Director Duncan Jones Explains HowMuteSuddenly Became a Scifi Film

There are two huge scifi movies coming from fan favorite directors this weekend . One you ’ll have to head up to theaters to see : Alex Garland ’s Annihilation . The other — the long - expect , highly - anticipate Mute , direct by Duncan Jones — is make it on Netflix .

Jones got his start with the awful film Moon , directed the very solid Source Code , and recently made Warcraft , which was a bit more divisive than the last two but visually still impressive as hell . However , long before he made any of those , Jones had an thought for a noir tec story about a humankind who could n’t speak going into a seedy underground to witness the fair sex he bed . Originally , the theme was set in the mod daytime , but it finally developed scifi component and became Mute .

Jones told us about how that contemporary melodic theme became science fiction , and how that typeset developed into something wholly unique , yet recognizable :