In a recent red carpet interview with Variety for her upcoming biopic Priscilla, Alien: Romulus lead actor Cailee Spaeny has confirmed the timeframe in which the film takes place: between the original Alien and its sequel Aliens.
“It’s supposed to slot in between the first movie and the second movie,” Spaeny tells Variety’s Michaela Zee. “They brought the same team from ‘Aliens,’ the James Cameron film. The same people who built those xenomorphs actually came on and built ours. So getting to see the original design with the original people who have been working on these films for 45-plus years and has been so much of their life has been really incredible.”
Alien: Romulus star Cailee Spaeny
Spaeny makes reference to the special effects team responsible for handling the creatures returning from Aliens. She is referring to the prominent workshop Legacy Effects (Formerly Stan Winston Studio) who we can confirm were working in collaboration with Studio Gillis. Studio Gillis is the new effects workshop managed by StudioADI co-founder Alec Gillis, responsible for the effects behind previous films in the franchises such as Alien³, Alien: Resurrection, The Predator, Prey, and both AVP films.
Spaeny also commented further on returning to the sci-fi genre after her earlier role in the sequel Pacific Rim: Uprising.
“My first film was big-budget sci-fi,” Spaeny continues, referring to her role in the 2018 kaiju sequel “Pacific Rim: Uprising.” “I feel like I’m going back to that world. And I have so much fun. I like trying to do as many different things as I can. So I swapped my high heels and my beehive for spacesuits and lots of wire work. … I love watching those old ‘70s, ‘80s action sci-fi films. And I’m such a fan of that IP and Sigourney Weaver. It’s legendary to get to be a part of it.”
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"'Alien: Romulus' Star Cailee Spaeny Confirms New Entry Is Set Between the First Two Films"
https://variety.com/2023/film/news/alien-romulus-set-between-first-two-cailee-spaeny-1235810521/
According to the official statement, the series takes place before Scott's first film, so my "idea" is completely invalid anyway.
I just wanted to show how it could have been done to create a relatively plausible appearance of the aliens on Earth.
And I definitely don't want the creatures from A4, AVP, AVP-R again, that's why I said "old school".
Maybe they have a good idea to implement it, but I'm very afraid that they're not sticking to the canon with the series or that the series could somehow be counted as part of it.
Nobody wants to see the creatures in the fourth movie, so they don't want to make a sequel to that.
https://screenrant.com/alien-5-movie-plan-cancellation-neill-blomkamp-details/
Sidesteps not only the fourth but even the third movie, but includes new creatures, new groups of people (like the fourth movie), etc.
I think the movie will be set between the first two movies:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien:_Romulus
According to one source (and I think it's authorized, together with others, by the franchise holders), the special orders emerged from the events that took place during the prequels:
https://avp.fandom.com/wiki/Special_Order_937
I forgot to add that the idea of reboots and retcons appears to be emerging, and started with the prequels. The possible reason is that most expected viewers are young and have never heard of or seen the first four movies, which means production design, screenplay, casting, etc., will be inspired by the prequels, in turn inspired by the Marvelization of the industry.
That reminds me of plans for the fifth movie that might have bypassed the third and fourth:
https://screenrant.com/alien-5-movie-plan-cancellation-neill-blomkamp-details/
And that's also the reason why I'm a bit worried about the series.
If the things are on Earth and the story takes place before the Ripley Story, then I'd like to know how they are going to explain it sensibly.
At the moment I'm assuming that they ignore the plot of the films and that would be a no go for me.
just take the events from A4.
and continues the tradition of survivors from the previous film dying. The Auriga had a crash, but a few alien eggs can be recovered.
Ripley has now died because the alien and human genes have collapsed or alternatively: she is shot by company soldiers with the words: "It would have been better if you had stayed dead!".
Jonah, Fries and Call have run away and can no longer be found.
and now we have the beasts on earth...
