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Alien: Romulus sequel will show things that have never been seen in the franchise before

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Fede Álvarez is developing the Alien: Romulus sequel, which he says will take the franchise into uncharted waters

Speaking with Empire, Álvarez confirmed that he and Sayagues are working on the script for the Alien: Romulus sequel. He said, “We’re excited about where it can go. We’ve almost checked all of the boxes of things that I want to see [in Romulus], and brought back a lot of the things I hadn’t seen in a while. Wherever we go now, we can go into uncharted waters. I think it’ll be so exciting to go with characters you know from this movie, to a place in the Alien franchise that we’ve never been before, and to discover things that you’ve never seen before.”

So he's got the Easter Egg references out of his system then hopefully? Come on, a decent Alien film please! 🙂

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Alien franchise that we’ve never been before, and to discover things that you’ve never seen before.

this just smacks of writing a film by devising a bunch of action sequences and reveals then smushing it together hoping that the big shinny sequences distract from the plot and characters being wafer thin cardboard cutouts like last time.

Its terrible writing to work like this, cobbling together a script around predefined points. Its typical of film writing by committee where everybody on the committee has to add in their idea they came up with independent of the script to demonstrate their value.
It's ducks and you can't convince me otherwise.
People actually side stepping a giant, rolling object instead of continuing to run from it down the path it's rolling?
Yeah generally sequels show new things in them
Full penetration.
- And then the franchise sort of....ends.
I just hope the next movie isn't a bunch of kids again. No offense to the 20-something-year-old readers here, but having a variety of age groups is an important part of the diversity in a movie, and something which the franchise has been better with in the past.
Somehow, Ripley returned…
- I really really really hope not. Butttt, IIRC Romulus happens between Alien and Aliens.
  
  I don't think you have to worry about it. Sigourney Weaver has a career very separate from Alien these days.
White goo instead of black goo.

And yes, it will be semen -- also something never seen before in an Alien film.
- Aren't the androids filled with white goo?
  
  Ok, true. Damn.
  
  But is it semen?
A good script?
- Romulus was pretty good. Until it turned into a braindead marvel movie full of certified fan moments.
- 3 was so fucking close
  
  Out of the first 4 movies, 3 was the worst.
  
  That's a bold move Cotton. Let's see if it pays off.
  
  You mean the worst movie in the franchise?
Titties?
- Big juicy alien tiddies
Studio executive: let's do alien cats! Yeah, no one will be expecting that! What about alien cows? I'm on a roll here! Alien dwarves!

Dunno man. I get the best kicks out of arcs that explore the evil mankind is capable of, but the movies seem to keep chucking large amounts of cgi and jump scares. It's like they don't care about the source material at all. Now it's all about scientist or goofy kinds on a jaunt in space, make goofy decision, discover or release alien spawn, firefight, running, showpiece shot, etc
- Alien: The Musical
  
  already been done

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