Alien: Romulus, Fede Alvarez explains how the film is inspired by a deleted scene from Aliens – final battle

Alien: Romulus, Fede Alvarez explains how the film is inspired by a deleted scene from Aliens – final battle | Cinema

It will hit theaters next August Alien: Romulusthe film by Fede Alvarez (The House, the 2013 “sequel”) connected to the famous franchise inaugurated by AlienRidley Scott’s 1979 masterpiece.

The feature film, chronologically based between the events of the first film and those of James Cameron’s Aliens, was inspired, according to Alvarez’s words, by a deleted scene from the legendary sequel directed by the director of Avatar.

Life in space colonies

The filmmaker explains:

My first instinct was to try something different that hadn’t been seen before, which was to approach it from the perspective of characters who aren’t professionals or scientists and who aren’t even adults. I liked this concept of putting people at the center of the story who are closer to what the audience who comes to see the film is, not meaning that the audience is only made up of young people, but rather that the audience is completely virgin to reality of space. When the characters are professionals in a given field they know more than you. But when they are still in their 20s, they still don’t know how to handle pressurized exhaust hatches.

Then he adds:

All of their parents probably worked on the same ship when they were children, and that’s how they met. They share this story because that is the only family they have. They act more like adopted siblings; some of them even lived under the same roof. A lot of the big themes in the film are about brotherhood and what does that mean? The Romulus of it all, and the larger Weyland-Yutani entanglement, is actually connected to this as well.

Alvarez references a deleted scene from Aliens (and present in the special edition home video) in which we see, among other things, moments of life lived at Hadley’s Hope, the Weyland-Yutani colony on LV-426.

Alien: Romulus, synopsis and details

This horror-thriller brings the hugely successful franchise back to its roots Alien: While scavenging in the depths of an abandoned space station, a group of young space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe.

The cast includes: Cailee Spaeny (Priscilla), Isabela Merced (The Last of Us), Spike Fearn (Aftersun) David Jonsson (Agatha Christie’s Murder is Easy), Archie Renaux (Darkness and bones) and Aileen Wu. Alien: Romulus is directed by Fede Alvarez (The House, Man in the Dark) based on a screenplay written by himself together with his collaborator Rodo Sayagues (The man in the dark – Man in the Dark), and is based on the characters created by Dan O’Bannon and Ronald Shusett. The film is produced by Ridley Scott (Napoleon), who directed the original Alien and produced and directed the new films of the saga, Prometheus And Alien: CovenantMichael Pruss (The Boston Strangler) and Walter Hill (Alien); while Fede Alvarez, Elizabeth Cantillon (Charlie’s Angels), Brent O’Connor (Bullet Train) and Tom Moran (Unstoppable – Out of control) are the executive producers.