With Alien: Romulus, director Fede Alvarez aimed to make one thing that neatly slotted between Alien and Aliens – returning to the unique two classics, whereas additionally liberally referencing all the things from Alien: Resurrection and Prometheus, to the beloved Alien: Isolation online game. Because of this, his movie introduced new characters and variations on the Alien mythology – however was all about capturing that legendary iconography anew.
If a Romulus sequel does occur, although, it appears Alvarez plans to go in the wrong way – taking Alien someplace extra sudden. “Rodo [Sayagues, co-writer] and I are engaged on that proper now,” the filmmaker tells Empire. “We’re enthusiastic about the place it will probably go. We’ve nearly checked all the packing containers of issues that I wish to see [in Romulus], and introduced again loads of the issues I hadn’t seen shortly. Wherever we go now, we will go into uncharted waters.” The plan, he hints, would to be comply with the exploits of Cailee Spaeny’s protagonist Rain, launched in Romulus. “I feel it’ll be so thrilling to go together with characters you realize from this film, to a spot within the Alien franchise that we’ve by no means been earlier than, and to find issues that you simply’ve by no means seen earlier than,” he says.
A direct Romulus sequel would solely come up if Alvarez finds a narrative value telling. “The error normally with sequels is to make them as a result of you may, and due to the success of Romulus, we positively could make a sequel,” he states. “However I wouldn’t do it except we’ve a extremely good thought for it, one thing that’s worthy of the title.” Our chests are positively bursting with pleasure.
Learn Empire’s full Alien: Romulus interview with Fede Alvarez – speaking the movie’s reception, its most controversial parts, and the place he’d take it subsequent – within the 28 Years Later concern, on sale Thursday 16 January. Pre-order a duplicate on-line right here. Alien: Romulus is out now on 4K, Blu-ray, DVD and digital.
