[Spoilers] Alien: Romulus Footage Debuted At CinemaCon!

As CinemaCon wraps up the third day of the convention, Walt Disney Studios took to the stage to show off footage from many of its upcoming films and as expected, they finally showed off footage from Fede Alverez’s Alien: Romulus. While the footage itself is not available online, descriptions of the footage (via Discussing Film) have been shared by the outlets in attendance. Beware spoilers!

The majority of their crew is stuck in a flooded room with water up to their knees. What they don’t realize is that they are in the middle of an incubation room of sorts with dozens of alien pods holding facehuggers above them. The crew’s android, Andy (David Jonsson), needs to power down and reboot because of an error. While he’s in the middle of rebooting, standing frozen still, the alien pods activate and release the facehuggers into the water. The crew is then all attacked by a horde of facehuggers, some using their tails to drown people and others leaping straight out of nowhere.

The crew is managing to survive since they’re skilled enough to swipe the facehuggers away with their guns and help each other out whenever one of them goes down. The majority of the facehuggers are noticeably brought to life through practical puppetry, giving the scene a tangible sense of urgency. The android Andy finishes his reboot and helps the team escape, grabbing some of the facehuggers with his bare hands to pry them away from people’s faces. Cailee Spaeny’s character manages to open one of the room’s sliding doors from outside, but only for a limited time. We then see an image of dozens upon dozens of facehuggers leaping out at the crew from a claustrophobic hallway as everyone is running for their lives toward the only exit.

The sliding door closes and everyone makes it out just in time, with the horde of facehuggers smashing against the glass from the other side. However, the only crew member who takes a brief moment to look back is suddenly attacked by the single facehugger who barely made it through the closing doors. We then flash forward to a different scene where this same crew member is about to have an alien burst from her chest. She starts feeling pain while she and one of the other female crewmates are piloting a small ship. When the pain becomes too excruciating, she takes an x-ray flashlight of sorts to check her body and we see a clear visual of a small chestburster trying to break its way out of her ribcage.

When the chestburster starts to make its way through her chest, she falls to the floor which prompts her co-pilot to fall to the ground to try and her. The ship they’re on starts flying in uncontrolled circles as the small chestburster slowly begins to break its way through the crew member’s body. The footage ends with a montage of other moments from the film, including our first look at the full body of an adult xenomorph, which looks like an actor in a practical suit more than an animatronic.

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According to a lot of the reporting, this footage was a demonstration of the practical effects we’ll be seeing in use in Alien: Romulus. Discussing Film notes that:

The small alien is brought to life via puppetry, with it coming out super slow and giving the audience enough time to notice the small details in its design. It’s an incredible visual that makes Alien: Romulus feel more in line with the first Alien trilogy than the recent prequels.

The reaction to the footage on Twitter has been largely positive, with Collider’s Steve Weintraub describing the footage as “brutal and scary and exactly what I wanted.“

The original Alien is heading back into cinemas for Alien Day, alongside a “special sneak peak” of Alien: Romulus which we expect will be this footage shown at CinemaCon. So far we’re only seeing booking for the US, but the original announcement does make it sound like this isn’t limited to just screenings on Alien Day.

A special 45th anniversary screening of one of the most acclaimed and iconic sci-fi films of all time in a 4K Digital Restoration.

Also includes a special sneak peak extended clip of the new film ALIEN: ROMULUS (releasing in August).

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