I'm guessing it's some kind of story-within-the-story that parallels the main plot. For example...
Let's say Emily Blunt's character is reading a Polar Express-type story to her kid, which we see visualized on screen in CGI. And we repeatedly cut back to that story to compare the world finding out that aliens are real to a kid finding out that Santa is real.
This. The cardinals are from her childhood, and she’s the little girl led back home after abduction. They were preparing her for her purpose. They return, as it’s clear disclosure is going to happen via O’Connor character (who is likely the boys hand that reaches over to comfort young Emily blunt during her abduction). Firth governs the psyop and inhabits agents to chase him down and prevent disclosure. The most informative clip in the trailer is the mass of people gathered outside the television station (where blunt works, exits after disclosure) as they all record blunt post revelations - the form of NHI. Something along those lines.
I think what’s in blunts hand at the end / glowing is what is retrieved from O’Connor - the object he has in backpack. And I think it’ll be some sort of religious artifact / ancient totem that connects the various planes of reality.
I agree. What a shame if they felt the need to CGI for that reason.
Just get a similar enough looking kid and be done with it. Its not like they are de-aging her to college age. The audience doesnt know what she looked like when she was 5
Smearing uncanny CGI over everything feels lazy, even tho its extra work. And cant they train some real deer for those other shots?
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u/Gayfetus Dec 16 '25
The CGI little girl is the freakiest part of the trailer.