‘Alien: Romulus’: The Beloved Franchise Returns To Its Terrifying Roots
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From Ryan Cordaro
I’ve personally enjoyed nearly every Alien movie I’ve seen. At least I’ve enjoyed all the mainline ones, I don’t really care for the Alien vs. Predator movies, but I’m not even sure if those are canon. I do like Prometheus and Alien: Covenant, though, which are apparently divisive now? I can understand not liking Covenant, but not liking Prometheus feels weird to me. Either way, it’s been a minute since we’ve gotten anything Alien-related. There’s going to be a FX series created by Noah Hawley coming soon, but for now, we’ve got the first entry in the franchise in seven years.
Not much is out there in terms of specific plot details yet, but Alien: Romulus will follow a group of young people on a distant world who find themselves in a confrontation with the most terrifying life form in the universe. Romulus will be set in between the first two films, Alien and Aliens. Some crew members from the second movie even returned for Romulus to build the Xenomorph featured in the film. Director Fede Alvarez has mentioned that both James Cameron and Ridley Scott, the latter being a producer on Romulus, both gave notes to him and ended up loving the final product. It’s also worth noting that while this was originally supposed to be a streaming exclusive on Hulu, Disney was so impressed that they announced that it would be a theatrical release while production was ongoing.
Romulus stars Cailee Spaeny (Priscilla, the upcoming Civil War), David Jonsson (Industry, Murder is Easy), Archie Renaux (Shadow and Bone, Upgraded), Isabela Merced (Madame Web, the upcoming Superman), Spike Fearn (Aftersun, The Batman), and Aileen Wu.
Alien: Romulus will come to theaters on August 16th, 2024.
