We’ve seen a lot of Alien: Romulus news this week regarding the cast of the upcoming film from Fede Alvarez! And Variety is now reporting that the film will be going in front of cameras towards the end of next week on March 9th. Earlier reports had filming starting in February, but that appears to not be the case.
Variety’s article also includes the first official synopsis released for Fede Alvarez’s Alien: Romulus, but don’t expect any specific details! And while we’re all calling the film Alien: Romulus following some earlier leaks, Variety did note that the film’s title had yet to be officially announced.
While the premise for the yet-to-be-titled movie has been kept under wraps, the studio did reveal that the film 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.”
Filming on Fede Alvarez’s upcoming Alien film will start on March 9th in Budapest.
The production is taking place in Budapest, where some shooting is said to be taking place at Origo Studios in Budapest, where several notable recent sci-fi films like Blade Runner 2049, and Dune (2021) and The Martian have also been filmed.
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A heist movie approach does sound implied, even if it is reaching. I think young hoodlums would at least make sense if this is the plot.
However, that guy's audition was shit.
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If not at least some concept art or early production stills, maybe just a video of Alvarez saying something about it?
If the press release announcing the additional cast members from last week is accurate, they've been going since March 9th.
such as ferris slipping twice on the same pool of blood.
In extreme stressful situations, things like this can happen.
But that's just typical for the current internet audience. The main thing is to gossip about it and talk bad about everything.
It is also much easier to criticize than to give praise.
for me there were only 2 completely stupid situations in covenant:
1. a scientist sticks his nose straight into an unknown root and 2. oram literally lets the obviously evil david lead him to the stake.
I still like the film and find a lot more positives than bad.
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Are we even sure if the events of the movie are taking place in a spaceship or somewhere bleak like lv-426 and Fiorina F161? These options mentioned are both fine but if it's going to be earth like environment then I can only laugh.
I can try to look past everyone looking like a tiktok star if the environment and the creatures are done proper.
While it didn't come across as well in the movie itself, the last really good creature design was in Alien 3.
As much as I like Tom and Alec, the aliens in the other films were too bulky for me and the teeth were sometimes as big as horses' teeth. Ultimately, that is always the director's decision.
Covenant was better again, even if the biomechanics were missing. (this should definitely be added in another movie originally because Scott once said that the development of the creature in Covenant wasn't quite finished yet.)
Maybe David would have mated with the alien
or he might have jumped into a cauldron of black goo along with his creations, triggering the biomechanical mix...
*not the actual Nostromo.
Sounds pretty good.
I found them alittle too chest pumping and in-your-face. Hopefully they're alittle more calculated and cold, which would be a slightly interesting change from years of appearances from them in other various mediums (novels, games, comics).
Also, please, please mix up their combat gear. Please, give them a whole new modern look. Again, their appearance is old-hat. Move on from Aliens for the love of god. lol.
Could it be terrible? Sure. Am I going to wait for actual narrative details, or see some visuals (it is a visual medium after all) before I start to form an actual opinion. Definitely am.
For me, I'm glad so see some more Alien content. One hardcore line I draw is no dumb person logic making decisions like in the last two films please! I still get irrationally irritated about removing helmets in an unmarked world. Everyone deserved to eat the dirt for being so f**kin dumb.
And maybe the appearance of Colonial Marines again I hope? They are long overdue for a theatrical appearance after what, nearly 40 years? Where are my Ultimate Badasses at? Donde esta mis tough hombres at?
Well we already know Weta is doing the series, and they're the only one I'm liable to whinge about, so I'll probably be pleasantly surprised with any other developments.
Is it Filmefex studio?
This is something I'm certain on.
As a lifelong fan, some upcoming news should make a lot of people happy. But then, with the anger about everything these days, you can't make everyone happy. So who knows.
It's so hard not being able to share or show anything. The news can't come out fast enough.
I'm going to hold you to that.
There's a lot of good news on the horizon. There are reasons to be excited.
At least... I'd be shocked if that were the case. That's one of the reasons ADI was brought on AVP over SWS was because of the cost cutting measures of using the same assets that ADI had access to from A3 and AR. If a different effects studio were to use the assets of another without some agreement, the creators of the original assets would have a big problem with that, and it wouldn't be cost effective. The design concept art for the Xenos from Romulus to the series has been totally different as far as we know.
