A teaser trailer has been revealed for the latest in what has been a long line of films featuring your (un)friendly space alien, Xenomorph. Don’t Breathe and Evil Dead director Fede Alvarez brings the sci-fi horror to the screen as he takes the reigns from Ridley Scott and navigates the seventh film in the series (or 9th if you want to include AvP series) following Ridley’s last Alien outing with Alien: Covenant in 2017.
The sci-fi/horror-thriller takes the “Alien” franchise back to its roots: While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonisers come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe.
The film stars Cailee Spaeny (Priscilla), David Jonsson (Agatha Christie’s Murder is Easy), Archie Renaux (Shadow and Bone), Isabela Merced (The Last of Us), Spike Fearn (Aftersun) and Aileen Wu. Fede Alvarez directs from a screenplay he wrote with frequent collaborator Rodo Sayagues (“Don’t Breathe 2”) based on characters created by Dan O’Bannon and Ronald Shusett.
Alien: Romulus is produced by Ridley Scott (“Napoleon”), who directed the original “Alien” and produced and directed the series’ entries “Prometheus” and “Alien: Covenant,” Michael Pruss (“Boston Strangler”), and Walter Hill (“Alien”), with Fede Alvarez, Elizabeth Cantillon (“Charlie’s Angels”), Brent O’Connor (“Bullet Train”), and Tom Moran (“Unstoppable”) serving as executive producers.
Fede Alvarez spoke in a recent interview with Hollywood Reporter that he’s brought back the practical effects artists from Aliens to do the puppet and animatronics for Alien: Romulus – guys who were in their twenties at the time and who have had a lifetime of experience since. So with both the creatures and the sets physically built, both full size and with miniatures, and with the film pitched at a timeline between Alien and Aliens, could this be the movie that sets the franchise back on the right trajectory and get fans screaming again? We’ll let you be the judge of that.
ALIEN: ROMULUS is destined to hit UK and US cinemas 16th August 2024.
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