Five days before director Olivia Newman began prep for Netflix’s Remarkably Bright Creatures movie—which began streaming today—she lost her home in the Los Angeles’s Eaton Fire. “After losing my own home, I had a different understanding of what that attachment to home actually means,” Newman told Decider in a recent Zoom interview. “It’s really about the history that is connected to objects in your house.” Loss, grief, and leaving one’s home happens to be a major theme in Remarkably Bright Creatures . Alongside co-writer John Whittington, Newman adapted the script from the best-selling 2022 novel by Shelby Van Pelt, about a lonely widow named Tova (Sally Field, also an executive producer on the film), who is still grappling with the death of her son, decades later. She finds comfort in speaking to giant octopus, Marcellus, at the aquarium where she works as a cleaning lady. Marcellus can’t speak back, but the audience hears his thoughts via a delightful voice-over narration provided by Alfred Molina.…