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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