive fear she might be discovered outside. Dren reveals she has carnivorous tendencies and retractable wings and enters adolescence. The couple moves Dren to the isolated farm where Elsa grew up. Ginger had spontaneously changed into a male, but Elsa and Clive failed to notice, as they were focused on Dren.


At a publicized presentation, Fred and Ginger fight and kill each other. Meanwhile, she and Clive neglect their work with Fred and Ginger. This forces Dren to use her gills, revealing she is amphibious. Elsa notices Dren has a fever and tries to cool her in an industrial-sized sink of cold water. After it spells out NERD with toys, seeing the acronym on Elsa's shirt, Elsa names it "Dren".Ĭlive’s brother Gavin discovers Dren, but flees after she jumps on him. The hybrid physically ages much faster than humans and mentally develops like a human child.

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Although they planned to terminate before the hybrid reached full term, Elsa persuades Clive to let it live. Clive and Elsa, however, follow their plans in secret and develop a viable prepubescent female creature. Their employers Joan Chorot and William Barlow forbid this and order them to focus on identifying and extracting proteins from Fred and Ginger for drug production. After successfully mating them, Clive and Elsa plan to create a revolutionary human-animal hybrid. Their work has yielded Fred and Ginger, two large vermiform creatures intended as mates for each other. (Nucleic Exchange Research and Development). Genetic engineers Clive Nicoli and Elsa Kast hope to achieve fame by splicing animal DNA to create hybrids for medical use at the company N.E.R.D.
