Mesmerizing Making Of Featurette for Fede Alvarez’s ‘Alien: Romulus’

Mesmerizing Making Of Featurette for Fede Alvarez’s ‘Alien: Romulus’

by Alex Billington
July 11, 2024
Source: YouTube

“We built every creature for real.” 20th Century Studios has debuted a behind-the-scenes featurette for the upcoming Alien: Romulus sci-fi horror movie. Produced by Ridley Scott, and directed by the Uruguayan horror mastermind Fede Alvarez, this is taking the franchise back to its roots with one crew on one ship. Set between the events of Alien (1979) and Aliens (1986), this follow a group of young people on a derelict space station, who end up in a confrontation with the most terrifying life form in the universe. Starring Cailee Spaeny, Isabela Merced, David Jonsson, Archie Renaux, Spike Fearn, & Aileen Wu. Fede says it’s similar to both of the original movies – with the scariness of Alien and the thrills of Aliens. This featurette video has a few thrilling making of glimpses, and a few quotes from the filmmakers talking about building real sets & xenomorphs. There’s also a longer interview with Fede & Ridley included below as well. Just over a month to go until Alien: Romulus drops into theaters worldwide. How is it looking? Still excited for this?

Here’s the full official trailer (+ new poster) for Fede Alvarez’s Alien: Romulus, direct from YouTube:

You can rewatch the teaser trailer for Fede Alvarez’s Alien: Romulus right here, or the main trailer here.

The highly anticipated sci-fi / horror-thriller takes the phenomenally successful Alien franchise back to its roots: While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe. Alien: Romulus, the seventh movie in the Alien franchise, is directed by acclaimed Uruguayan genre filmmaker Fede Álvarez, director of the movies Evil Dead (2013), Don’t Breathe, and The Girl in the Spider’s Web previously, plus directing on the “Calls” series and many other short films. The screenplay is written by Fede Álvarez and Rodo Sayagues. Based on the characters created by Dan O’Bannon and Ronald Shusett. Produced by Ridley Scott and Michael Pruss for Scott Free Productions and 20th Century Studios. Disney / 20th Century will release Alvarez’s Alien: Romulus in theaters worldwide starting August 16th, 2024 later this summer. Who’s ready for this one?

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