Having enjoyed a hugely success opening weekend, raking in $108.2 million worldwide, talk of a sequel to Alien: Romulus is only natural! Discussing the possibility of following up on the rest of Rain and Andy’s journey, Fede Alvarez told The Hollywood Reporter when asked if he had a pitch ready to go tomorrow:
Yes, I definitely can. We tend to do that naturally, not even thinking about sequels. For us, movies have not become franchises, tentpoles and sequels. This is a language that I’ve only learned in the last ten years of my life working here. For me, it’s always been about story. So, once we finished, we started thinking, “What do you think happens when or if they get to Yvaga? Is it going to be great? Or is it a terrible place?” We tend to believe it’s probably a terrible place that they think is great and fantasize about, so we naturally started thinking about where it goes and what’s going to happen. And then, a few minutes in, we go, “Oh, that sounds like a sequel.”
But we really try to think about it more in terms of story and if it needs another chapter and whether people want to know what happens next. So we’ll wait to see what people think and if people ask for it. My philosophy is that you should never make [a sequel] in two years. You’ve got to get away. You’ve got to get the audience to really want it. If you think about Alien and Aliens, there’s seven years between them. But we definitely have ideas about where it should go.
Fede Alvarez also talks about audience reactions, Andy’s backstory, pushing against elements the studio considered “too much” and the character of Rook. It’s an interesting interview and well worth checking out!
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As of now, we know that Rain still has some of the Z-01 compound with her and that The Company expected it to be back at the Jackson's Star colony, so it's probably better to build up off of that.
And that's all I got.
No please, LV-223 and 16EG14 are still just sitting there with the Pathogen and Aliens ripe for exploitation if we must return to something from a prior film.
We also have this ... it was shown that Big Chap survived his trip in space (cocoon) so there's no reason to believe the Queen did not survive her ejection into space. So there's potential for a (standalone) sequel with that as well.
With the recent talks between Scott and Fede about them wanting to combine two movies into one, I could very well see this happening and I'm all up for it. Let's not forget that Alien Romulus rejuvenated the interest of people in the Alien franchise the same way Prey did for Predator.
I know, that's what I'm saying. This scene didn't deliver enough, and not only according to me. Plus Merced said in interviews she liked gore stuff, so I think it's understandable to expect more of this scene considering she doesn't seem that sensitive about it.
On the prequels note that I said succeeded.
That's an absolutely crazy nuts things to say when the first 3 films exist. Hell even the prequels. They are not all perfect but they are jampacked with new ideas and creative thinking. The first film is one of the most groundbreaking pieces of art ever. It changed film history.
With a combined 8 minutes of screen time between the last 2 movies and being yeeted to pieces in both, I'm kinda ready to see Xenomorphs in long form presence again.
I respectfully disagree.
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It wasn't until Season 1 of "Andor" that a Star Wars project involving the medium of film truly succeeded in doing something outside the box.
I think that the vaginal birth was suposed to be THAT scene.
When Isabela gave that interview, i doubt that she was thinking about the sensibilities and expectations of the Alien fandom, but more of the general audience, so no real promises were made and if they were, it all depends on what people individually/personally find disgusting.
And by all means, the 3rd act seems to have caused an impact and a lot of buzz on social media, so i can see arguments being made that the disgusting scene found its audience (new or old) to terrify.
People will always complain no matter what, might as well go for it and deliver what was promised aka the famous hard to watch disgusting scene... And by the way I totally dig the horrific aspect of the pregnant woman scene in AVPR.
AvPRequiem showed a pregnant woman and her unborn child be bellybursted by three and four Xenos and people felt that it was too much.
I wouldn't be opposed to see an extended and "uncensored" version of it, but at the end of the day, i like what we got and how it is implied (through the foreshadowing of the painting too) the breastfeeding.
We had a breasfeeding monster (born from a vaginal birth) and the most biomechanical Xeno since the first one, so Romulus was one of the most Gigeresque movies in the franchise.
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if any of Fede's film team scrolls through these posts, I'll second on going full on Giger biomechanoid with not only the creatures but the world David is in if that's the path they're going in to bridge the Prequels with the present timeline...Fede pull elements from Dune Part 2's Giede Prime's infrared world with the Giger aesthetics I'm there at the IMAX in opening night.
Going this path allows Fede to engorge on some twisted Giger-inspired biomechanical body horror. And I would bet my ass that engorge he will, with Disney footing a $90+ million production budget bill no less!
Well, good news!; Even if Fede directs the follow-up to Covenant, Scott's behind the scenes controlling everything anyway according to people who are pushing the narrative that the things that didn't work within Romulus were Scott's ideas - (I'm looking at you, Perfect Organism Podcast!)
I'm really liking what I'm reading!! That being said, I'd rather the next movie be the "big finale", instead of 2 or 3 movies from now. That way, those who aren't interested in the prequels will hopefully not be kept away.
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That being said, if we do get a proper Alien: Covenant followup, I'd prefer it to be helmed by Scott.
So do you want handsome robot in charge ?
No!
That plus the Alien stuff he already ties into reduces everything from being a systemic issue, into one man behind it all, which I absolutely despise.
Your posts f**king rock bro. Every time I just imagine David coming out of the darkness to say some cryptic shit and then disappearing into the night. f**king kills me.
I'm not sure I'd call it a hot streak, or call The Last Duel a masterpiece. It was an ok film burdened by its storytelling approach. You had three perspectives, and every time they switched between them you had parts of the story that had to be retold or gone over. It was taking from better films like Rashomon. The multiple perspective approach to a story. Gladiator 2 seems big and grand and all that, but I just see it as spectacle instead of a story. There really isn't much of a need to tell a story that goes beyond Maximus, but apparently Scott felt differently.
To be honest, I also co-sign this. Have David over the last twenty to thirty years between Covenant and Romulus be playing with Weyland and sending them bits and pieces of his discoveries and experiments, and like some have mentioned have Rain and Andy come under grief and reach a planet were David is. However, they don't know who he is and David repairs Andy. From there Rain and Andy are charmed by him and the world he's created but slowly begin to realize who he truly is especially when they see the vats of the pathogen they encounter on the Romulus. Then, hell ensues and Rain and Andy need to destroy David and escape the planet.
The Counselor is a cult movie.
Is his new Blade Runner.
Controversial, somewhat transgressive
Noir aesthetic
Existentialist, poetic, raw, dirty
The public went to see a commercial film with a star cast and found a film that was difficult to see and evaluate at its premiere.
Scott's bravest and riskiest film since the 80s.
Gladiator II looks fantastic so far, and seems poised to very likely be Scott's biggest mainstream hit in ages.
🤮 lol. Of course he has. And that tracks with how he's behaved in the last twenty years when it comes to filmmaking. Playing fast and loose with history, opting for things that scream Hollywood tropes and stereotypes, completely pivoting from his stances when the audience rejects something he does. Like it or not, he's been a sellout for the last third of his career. Nothing he does seems to come from a place of integrity or ingenuity anymore. You can compare that to the guy who directed Alien and Blade Runner and they might as well be two different people. Obviously Alien is a younger director's franchise because you gotta get hands on with it a little. He'd rather add everything in post these days...ugh.