The 2013 film Anne Hathaway was desperate to emulate: “Please help me find a movie like this”As a former child star, it would have been very easy for Anne Hathaway to be typecast as an adult, where success with The Princess Diaries and Ella Enchanted could have led her down a path of tedious romcoms and low-budget fantasies, but instead, she has been able to branch out and enjoy an extremely varied career. The Nacho Vigalondo-directed film embodies a number of genres, ranging from traditional kaiju movies to black comedy. In an interview with Collider, Hathaway explained her decision to take on a project that was so different from anything she’d done before by starting with attending a film screening organised by the late, great Jonathan Demme. The film on offer that day was Ben Wheatley’s A Field in England, and it made quite the impression on the Oscar-winning star. It’s hard to see how a film about drugged-up Civil War soldiers inspired Anne Hathaway to make a monster movie, but the Brokeback Mountain star credits Wheatley and Jump’s work with dragging her out of a “creatively beige” period, and who are we to argue with Anne Hathaway?