We’ve known for quite some time that Fede Alvarez’s upcoming Alien film was in production under the working title Alien: Romulus, but it’s now known that the film will also be releasing under that title. During Disney’s first quarterly earnings call (via Deadline), CEO Bob Iger confirmed the final title and re-iterated that Alien: Romulus would be releasing theatrically on the 16th of August 2024!
20th Century Studios’ Alien reboot movie from Fede Alvarez is now known as Alien: Romulus. Here is pic’s blurb: Young people from a distant world must face the most terrifying life form in the universe. The movie is still set for Aug. 16 this year and stars Priscilla’s Cailee Spaeny, Isabela Merced, Aileen Wu, Spike Fearn, David Jonsson and Archie Renaux. The new feature creature from outer space movie is not connected to the FX series that Noah Hawley is behind.
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On #AlienDay 2023 director Fede Alvarez shared this picture from the set of Alien: Romulus.
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Update 09/02/2024: Disney’s Q1’24 Earnings Presentation has been uploaded the worldwide web and Alien: Romulus’ logo can also be found on Slide 8 with Disney’s upcoming release slate. Much like Alien: Covenant also did, Romulus returns to the original Alien type-face.
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Probably because of the picture though but who knows.
The sacs underside appear to be more in the mold of this that this.
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With the tendon like detailing present on them.
Also appears to be a specific new detail on the back of the tail, can not say what exactly it is though.
And no fingernails.
Something "on" the tail on the far-right side?
edit Are there "barbs" on the tail as well (in the shadow)?
No one has.
Yep.
Spoiler
This situation is discussed numerously without being shown in previous films. This time you could show it and it would sill be a never seen before scene.
Technically, no need for barbs indeed. But eh, I like the extra nastyness anyways so
So many gnarly options.
According to the W-Y Report, the facehugger sent a chemical shock through his body.
see Suicide Squad (2021)
This is personally my favorite theory. This is something we haven't seen in any "Alien" film. Every thing else was about chest bursting, head puncturing, etcetera. This will be the film's signature scene. Its main attraction. Yes, the facehugger is already terrifying as it is, but adding the extra "Barbed wire" will definitely bring a new level of fear for our little critter friend.
Technically we've never seen the situation before (the holding on to something) so it wouldn't break canon. I guess my issue with the barbs being used as some kind of you can't get me off "thing" is that it would suggest there's no is she is she not impregnated tense part of the movie. It would be quite clear that somebody has something going on with .....they face
Unless the hugger needs it for bigger prey, perhaps the Alien gets born from a bigger animal we've not seen. Maybe the barbs are what shoot the acid to eat through the helmets?
If it's for humans then yeah, I agree, it's probably in there just for the gore factor.
I pointed them out for a reason. Because they are indeed there, lol.
Good catch on it being on the Queen Facehugger. That's a detail I'd never noticed. From what I've seen, I am fairly certain these barbs are on every finger of these new Facehugger designs instead of just the front two on the Queen Facehugger.
The barbs are not for impregnation - they are for getting the Facehugger from A to B.
How are they in any way similar?
gonna make for a cool scene probably
know what was a "bit much"?
Remember Cameron's Aliens and the arm blades?
but still nobody cried about those and they looked cool so... whatever.
storm in a teacup.
If you say so, I get the vibe of otherwise in three.
Seconded.
But make no mistake, what Mike's Monsters posted got me excited, but it's hard for me to really think about Alien: Romulus at the moment, when i´ve just been thinking (and obssessing) about how much of a cinematic masterpiece Dune Part 2 was.
I know that a lot of people are throwing around, "cinematic masterpiece" for Dune Part 2, but damn, that movie was such a special event.
Denis Villeneuve is the man.
👀👉👈
Right
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May thy knife chip and shatter.
But I do see Fede going that route for a gruesome scene. If the changes and new features are minor like these, I won't have too much of a problem with it.
I do like the old way where the host wasn't marked and with the amnesia could wonder around for some time, be rescued and picked up and unknowingly spread the Alien. But that hasn't been upheld for some time now, long before Covenant and AvP even.
Too busy being obssessed with Dune Part 2.
He said something a few posts ago!
It's so hard not saying anything, but knowing I'd seen those barbs, I had to point them out to everyone since they were right in front of our eyes. I'm still not gonna give anything away that would spoil plot details or anything.
Voice over ' And now witness the new Facehugger with brutal bladed fingers '
Some gormless kid 'Woah !'
Like his Evil Dead film.
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They cut it in the first movie and it didn't let go. It didn't even flinch.
Again, this is already the case without barbs. The face hugger tears Kane's scalp when they try to take it off in the first movie, that's why they try to cut it. Dallas says you can't take it off without taking his face off with it.
What if people tried to drop a bucket of water (or another liquid) in order to make the facehugger "slippier" or tried to burn it with a lighter in order for it to have a quick let go response.
The barbed wire makes it so that the victim has absolutely no chance of getting out of this situation once it has been facehugged.
Either it gets chestbursted in the near future or it will have his face ripped off and potentially die from its wounds.
If anything, Xenos are the opposite of mean-spirited - they're acting on a biological imperative, doing what they're meant to.
Now, as for their designers, well...
Being mean Spirited???!!!!
good heavens.
Imagine that.
First movie also shows the facehugger can secrete acid so that's another line of defense.
I guess my issue is, if they wanted to make face-hugging nastier, there are so many things already in place that we've never seen in action they could've gone with. Finger spikes is just kind of dumb.