With Sony’s “Madame Web” due out in cinemas tomorrow, the cast has been doing the press rounds promoting the new Spiderman universe film. One such cast member is Isabela Merced, one of the actors from Fede Alvarez’s upcoming Alien: Romulus! Though Merced didn’t dish the specifics, in a new article with The Hollywood Reporter she talked about a “disgusting” scene that made all her cast members look away!
Merced is also starring alongside Cailee Spaeny in Fede Álvarez’s upcoming Alien: Romulus, which takes place between Ridley Scott’s Alien (1979) and James Cameron’s Aliens (1986). During a recent round of reshoots, Merced and some nearby cast/crew got to watch a significant chunk of the film on Álvarez’s iPad, and one scene in particular prompted everyone but Merced to look away in horror.
“There’s a scene that I’m in, and they all had to turn away. Not one person stayed looking at that iPad because it was so disgusting,” Merced reveals. “And I was watching it like this … (Merced pretends to hold an iPad with a mesmerized look on her face.) I was so excited.”
The article also points out that Alien: Romulus is currently undergoing reshoots. Fede Alvarez reported that he’d finished an assembly of Alien: Romulus in October last year and that after showing it to Sir Ridley Scott, that the Romulus director was “terrified” about Ridley’s response.
“And then he walks into the room and he did say “Fede, what can I say? It’s fucking great.” For me it was like…ahhh…My family knows it was one of the best moments of my life to have a master like him, which I admired so much, to even watch a movie I made but particularly something like this…and talk to me for an hour about what he liked about it.“
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Unfortunately I don't have an answer for most of this.
Things like music from movies are copyrighted, so it would make sense that it's not able to be used. If they were used in the fan films for the 40th anniversary, those are technically officially made by the studio. The fans were hired to make them via winning a contest to make the films. So in that sense, they are official fan films, more than just fan films. Therefore they'd be able to use official music and sounds, as they were likely provided by Fox. I'm not sure if that answers some of the question.
At this point, I think an official documentary like Charles de Lauzirika is out of the question. Even speaking to him about that topic at the premiere for PREY in 2022 he said he hadn't been asked for future installments and doesn't have as much interest anymore.
On the other hand, fans could easily make those things if we get the approval and okay to say what we know. I'd love to make a video talking about everything I know one day, and am trying to make that a possibility, but can't make any promises or give any timelines.
True a good amount of what motivated Ridley to do prequels was explore the back story of the Space Jockey, he didn't seem to have a very defined idea of what that entailed (other than they were explorers and used Alien eggs as weapons) so Jon Spaihts came up with the addition of humanoid Engineers in order to humanise them an to tie their storyline to humanity's history and creation. Not sure if the Ridley directed Cameron written Alien 5 was going to be a sequel continuation or prequel. Somewhere Mike's Monsters spoke that what detail he was privy to with Blomkamps project he expressed would have ruined the series, Alien saga survived the divisive Alien3 which hated a first buts garnered a cult following, the trash to some entertaining to others Alien Resurrection, the critically panned yet guilty pleasure Alien vs Predator films, the polarising Prequels whose creative choices though bold did minimised the scope of the universe. To what degree how much a disaster Blomkamp's movie could have been Mike's Monsters can't elaborate until perhaps some years from now, the initial concept art for that idea dated from March 2014 so that's about 10 years ago. I doubt Blomkamp would participate I'd imagined they'd make a documentary on the whole Alien movie that nearly was but didn't happen.
As far back as things go, Ridley's interest in returning to the series had always involved looking more at "the guy in the chair." What that exactly meant obviously changed and mutated over time, eventually evolving into what we got in Prometheus (which was then was further redefined during the development of Alien: Covenant).
Ridley has always seemed to have a certain degree of aversion towards Alien as a franchise and what it grew into over the years (though he seems to be fond of Cameron's Aliens as a film, if not necessarily the concept of the Queen), but I think that his desire to go back in time with Prometheus was more so just a result of where his particular interests lied than it really was a response to his aversion to those latter films. If he wanted to steamroll over Alien 3 and Alien: Resurrection to do his own thing later on in the timeline, I don't think Fox would have stopped him (they were willing to play along with Blomkamp on that path for long enough before pulling the rug out from underneath him). I believe the Scott-directed, Cameron-written "Alien 5" that was snuffed out when Alien vs Predator came along would have dealt with the Space Jockey in some capacity as well.
We do know that there will be some form of prequel acknowledgement in Romulus, and according to this, Fede did consult with James Cameron in some capacity, so I wouldn't be shocked if there's some element at play here that functions as a bit of connective tissue to Aliens.
Could also be that one source is dealing with outdated information, and some facts have changed. Who knows!?! Other than Mike, of course.
Decades after, that is less likely to bring him back. Although not impossible.
Also wouldn't Chap be completely frozen anyways ?
I guess a search of the area where the Nostromo blew up could still happen some time later, rather than immediately after Alien.
Or perhaps everything being speculated on could potentially be way off the mark if what Hicks posted winds up being true (in which case, nobody tell 4chan).
Earlier intel I have put some decades between Alien and Romulus. Perhaps that's changed. But that's just talking strictly timeline.
But how do we know Mike isn't planting a Mike to cause a ruckus?
I mean, it wasn't mediocre. Everything affects everyone differently. Some people will find it super nasty, some won't be phased. Example from 1979 with the Chestburster scene.
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Some of us will be the guy in the back smiling, some of us would be flinching. Every single person has different taste. Some us here will think it was awesome, and others, possibly not.
But you'll have to wait and see that instead of making assumptions because the cast is young. They don't feel like teenagers who'd be dancing on TikTok in this movie at all. They felt like young adults who've live in a futuristic world and deal with that life they live.
I doubt a trailer will help dispel this really stupid discourse about the cast being young, but people are still complaining about Naru from PREY taking down a Predator years later. So I don't see that lame discussion going away.
Maybe for you summer child.
And btw, when SIR Scott is pleased, I am worried.
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If the Big Chap doesn't look at the screen and gives a shoutout to Nightmare Asylum, then Hollywood is finished.
Tell me about it.
It's too late bro.
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Don't you have Dune: Part Two spoilers to read?
That was Alien Covenant's exact budget.