Sequel Update: Fede Alvarez Wants To Try Something New With Alien Romulus Sequel

[Mike’s Monsters]

New article:

https://www.empireonline.com/movies/news/alien-romulus-sequel-fede-alvarez-uncharted-waters-exclusive/

[Nightmare Asylum]

With Alien: Romulus, director Fede Alvarez aimed to make something that neatly slotted between Alien and Aliens – returning to the original two classics, while also liberally referencing everything from Alien: Resurrection and Prometheus, to the beloved Alien: Isolation video game. As a result, his film brought new characters and variations on the Alien mythology – but was all about capturing that legendary iconography anew.

If a Romulus sequel does happen, though, it seems Alvarez plans to go in the opposite direction – taking Alien somewhere more unexpected. "Rodo [Sayagues, co-writer] and I are working on that right now," the filmmaker tells Empire. "We're excited about where it can go. We've almost checked all of the boxes of things that I want to see [in Romulus], and brought back a lot of the things I hadn't seen in a while. Wherever we go now, we can go into uncharted waters." The plan, he hints, would to be follow the exploits of Cailee Spaeny's protagonist Rain, introduced in Romulus. "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," he says.

Good, good. I'm excited to see what he has up his sleeve, especially with the more blatant references out of his system now.

I still think an intermingling of Romulus' characters and Covenant's dangling threads has potential, too (Rain still has the vials, and David could have easily intercepted Rook or Rain's messages before Weyland-Yutani retrieved them...).

[skhellter]

Time for Rain and Andy to get caught
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THE UPP

Time to put Davidovitch in the movies.

[TheBATMAN]

All well and good, but any sequel with Rain and Andy is gonna take place before Aliens, so where are they gonna come from this time?

Even if they brought David back, its still a hell of a time jump to explain with any logic.

[Nightmare Asylum]

Rain and Andy doesn't necessarily mean pre-Aliens (probably will be though).

[SiL]

In a bold creative move, Rain and Andy drift through space for longer than expected, waking up in a time strange and disorienting to them.

[Nightmare Asylum]

The similarities to Aliens in concept there are exactly why I think this should be set pre-Aliens.

As for where the Aliens come from... Rain is still carrying around vials of pathogen. There's an infinite number of possibilities that could arise from that alone, and that's before you even factor in that David could be lurking out there or any number of other options.

[SiL]

The similarities to Aliens in concept there are exactly why I think this should be set pre-Aliens.

I'm not following the logic. Whether it's set before or after seems fairly moot at this point.

[wasabinator]

I can see the intro sequence now, with the queen being picked up in space. Also, as an extra nod to fans, the power loader is also recovered along with Bishops lower half which has become self aware after all that time alone in space.

[SiL]

Literally talking out its arse.

[NoStyleDutch]

I like the idea of seeings new things and "uncharted waters" so let's see what happens lol

[BigDaddyJohn]

I don't trust him anymore. I wonder why...

[SM]

Isn't "things you've never seen before" a bit out of his wheelhouse?

[Nightmare Asylum]

The similarities to Aliens in concept there are exactly why I think this should be set pre-Aliens.

I'm not following the logic. Whether it's set before or after seems fairly moot at this point.

I meant more in terms of the idea of replicating the beat of someone waking up decades into the future in a time that's moved past them.

I'd rather see it set closer to Romulus, rather than something far off in the future, post-Aliens, so as to not totally do the 57 years beat again with these characters.

[Michael Dean]

Loved the movie, I'd like to experience new scenarios and new creatures. They actually have to do something different to keep it interesting. For the people here I could do some concept art of ideas of where the series could go...if AVP G is cool with that???