‘Alien: Romulus’ Filmmaker Fede Alvarez’s “Third World” Inspiration For Origins Sci-Fi Pic – Crew Call Podcast
deadline.comOne would think after Ridley Scott’s planned prequel of Alien petered out with 2017’s Alien: Covenant, there’d be no where left in space for the final woman standing franchise to go.
However, Don’t Breathe horror-meister Fede Alvarez has proven with Alien: Romulus, opening this coming weekend, that many can still hear you scream in space.
Similar to how Tony Gilroy expanded upon the early roots of Star Wars with Andor and Rogue One, Alvarez thrusts us into a deeper dive of a future proletariat society’s inner workings and how spaceship laborers are pawns in a world where a faceless ‘man’ is poisoning them with science.
More specifically, somebody is hatching this virus, err aliens which are devouring humans. But beyond story, Alvarez has some jaw-dropping visuals we’ve never seen before in previous Alien movies — including architect Scott’s.
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