“May Not Be A Direct Sequel” – Alien: Romulus Producer Michael Pruss Talks Next Alien Film

As Alien Romulus continues to bring home the accolades and awards, work continues behind-the-scenes on the next entry in the Alien pantheon. Talking to ScreenRant at the Saturn Awards (where Romulus won “Best Horror Film”), one of the film’s producers Michael Pruss talked about how development continued on the next film, and that they’re entertaining concepts that aren’t direct sequels.

I am involved in the sequel with Ridley and our friends and colleagues and Fede, course. We are working on ideas for another Alien film, which may not be a direct sequel to Romulus, but it certainly is a part of the existing franchise.

At the moment we’re doing what I call “sitting around tables and drinking water.” We’re discussing ideas. Good movies take time, and I just worked on Gladiator II, and that took 25 years to conjure up a sequel. It takes a period of time to really examine ideas and understand if those ideas are worth pushing. Sometimes they are, and sometimes they aren’t, and we just have to submit to the best idea.

We are in an early phase, but we hope to really have something special to talk about as the year goes on. I promise it won’t be 25 years; it’ll be sooner than that, but I don’t have more specifics. We aren’t yet in more of a specific phase than just working with Fede and Ridley to try and come up with something great that will frankly garner the same reaction. Romulus was worth the wait, right? People loved it, they embraced it, and so it takes time to do it. But we want to give you something great.

When writer and director Fede Alvarez last updated us on the status of the sequel for Alien Romulus, he told Empire that he was excited to explore future story directions: “Wherever we go now, we can go into uncharted waters.” That’s not to say Fede was suggesting he was excited to throw away Andy and Rain. In the same article, he also hinted at their return.

“I think it’ll be so exciting to go with characters you know from this movie, to a place in the Alien franchise that we’ve never been before, and to discover things that you’ve never seen before.”

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