MEN IN BLACK 3 to Feature Retro Aliens

Special effects artist Rick Baker was recently in Austin TX for Fantastic Fest for a screening of the classic horror film An American Werewolf in London. STYD caught up with Baker at the fest and he revealed the the Aliens we see in Men in Black 3 are going to be the cool retro versions we all know and love.

The thing that's cool is there is a time travel element [to the story]. Where I had fun is that we go back to the Men in Black headquarters of the '60s. The first thing I said is that we should have retro aliens, not aliens of 2012. More based on B-movies of the '50s and '60s. So, a lot of the aliens are based on that. Space suits with fishbowl helmets and ray guns.

I assumed since they were going back in time we would see these classic style aliens, but having confirmation is always nice. Baker went on to talk about the new Rise of the Planet of the Apes film, for those of you who don't know Baker worked on the Ape designs for Tim Burton's version of the film.

I did and I liked it. I went in totally expecting to hate it and loved it. I got a call from Fox very early on telling me about the project. 'It's going to be really great because we're not going to use any make-up for the apes' is what they told me. That sounded horrible and against what Planet of the Apes is. I didn't want to know about it. Then I went to see it and thought it was a terrific story and what WETA did was fantastic. Good filmmaking and I was happy to see that. It won me over.

That movie ended up winning a lot of people over. What are your thoughts on what Baker had to say?