Alien Romulus [Fede Alvarez]

pixelburp

He wot did the Evil Dead remake; as I said elsewhere my expectations for this franchise have become nonexistent, so if this is even half decent it'll be quite the achievement.

A recent rewatch of the Assembly Cut of Alien 3 made me appreciate it in a new light; a recent rewatch of ...Resurrection confirmed it was always garbage.

And coming to cinemas too, which is nice.

https://youtu.be/GTNMt84KT0k?si=EudDVI8PY99rI--A

gmisk

https://twitter.com/BDisgusting/status/1770481801833636199?t=ZY6pxD4mV7MQEUM3zyWIOw&s=19

Teaser trailer, looks interesting!

gmisk

Can delete looks like someone posted same thread at same time!

nachouser

Ah yes, the Alien / Star Trek mash-up we've all been waiting for.

Mr Crispy

Yeah, nobody should get too excited of course. But FWIW I did enjoy the teaser more than I expected to; gory scenes, some body horror, a cast of relative unknowns, claustrophobic setting, and fast as **** facehuggers.

Alvarez apparently spoke at length with both Scott and Cameron (kinda hoping he paid more attention to Cameron to be fair lol).

https://www.slashfilm.com/1544203/alien-romulus-director-james-cameron-ridley-scott-horror-continuity/

We'll see in August, I guess.

~Rebel~

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121918900#Comment_121918900

Where are you seeing the Star Trek aspects? Looks pretty straight up classic ‘Alien 1979’ to me…

Everlong1

Can't under the hate for Alien: Reurrection. It's no masterpiece but it's a decent enough film.

emo72

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121918910#Comment_121918910

There is a planet called Romulus in Star Trek.

It's a joke yah?

~Rebel~

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121918920#Comment_121918920

Ah gotcha

pixelburp

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121918920#Comment_121918920

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121918924#Comment_121918924

Not completely a joke. There was crossover comic planned but got canned.

https://screenrant.com/star-trek-vs-alien-crossover-picard-ultimate-challenge/

Mr Crispy

And of course, facehuggers do like to..... Klingon.

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pixelburp

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121918914#Comment_121918914

When's the last time you watched it? Cos it hasn't aged well and I went into a rewatch with an open mind. It's not just a bad Alien movie but just ... weird. The Joss Whedon humour really underbaked, and some odd moments like Looney Tunes gore.

Hande hoche!

Will be exciting to see the utter stupidity in some of the crew's decision making in this installment. By the time the next trailer comes out imagine we will be able to pick out the Ripley-esque heroine.

TheIrishGrover

I lost all interest in the Alien franchise and Ridley Scott when they scrapped Blomkamp's sorta-reboot in favour of Scott's pointless entry.

OrangeBadger

https://youtu.be/Tz3NpzvjbzM?si=uFBdGIyJYsHPMUkT

This is a great YouTube channel that covers the alien films/books/lor

Frank Bullitt

The trailer did what a trailer should do, get me excited.

As others have already stated, it is a good idea to keep the feet on the ground for this, but it does look promising.

johnny_ultimate

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121919235#Comment_121919235

Given Blomkamp’s post District 9 track record, I still reckon a bullet may have been dodged there.

TheIrishGrover

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121919336#Comment_121919336

Admittedly...

Bellbottoms

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121919076#Comment_121919076

Its not great, he also lifted a lot of ideas for the movie and reused them in Firefly. I am not a fan of Firefly.

El Gato De Negocios

Ya, I like the look of that. While ED remake I thought was overrated, it had some exceptional gore, gore and Aliens, yes please.

pixelburp

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121919397#Comment_121919397

I was never that much of a fan of Whedon even in his heyday, but it is weird to see this first & deeply embryonic script from him; all the tropes and tics he later used (and caused a flood of imitators, oof) are there but few of them worked. Of course they didn't work in the Alien universe either but that whole production was just weird.

ILikeBoats

I think it looks decent so far.

Remus and Romulus are twin space stations it's set on?

Bellbottoms

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121920538#Comment_121920538

When you say all the "tropes and tics he later used", are you refering to how he reused them in Firefly?

Or in general? I am getting very sick of the use of bahos in almost every movie.

ebbsy

Alien has turned out like Terminator.

First 2 films were great.

Rubbish after that.

Loads of trailers giving most of the film away.

I remember coming out of the cinema after Alien 3, biggest let down ever.

pixelburp

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121921369#Comment_121921369

Firefly yeah that's certainly the most obvious, but also things like his scriptwriting style; the undercutting tension with a joke - but not honed as well as it would become.

But the best script in the world wouldn't have survived the total inappropriate choice of Jean-Pierre Jeunet as the director.

Mr Crispy

Seems that, where possible, Alvarez has used practical effects including puppetry and animatronics. He even went so far as to re-assemble the original Stan Winston team that built and operated the Xenomorph queen in Aliens.

https://ew.com/alien-romulus-director-fede-alvarez-breaks-down-new-trailer-8611454?taid=65fb0cf3cdbb810001abd23f&utm_campaign=entertainmentweekly_entertainmentweekly&utm_content=new&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com

Bellbottoms

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121927252#Comment_121927252

Bathos, yeah. Everyone is doing it now.

I generally love Jean-Pierre Jeunet, but yes. An odd choice.

pixelburp

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121929420#Comment_121929420

My one growing concern on this movie is Alvarez cranks up the gross gore, cos his films have tended towards it; whatever else the movies at their best were they weren't that gory either. Moments of sudden violence and occasional android bifurcation sure, but rarely that kind of gazing you get either.

Mr Crispy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121933115#Comment_121933115

Yeah. About that....

https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3799658/isabela-merced-teases-one-disgusting-scene-in-fede-alvarezs-alien-romulus/

pixelburp

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121933332#Comment_121933332

Laboured sigh.

Mr Crispy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121933488#Comment_121933488

I hear you. Although the chest buster scene in the original probably elicited a similar response from audiences in the late 70s.