With just over two weeks until its theatrical release, Alien: Romulus has unveiled a terrifying new sneak peek, courtesy of 20th Century Studios. Alongside this preview, we’ve got more than half a dozen exclusive posters from exhibitors and ticketing partners, and they’re among the best we’ve seen this year!
At the San Diego Comic-Con this past weekend, director Fede Álvarez spoke to Deadline (via SFFGazette.com) and revealed whether Alien: Romulus will connect to Noah Hawley’s upcoming Alien: Earth FX TV series.
“They were doing the show already when we started writing, and there’s such different timelines that there was no way to connect them, even if you wanted,” the filmmaker explained. “This is such a standalone story that happened so much later than their story, as far as I know,” he said. “I don’t know all the details of the show, but I can’t wait to watch it. Noah Hawley is a genius.”
Álvarez added, “I think Hollywood is entering a [place], for good, that is going back to something that got lost this last decade that I’ve been making movies, which is the desire to find new movies, as well — unbranded, non-IP things that you can really go into.”
The news that Alien: Romulus won’t link up with Noah Hawley’s series isn’t necessarily bad. It means we get a standalone movie without forced connections to previous stories, something many argue Ridley Scott’s prequels struggled with.
Check out the new TV spot and posters for Alien: Romulus below.
The sci-fi/horror-thriller takes the phenomenally successful Alien franchise back to its roots: While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe.
The film stars Cailee Spaeny (Priscilla), David Jonsson (Agatha Christie’s Murder is Easy), Archie Renaux (Shadow and Bone), Isabela Merced (The Last of Us), Spike Fearn (Aftersun), Aileen Wu. Fede Alvarez (Evil Dead) directs from a screenplay he wrote with frequent collaborator Rodo Sayagues (Don’t Breathe 2) based on characters created by Dan O’Bannon and Ronald Shusett.
Alien: Romulus is produced by Ridley Scott (Napoleon), who directed the original Alien and produced and directed the series’ entries Prometheus and Alien: Covenant, Michael Pruss (Boston Strangler), and Walter Hill (Alien), with Fede Alvarez, Elizabeth Cantillon (Charlie’s Angels), Brent O’Connor (Bullet Train), and Tom Moran (Unstoppable) serving as executive producers.
The movie is set to arrive in theatres on August 16.
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