"May Not Be A Direct Sequel" - Romulus Producer Michael Pruss Talks Sequel

[Neila]

Both with reservations butI like Prometheus and Covenant.
I still find the theories in the RPG pretty interesting, even though I know that the film canon doesn't take this into account.

And the film canon is more important to me than the secondary media.
Even though it certainly wasn't resolved optimally, at least so far it hasn't been the case that a film has been completely ignored.

That's also the reason why I would like to see David again, whether in a short version or as a focused storyline.
There's no guarantee that it will be good or bad in the end anyway, whether with or without a Covenant reference.

[Nightmare Asylum]

I like Prometheus, warts and all.

I love Covenant, unabashedly.

[TheBeastISCooked]

The Alien is, quite simply, boring and uninteresting.

There is no menace, no mystery.

Monsters are not scary anymore. We have evolved beyond that mode of fear!

Humanity is the only REAL monster left.

Look at the most successful horror films. They are not about something SILLY like a big dumb strange CREATURE!

The Wolf Man just FLOPPED, PEOPLE!

The monster movie is DEAD!

For this franchise to survive it must embrace David's story as a reflection of THE ALIENNESS OF MAN!

Fox must heed MY WARNINGS!

[CANNON]

I like Prometheus, warts and all.

I love Covenant, unabashedly.

I'm with you although I do love Prometheus - Something about that movie always resonated with me.

[Seegson]

I like Prometheus. I hate Covenant.

 Is not just crew doing amazing stupid things, its they way it obliterates all the interesting stuff of prometheus.
Killed the engineers, and showed them living in some kind of ancient primitive city (75% of the film location is a wet cave??). No suits, no interesting tech etc...just ancient sumerian kinf of stuff.
And all the "Dr Moreau Island" thing is so off with the alien lore...

And that little alien with his arms waving..."Offcourse evil android, i was about to kill you, but sure i will look at that menacing alien egg becouse you tell me".

I cant...so many things.

[SM]

City didn't look more or less primitive than the temples on LV-223 with their 'finger in the groove' control panels and squishy buttons.

[Acidforblood75]

I didn't watch Covenant because Prometheus was such a bore fest but recently after enjoying Romulus I decided to give Covenant a go and I enjoyed it far more than I thought I would.

I've said it many times but I don't have any issues with David creating an offshoot of the xenomorph i just hate the idea he created the xenomorph race. I think there is enough evidence to suggest he didn't.

A sequel to Romulus that ties in with Covenant could work. Rain and Andy meeting David could be cool if handled right. I think it could be.

I also agree with a post about a sequel post Alien 3 focusing on other characters in the galaxy. No reason why we can't have two additional movies.

As a side note The Wolfman is a terrible movie, it's not that monster movies are dead it's this was a terrible film. Romulus proved that there is still life in the genre yet.

[Nightmare Asylum]

Yeah, Wolf Man being bad and floundering really has no bearing on all of the (pretty radically varied) array of monster movies that were successes in 2024 alone: Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, Alien: Romulus, Nosferatu, etc.

It should probably also be noted that one of the biggest complaints leveled at Wolf Man has to do with how minimally it bothered actually engaging with the fact that it is werewolf movie. It likely would have done better if it was more of a monster movie.

Bring on Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein. Bring on Predator: Badlands. Bring on the Godzilla: Minus One followup. Bring on Werwulf. I always yearn for a good creature feature, in any shape or form that it may take.

[Citixeno]

I didn't watch Covenant because Prometheus was such a bore fest but recently after enjoying Romulus I decided to give Covenant a go and I enjoyed it far more than I thought I would.

I've said it many times but I don't have any issues with David creating an offshoot of the xenomorph i just hate the idea he created the xenomorph race. I think there is enough evidence to suggest he didn't.

A sequel to Romulus that ties in with Covenant could work. Rain and Andy meeting David could be cool if handled right. I think it could be.

I also agree with a post about a sequel post Alien 3 focusing on other characters in the galaxy. No reason why we can't have two additional movies.

As a side note The Wolfman is a terrible movie, it's not that monster movies are dead it's this was a terrible film. Romulus proved that there is still life in the genre yet.

My headcanon is that David merely recreated the alien. Will other movies or licensed alien media uphold that or contradict that going forward? Probably yes to both. The producers, directors, and writers kind of make it up as they go along. If something doesn't work for their story, it will simply be ignored.

