DIGITAL SPY – There’s good news for fans of Fede Álvarez’s Alien: Romulus, as the writer-director is spitballing ideas for a possible direct sequel.
While a follow-up to Romulus hasn’t been greenlit just yet, Álvarez confirmed he and his writing partner, screenwriter Rodo Sayagues, are testing the waters on another movie following Cailee Spaeny’s character Rain.
“Rodo and I are working on that right now,” the filmmaker told Empire.
“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.”
Speaking about potentially focusing on Rain, introduced in Romulus, Álvarez said: “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.”
Released in August 2024, Alien: Romulus is set between the events of 1979’s Alien and its first sequel Aliens, released in 1986.
The movie, which just landed on Disney+ today (January 15), features some of Álvarez’s signature gore whilst honouring the mythology of Ridley Scott’s original.
Romulus also tweaked one of its most controversial CGI inclusions for its home entertainment release.
In the version out in cinemas, late Alien star Ian Holm – who died in 2020 – appears as a dismembered science officer named Rook. The cameo left some moviegoers puzzled by the heavy CGI involved, though Álvarez has assured the home video version sheds some of the computer-generated technology to revert to an animatronic of Holm.
“[Animatronic puppeteer] Shane Mahan actually did this animatronic of Ian Holm based on a head cast from Lord of the Rings, and that was the only one in existence,” the director said. “What we did [for the home entertainment version] was revert a lot more to the puppet. It’s way better.”
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