Excellent. One of my biggest fears about having two different projects simultaneously in production was having assets arbitrarily shared across different productions even when it doesn't really make sense to do so (something I've noticed a LOT of in recent Star Wars productions, with so many shows running concurrent to one another). Like AVP reusing the Resurrection Aliens despite them being designed in such a specific way where they really only make sense as a take on the creature within the context of Resurrection's narrative.
We know who the team is, just can't say at the moment. News of that will probably surface on its own before long.
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That's a good assumption.
Not sure how much you know/can say, but is it safe to assume that the Alien(s) in Romulus and the Alien(s) in Hawley's show have both been designed from scratch separately and won't be identical to one another?
I know Weta's on the show (no word if they're on Romulus or not), and a Dane Hallett Instagram post seemed to confirm that he was working on an Alien project that wasn't Hawley's show (so Romulus, I assume).
EDIT: I think it's also safe to say that, based on his recent Instagram story, Carlos Huante isn't on either of the upcoming projects.
They didn't go cheap on it. We're in for a treat.
Any news on the effects team ?
that is only partly true.
the alien franchise was a pretty big deal up until part 3. After that it has slowed down a bit because you can't ride around forever on the monster vs. human track and count on high successes at the box office.
with the predator crossing it has reached its lowest point.
At least as far as the claim is concerned.
With Prometheus, Scott wanted to take it all to a higher level.
but the fans wanted the alien back and that led to Covenant.
The box office of Covenant was actually nothing unusual for an alien film.
(still higher than predator movies for example)
Tom Woodruff once said that these films (Alien) are actually rather small and don't justify a huge budget.
Personally I think the Alien franchise still has the most interesting and best sequels/prequels to many other horror and sci fi franchises.
hence the writers was left to their own devices and the story no longer mattered as much to scott as it initially nay have. no guidance really from anyone.
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Prometheus follow up had just 2 visions, direct sequel and Covenant, both from the same director and with similar basic structure. Alien 3 had many completely different stories and different directors attached, so I wouldn't say it's the same situation. They were clearly going in direction they planned initially and then changed their mind after 2-2.5 years of development and it became what it became.
It wasn't outright negative, but it was negative enough to warrant a lower budget and Scott to rethink his plan.
Prometheus 70% in Rottentomatoes but division in public.
My comparation is only in division public. And sequels do loser fans in boxoffice in Covenant and Episode IX.
But Covenant and IX are bad films than VIII or Prometheus.
But Prometheus is polemican film in premiere but 16 years ago since Alien 4 is very long time to return fans and forgiven for Alien4 . Promethues premiere in 2000 and less boxoffice than 400 yes or yes. Alien 4 was very polemic and reviews bads. Promethers for me resucite saga Alien.
Moment premiere is important. Covenant in 2013 more boxoffice tan 250. a lot of time since 1997. But in 2017 few time since Promethues. Fox and Scott have fear reaction fot boxoffice. Says it. Covenant return Alien for fear. Prometheus 130+100 marketing = 230x2= 460. Exit moderate with reviews 70% and public division.
I fan Prometheus but is hate and love for people and Fox/Scott says it and Covenant is un intento de hacer feliz a todos. Frankestein movie .it doesn't work like prometheus 2 nor like new Alien
they've all played enough to keep going.
Halloween 2018 was celebrated as a hit, while everyone was talking about Covenant as a flop and that people are probably no longer interested in the creature alien.
It is interesting that both films had worldwide recorded almost the same . only Halloween 2018 was much cheaper in production costs, which is why the net profit was also much higher than Covenant. however, audience interest was about the same for both films.
in almost every film there is always a passage that is illogical or even stupid. say what you want, except for a few really stupid scenes, prometheus and covenant are still masterpieces.
WOM was mixed, but I wouldn't say it was outright negative. The problem is Covenant didn't look good to begin with, I was a bit concerned when the first trailer was released, so it didn't help either.
maybe i am wrong.
also someone not knowing the influence and story line of both the book version and movie version of 2001 a space odyssey and its sequel 2010 is going to have a hard time making sense of alien prometheus and covenant.
required reading and viewing as far as i am concerned.
it explains the ai gone roque and external hand in that to destroy mankind.
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Prometheus played heavily on "Ridley Scott is back doing sci-fi!", and that was enough to drive massive amounts of people to see the movie. Then people were disappointed with it, and the word of mouth was consistently negative. There were no Aliens, the characters were idiots, etc. Ridley being back wasn't necessarily a good thing.
Covenant was on the back foot from the get-go.