There is more life in the genre; at least, I am still interested. Why would any of us be here otherwise? Here, we tend to focus on things like canon, but most of the creative process is about crafting characters and making the audience care about what is happening in the story, keeping the right pacing, how to show what is happening without relying on info dumping dialogue, and so on.

Overall, I liked Romulus, and the main thing I didn't care for was the reusing of iconic lines. I don't really mind if the next story doesn't directly include Rain or Andy. To me the alien is the star.

[Acidforblood75]

The alien should always be the star of the genre, not a synthetic like david or Andy or even Rain. It's the xeno and what's connected to it, ie egg, chestburster, facehugger etc. Having good human characters is important but ultimately it's all about the alien...

What alien isolation did and romulus did to a point is make the alien scary again. They both made us fear the xeno as we did back in 1979. A sequel to romulus or covenant needs to create the fear factor again. That may not be so easy though...

[SM]

The stars of Isolation and Romulus were Amanda, Rain and Andy.

[BlueMarsalis79]

The star of Isolation's the Alien, that's what people remember.

Not that I do not like the narrative, I really really do.

[SM]

Thinking about it more  - yeah that's probably fair.

[Local Trouble]

How much different would Isolation be if this had been the protagonist instead of Amanda?

Marian Kearney

Occupation: Senior Claims Investigator, Locke Risk Management (Weyland-Yutani's Primary Insurance Underwriter)
ICC Certification: Licensed Corporate Investigator (Liability & Salvage Disputes)
Age: Late 30s – Early 40s

Background

Marian Kearney didn't take a desk job because she loved paperwork—she took it because it meant no more hypersleep. She started her career working salvage contracts on corporate tugs, crawling through derelicts, sorting cargo inventories, and spending months frozen between assignments. The money was decent, but the cryotube wore her down. The stiffness, the disorientation, the way life kept moving while she was stuck in stasis—until one day, she woke up and found out her daughter was already gone.

A freak accident. Hit by a car while Marian was light-years away, sleeping in a corporate-issued coffin. By the time she got back, it was too late. No one's fault. No one to blame. Just bad luck.

That was the moment she walked away from deep-space salvage work.

She pivoted into corporate insurance investigations—stable, planetside work with no long-haul trips, no hypersleep, no risk of waking up to find everything had changed again. Over the years, she built a reputation as a sharp, relentless claims investigator. She was officious, cynical, and difficult to shake off a case—not because she cared about justice, but because she knew the game. She could navigate corporate loopholes, grill executives until they cracked, and file reports so ironclad that even Weyland-Yutani's lawyers had trouble poking holes in them.

She wasn't a crusader. Just thorough. And damn good at her job.

She also carried an ICC Investigator's License, granting her legal authority to conduct corporate insurance investigations under interstellar commerce law. It gave her access to facilities and records that most corporate employees couldn't touch—but it didn't make her important. It just meant she was the one sent in when a case needed to be wrapped up quietly.

The Assignment: Sevastopol Station

The Nostromo case was long closed. When the ship was declared lost over a decade ago, Locke Risk Management paid Weyland-Yutani a massive settlement—a "42 million in adjusted dollars" kind of settlement. But now, suddenly, the flight recorder has resurfaced on Sevastopol Station.

And Weyland-Yutani is contesting the original claim.

If the Nostromo wasn't truly lost—if recoverable assets remained or the original claim was misfiled—Weyland-Yutani could demand a reassessment and potentially claim millions more in restitution. Locke Risk Management, naturally, wants to shut that down.

But there's a problem.

The flight recorder is an ICC-certified black box, meaning it should be tamper-proof—but only a physical examination can verify that. Transmitting the data remotely wouldn't be enough. The insurance company needs someone on-site to:

• Physically inspect the hardware to ensure it hasn't been altered.
• Verify the encryption seals against ICC records.
• Confirm that Weyland-Yutani isn't trying to pull a fast one before any legal proceedings begin.

So Marian is assigned the job.

Not because she's special—because she's available. And because she's been around long enough to know how to handle corporate disputes like this. She hates that she has to go all the way to Sevastopol for what should be a routine claim verification. Worse, it means hypersleep. Again.

"I took this damn job to avoid cryotubes."

Her ICC credentials give her official access to the station, and Seegson Corporation (who owns Sevastopol) begrudgingly grants her temporary clearance to conduct her work. She assumes it'll be a boring, bureaucratic headache—maybe some frustrating negotiations, maybe some stonewalling from Weyland-Yutani. Nothing she hasn't dealt with before.

Then she arrives at Sevastopol.

And everything is already falling apart.

[solace97]

Ok I'm listening