The field workplace success of Alien: Romulus final 12 months has given the franchise a contemporary dose of latest life, and director Fede Alvarez is at present laborious at work on cracking a sequel.
Talking with Empire On-line this week, Alvarez supplies an replace on Alien: Romulus 2. “Rodo [Sayagues] and I are engaged on that proper now,” Alvarez tells Empire.
“We’re enthusiastic about the place it might go. We’ve virtually checked all the packing containers of issues that I wish to see [in Romulus], and introduced again numerous the issues I hadn’t seen shortly. Wherever we go now, we will go into uncharted waters,” Alvarez continues.
As twentieth Century Studios head Steve Asbell famous final 12 months, a sequel to Alien: Romulus would seemingly observe the characters performed by Cailee Spaeny and David Jonsson in Alien: Romulus, who survived the harrowing occasions of final 12 months’s film. Spaeny’s heroine Rain Carradine is actually the Ripley of Alien: Romulus whereas Jonsson’s Andy is her android brother.
“I believe it’ll be so thrilling to go along with characters you recognize 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,” Alvarez additional teases in his chat with Empire On-line.
“The error often 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,” the filmmaker additionally notes. “However I wouldn’t do it until we now have a extremely good concept for it, one thing that’s worthy of the title.”
In different phrases, a sequel to Romulus from Fede Alvarez isn’t 100% assured, however he’s laborious at work making an attempt to make it occur. Keep tuned for extra on all issues Alien as we study it.
Within the meantime, Disney brings the franchise to the small display with “Alien: Earth” this 12 months. Final we heard, the primary ever Alien tv collection is coming to FX & Hulu in Summer season 2025.
‘Alien: Romulus’
