The next Alien movie, subtitled Romulus, is supposed to be a return to basics: take a bunch of clueless humans, set them in an abandoned space station infected by murderous creatures, and as they say, let nature take its course. A teaser was released earlier this year, but this is the first real look we’ve gotten at the picture.
Alien: Rolumus stars Caliee Spaney, who plays the only character whose name has been released (“Rain Carradine”). Wherever she lives, implied to be some kind of metropolis in space, she’s not happy there. She decides a better life would be that of a space explorer, and that’s how we get from there to the unresponsive spaceship that she and her team are investigating. As this is all being established in the trailer, you keep hearing this “splatch” noise…and we won’t spoil what’s making it, but we were pleased with the answer.
The teaser focused a lot more on the Facehuggers than the full-grown Xenomorphs. The trailer does the same — you’ll see a lot of spider-squid things leaping around and trying to force themselves down people’s throats. The poster even focuses on the Facehugger as it settles into its new home:
Director Fede Álvarez says the entire film was inspired by a scene from the Director’s Cut of Aliens, where some kids are shown early in the picture running around the halls of the newly colonized LV-426. “I thought, ‘Wow, what would it be like for those kids to grow up in a colony that still needs another 50 years to terraform? There’s no sunlight and there’s no real life, except to just take the place of a parent and do the same job they did.’” he told THR.
“So when I saw those kids, I remember thinking, ‘If I ever tell a story in that world, I would definitely be interested in those kids when they reach their early 20s, and what they want to do and where they want to go,’” he continued. “And when it comes to having them encounter the creature, the dynamics are completely different. So that might be the reason why we managed to make it. When Ridley read it, he felt that it was completely different than the other movies.”
Alien: Romulus will be released August 16.
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