At a recent screening of Alien Romulus hosted by the folk at Collider, Alien Romulus writer & director Fede Alvarez was asked about his return to the Alien franchise and confirmed he was already writing the script with the hope to begin filming this year!
When asked about his return to the universe of the Xenomorphs, the Evil Dead helmer teased that another Alien project was just around the corner, revealing that he is already “writing it.” And, if there were worries about where the title would fall on Álvarez’s directing schedule, he assuaged the fears of fans by telling them, “I think the sequel is my next movie.” As for when cameras might pick up on the feature, Álvarez continued, “It’s a good question. I hope I can shoot it this year,” before turning to Macarin and Barbra to ask, “If you guys are available. [Laughs]”
Fede went on to discuss how he had been focused on enjoying the reception to Romulus and now that he was working on the new film, he re-iterated previous comments about moving away from the familiar elements from Alien and Aliens that Romulus revisited, and heading “into uncharted waters.”
“For the last couple of months, I’ve been trying not to think about anything, just enjoying the fact that the movie did well, and now we’ve got some love in this award season, so I’ve been trying to think about that. But obviously, with the studio, we love the idea of making a sequel for this. So, most likely. We have a path, an idea that I’m really excited about for the continuation to really push the saga.
I think with this movie, we kind of check the boxes of all the things that I want to see, and that’s my bet that if I want to see it as a fan, some of you will agree with me and want to see the same things that I want to see. So this was done because there were many things I wanted to bring back and I wanted to see again. For a sequel now, I think there’s a vast horizon in front of us for where we can go because Alien is so many things. Alien is Alien, it’s Prometheus, and everything in between. It’s such a big universe. I think now I would love to go, and the plan is to go into truly uncharted waters for the franchise.”
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Covenant has a few callbacks, but they're well-executed and work well in context. Katherine Waterston's "I got you, you son of a bitch!" is the absolute standout - I nearly always punch the air when she says it.
Actually, hold the "nearly".
The most flagrant exemple of this being done before is Jeunet's Resurrection. But Cameron's Aliens and Fincher's Alien 3 also qualifies perfectly.
I think the things you suggested there constitute as something new.
Agreed, it's good to lean into what exists and what's established keeping the continuity and atmosphere but you need to develop your own tone.
I left out too many words on that first post, probably because I had an old fashioned before bed but essentially I'm talking about the queen captivated, egg harvesting, and lex teaming up with scar (taking place inside the pyramids even though the pyramids have nothing to do with the OG comic - in my mind it summarized it easier probably shoulda just left it out for confusion )
Explicitly bringing up the pyramids (twice) is what's confusing me because they're not from the comic.
With more time to reflect I guess he might mean the captive queen and egg processing stuff tbh.
That would be like Aliens Fireteam Elite-The Movie.
Such a scenario would certainly quickly become tiring as a film because it would no longer have any moments of tension to offer.
I agree with this, that's exactly how I felt about it. Other than a couple token scenes the film overall for me didn't do a good enough job showing us exactly why these aliens are so dangerous.
it's easy
What?
I disapprove.
But I expect a little more tension and threat from the creatures at this point in the film.
I can accept it if they use this method to switch off a few of the xenos,
However, one can expect a little resistance from the supposedly perfect organism or at least an attempt to find another way to the victim.
In Aliens this worked quite well when the beasts bypassed the sentry guns.
Here it seems a bit like a section in a video game.
so still,
I'm a fan of Romulus, but it's a fairground attraction.
The movie sets up that the lone Xenos may not attack those that are aiming their weapons at them, so Rain lures them all, making them think that they are going to overwhelm her with their numbers, but then she turns off the gravity, has Andy hold her in place with his superhuman strength and then she uses the aimbot to dispatch the incoming wave of Xenos that can't quickly rush her because of the zero-G.
It's not like she was running around and going guns blazing against the hive.
yes, that's what he said.
I argued with SiL about this in an older thread but I have to admit now
that this scene is really damaging to the film.
while the marines in Aliens, despite their firepower being decimated quite quickly, it is no problem for Rain and Andy to get the creatures out of the way.
It still looks fantastic, but it's not exciting and the aliens don't pose any real threat, which would have been more important than just looking good.
I still love Romulus for the brilliant visuals, but when you boil it down to its essence the film is just a illusion, a facade.
like a sex bomb posted up in a magazine, really nice to look at but not to be taken particularly seriously.
But yeah idk
Anderson tried it with AvP. I don't think it really worked with the constant cutting away to the Aliens and Predators though.
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True that's a very good point. If they were to bring back the CMs and go that route they really would have to make it unique to that story structurally and develop something that really distinguishes itself from Aliens.
I agree here, I think it's better to avoid it within this franchise, atleast for a while - with that being said, a similar format that introduces CM or some sort of special forces unit could work with an AvP remake.
I honestly think the franchise needs to go in the exact opposite direction to that.
Plus, non-stop Colonial Marines vs. Xeno action was never what Aliens was about in the first place.
I'm really keen for a nightmare fuelled Ridley Scott sequel with David and Daniels as well.
There was a lot more heavy nostalgia than Ash/ Rook.
Initial rumors pointed to that fundamental difference
Rook was supposed to be a woman, then she was made ash
Fede says that there was no intention for rook to be anyone but Ash
But I don't buy it
How do you figure that?
Prometheus was held by the novelty of being an alien prequel, one cannot ignore how hard into it the marketing leaned
One of the most iconic trailers of the 2010s is basically the alien siren blaring
People bailed when it wasn't alien, and downright were ready to leave the franchise for good if they continued with the direction covenant hinted at
Romulus wasn't meant to be nearly as nostalgia heavy as it ended up being and wouldn't have been if covenant was well-liked
Didn't say Prometheus was a failure, abundance of reviews mixed to positive, and was a big office success, though it was divisive.