“Alien: Romulus 2” Aims To Film This Year

Following a very welcome $351 million worldwide haul from an $80 million budget last summer, 20th Century Studios fairly quickly greenlit a sequel to Fede Alvarez’s “Alien: Romulus”.

Last month, Alvarez offered an update on the project, saying he and co-writer Rodo Sayagues were working on the script at the time. He indicated that the new film will continue following Cailee Spaeny’s Rain and David Jonsson’s Andy characters from ‘Romulus’.

He added that he’s keen to take these two “to a place in the Alien franchise that we’ve never been before and to discover things that you’ve never seen before.” He also said he wouldn’t do it “unless we have a really good idea for it.”

Cut to this week and it seems writing has gone very well as he tells Collider that “I think the sequel is my next movie”. Asked when the ‘Romulus’ sequel might shoot, he says: “It’s a good question. I hope I can shoot it this year.”

He once again indicated that he checked off many of the things he wanted to see in an “Alien” film with ‘Romulus’ and now is happy to explore things further:

“For a sequel now, I think there’s a vast horizon in front of us for where we can go because Alien is so many things. Alien is Alien, it’s Prometheus, and everything in between. It’s such a big universe. I think now I would love to go, and the plan is to go into truly uncharted waters for the franchise.”

“Alien: Romulus” is now available for streaming on Hulu and Disney+ services.

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