Fede Alvarez announced he has wrapped production on Alien: Romulus, the next installment of the sci-fi horror franchise Alien. The director announced the news on his Instragram account with a celebratory cigar.
Alien: Romulus will star Cailee Spaeny (Mare of Easttown), Isabela Merced (Rosaline), David Jonsson (Industry), Archie Renaux (Shadow and Bone), Spike Fearn (Tell Me Everything) and Aileen Wu in her feature film debut. Alvarez wrote the film with his frequent co-writer Rodo Sayagues while Alien creator Ridley Scott will produce the film alongside Michael Pruss for Scott Free Productions.
While little is known about the film, Alien: Romulus will follow a group of young people who find themselves up against the Xenomorph as opposed to the franchise’s usual collectives of scientists and soldiers. The logline for the film reads “on a distant colony, the group finds themselves in a fight for their lives with the titular alien, a creature known as a Xenomorph, whose race propagates by implanting eggs into people’s chest via little facehuggers eventually violently bursting out of the chest.”
Fans will have more to look forward from the franchise along with Alien: Romulus as it was reported a few months ago Noah Hawley’s Alien series for FX would begin production later this year with Don’t Worry Darling‘s Sydney Chandler in the lead role. More recently Marvel began publishing an ongoing comic book series and the video game Aliens: Dark Descent was released last month.
However, fans won’t get to see a reportedly fully completed Alien vs. Predator anime series developed before Disney’s acquisition of 20th Century Fox which the mega-corporation has shelved while a conclusion to Ridley Scott’s prequel trilogy, which began with Prometheus and continued in Alien: Covenant, has been uncertain for quite some time. It remains to be seen if Disney will ever release the Alien vs. Predator anime or sign off on Scott’s third Alien prequel.
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