(and please make the design old school again)
I think on a special of the Bluray version of Covenant, Weyland Yutani is in contact with David and the Special Order could have emerged from his reports
Similarly, we're not certain what happened at the end of the Isolation game. It's as if there's an effective coverup at the end of each story, such that it appears that most don't know what's going on except for a few within the company. I wonder if the same thing will happen for this feature.
There was something in a story with a direct descendant of hers. It's like the fourth part of Jaws.
That's why I don't count these stories in novels, comics and games as canon and I hope that Romulus has a good story without Ripley.
The roleplaying game is full of them.
On the one hand, I try to find out next to nothing about it and just enjoy it completely fresh in the cinema...
On the other hand, I'm an insatiable fan and it's actually not possible to escape it.
A hyper sleeping cabin would perhaps be quite good, which could then be opened again on the day of publication
We will all find out in the coming months. The patience will be worth it I think! Before we know it, we'll be drowning in marketing for the film. It'll be a fun ride.
From what I remember, that was one suggestion given by readers of one sci-fi magazine after the first movie came out for the sequel: Ripley is rescued by personnel in a space station, and the creature survives and enters one of the shafts with a malfunctioning hatch or something like that.
Exactly what I'm saying. They've got lots going on behind the scenes. While they're not ran by all the same people and different teams, it's all one IP. They all likely are talking.
https://twitter.com/steveasbell/status/1595510390460497920
Im starting to wonder if the film is going to be some kind of loose adaptation of Isolation. No Amanda Ripley, but the same sort of scenario. Someone is facehugged and that person is taken to the space station for treatment. Hilarity ensues.
He's definitely spoken about his Isolation love, but there's stuff in this that I wonder influenced him. I've not poured over every interview with him, so he may have mentioned he did. I still don't know where that's going until I play more, so I could be way off base.
It's felt like he's pulled from all directions in the franchise, and picked what works best.
It's not like this movie is an exact copy of anything we've had though either, sounds standalone while in the Alien universe. Much like how I've wanted Star Wars content deliver, but personally feel like they haven't touched on. Now it's all connected and I feel less and less when something new comes. Could be wrong, but I'm not feeling that with Alien here.
Maybe we'll even see Burke as a young boy, listening in on the whole conversation so we can see where his ambitions took root.
You got me in my words for sure. That's my dyslexia ADHD whatever speaking. Made sense in my head when typing lol. But definitely doesn't now lmao. My curse of not being able to articulate myself well.
But anyways. I'm excited to see what plays out, while still equally cautious if it throwing off established timelines. I'm quite surprised where it's going though, and how they managed to fit this in. For now, it feels like it makes sense. But I definitely could be wrong once we get the full picture. I've tried to make a point to not give anything away besides confirming timeline and how some of the effects may look.
Pick one my dude.
Like I said, sometimes the less said the better. If you don't know, your cryptic half notes are only fueling speculation and making things worse.
It has to because it's supposed to be set between the first and second movies. How would it affect the events that take place in the second movie? Or will it act like the Isolation game, or that novel where Ripley's lifeboat is discovered by other ships before the second movie; i.e., like standalone stories inserted between the movies?
It's similar to the prequels affecting the events taking place in the first movie, if not the second, given points in another thread that prior to Ripley's rescue from the lifeboat the company didn't know and didn't care about such organisms. But the prequels reveal otherwise:
https://screenrant.com/prometheus-covenant-alien-prequels-retcon-story-origins/#prometheus-suggests-wayland-yutani-sent-the-crew-of-the-nostromo-to-lv-426
Yep, that's exactly why I expect that.
That's not a scoop that's just the average these days.
Stop with the trolling lol
It's already hard to be here and see people talk with secret emotes and codes regarding whatever scoop they have, so then when we had trolling into the mix, little old me starts to left out
Nope.
I'm expecting to see the trailer closer to spring. That's not a confirmation, just my guess.
I can see a second trailer being released on Alien day, but the first teaser will probably be released way sooner.
Covenant's first teaser was released on Decemberm while the threathrical release was on May, so there was a 5-6 month difference, so i doubt Romulus will be that much shorter.