It will be released in August Alien: Romulusa film directed by Uruguayan Fede Álvarez, being the seventh installment of the xenomorph franchise.
In conversation with Empire, the director not only highlighted that the film will be set between the events of Alien, the eighth passenger (1979) and Aliens (1986), but will also combine elements of those first two films that were directed by Ridley Scott and James Cameron.
“Asking an ‘Alien’ fan to choose between them is a wicked question,” the director said. “So I thought, ‘How do I do both?’” Álvarez explained, suggesting that the combination will occur in several aspects, especially regarding the story and the rhythm.
That will also be reflected in the designs, since Álvarez designed the Renaissance Stationwhich is where the events of Alien Romuluslike a bridge that is based both on the Nostromo of Alien like the Hadley’s Hope human colony of Aliens.
“There’s a moment where the characters walk through areas familiar to the Nostromo, then cross through that building and on the other side: boom! You are in a hallway that looks like Hadley’s Hope”, remarked the director.
The new film follows a group of young space colonists who discover a terrifying life form on an abandoned space station. At the center of it all is the central relationship between Rain (Cailee Spaeny) and her android Andy (David Jonsson), which obviously evokes Ripley’s dynamics with Ash and Bishop, the androids seen in Alien and Aliens.
Alien Romulus will be released on August 16 in the United States, seeking a renaissance for the franchise that has not had films since the reviled second part of Alien vs Predator.
