Isn't it so refreshing to hear a director talking about his respect for lore and the fans and none of this "we made this to piss off alot of people" nonsense?. Which is only said to cover up bad writing imo
@@ChanceX74 i know but i wanna believe that the movie is good hope that the good reviewers (youtubers) confirm that before i buy my ticket i will not spend money without prof of that
I personally loved Prometheus/Covenant. I didn’t care that they killed or atleast didn’t show what happened to Shaw. I want to see Scott’s ideas further explored. Wish the studio would let him make more.
We're here now 2024 with a new Alien movie.Im glad there is a Prometheus and Covenant jus for the lore.Got to see Wheyland and the Space Jockey.And 3 different Xenomorphs
Personally I liked Prometheus, despite some the flaws, and was really onboard for what was being teased and set up, but I did feel Alien Covenant was a wrong turn and killing Shaw was a big mistake!
She may not be human, remember the black guy is a synthetic, she may also be a synthetic, his sister. Aliens act differently around non human lifeforms.
@@jasoncruizer huh. I hadn't heard or considered that. I don't know I feel like that would blow the entire narrative up in a bad way. Danger for the main character, oh wait never mind. I don't think that's it but, maybe it is.
@@FatherFigure-itout maybe they all die, there would have been a survivor or incident (i.e.) Ripley case where Weyland Yutani was involved and covered it up.
Facts!! They haven't done that since "Aliens" bring the Marines back! They can be reintroduced if they did another prequel to Aliens=Hadley's Hope! They had a security team fighting against the Aliens
I was encouraged by the trailer but I'm still worried about the DEI cast and the obvious discount Ripley role...yet again. I still don't get the blue light, is there canon for it? I always thought it was space jockey tech, as we don't ever see it any other time there's eggs. I'm hopeful though.
I’m looking forward to the scene where the Alien hive (cannon) start chanting to the Queen (cannon) “The Power of one… the power of two… the Power of maaaaaanyyyyy”
@@LMacca97 really? Do you work for Disney? I know all about the production issues with alien three. Let's talk about alien resurrection and the campy shit show that movie was even considering the French director of that movie was already a respected director in his own right. Ridley Scott fucked up his own prequels to alien. Let's be real honest about this, there are only two good alien movies and we all know what they are. The rest are uneven in quality. There's good stuff along side just embarrassing bad stuff in the rest of them.
@BobJenkins-ez1jl Settle down sunshine. Fede isn't just the director, he also wrote the film. He's been on the project from the very start, he isn't jumping onto a sinking ship like Fincher. There's been no news to suggest a troubled production. Disney are too busy making Star Wars gay and lame.
This might be a reach but I think he may have pretty much said yeppp... We're showing the growth process of the Xenomorph in the film... ( Regards to some of his quote in that article... )
There is barely a canon in Aliens universe. Some people view the first movie alone as canon some view the first two and ignore third and fourth. Some accept Prometheus and Covenant along with everything else. Some people accept Colonial marines game as canon where as others ignore it. We like to hear something is being done according to canon but what does that mean exactly?
I'm not going that far, lol. I think the right story, in the right hands, in this universe, could be FANTASTIC. And I used to think Sir Ridley HAD to be the guy. Prometheus was a nice try, but it never went anywhere with the true horror, and the android origins were just CRAP. So, I LOVE what Fede is saying and doing so far, and I am VERY confident this one is going to be the best one since the original. A true sci fi horror movie that is worthy of being in this universe. But...IF it is not, you can bet I will still be there for the TV show, for the next one, the next one, and the next. I saw the original IN THE THEATER in 1979 after begging my mum for MONTHS to take this little kid to his first "R' rated movie, and she did, with a group of friends for my birthday. And THAT hatched a love with this franchise that has NEVER ceased. I LOVE it. I LOVE Giger. It is an amazing amalgam of art, science, and grotesque. I'll never give up. I'm a true Alien fan. True Fans aren't "wishy-washy" and come and go with the tide. True fans are there for each and every thing and evaluate each and every release in said universe on its own merits, not to give up. Casuals do not. So you either are a fan, or you aren't, and that's all there is to it.
@@thegood9 I am looking forward to this movie. I was very skeptical when I first heard but everything I have seen has made me very optimistic about this.
Same. After the abortion that was Covenant (just piss off Ridley), I SWORE I'd never see another Alien film at the cinema. I'm going against my own word here to see this one, so it BETTER BE friggin GREAT!!
Understandable. I won't be rushing to the theatre to see this but I will watch it eventually. I'm afraid we've already seen the best parts in the trailers.
Something I picked up on. . . When Walter is alerted that the solar flare is damaging the ship, we see moments before , Walter's filling up a specimen container .... once he is alerted , he sets it down on the floor before he heads to where he goes... never to be seen or talked about again.... or will it ?? ... ?? Your thoughts on this?
Holy crap look what happens when you hire an actual fan to work on your franchise! The odds of making a good product greatly improve. What a novel concept!
I don't really understand what is meant by alien covenant not respecting the Canon. The Canon was created by ridley Scott together with H R giger and Shushett and o banon ,the original writers of alien . The derelict, space jockey, face hugger , xenomorph all their ideas . There was no suggesting in the original alien of an alien planet . That was the concept created by dark horse comics with their Canon based off the original movie . And we do see in the romulus official trailer what appears to be someone holding Vials of the black goo which most likely are directly linked to prometheus and Covenant. Is that a wrong interpretation?
@@21stcenturyhiphop that's what I said the original script was written by O bannon and Shusset . And it was the latter who came up with the fact hugger concept literally saying the way to get the alien on board the ship was to have a creature basically rape someone, which we now know is the face hugger. Walter hill and giler rewrote their script and added the ash android character
@@sebraven O'Bannon's script is actually more comparable to Prometheus than the original Alien. It bears no resemblance to the Giler/Hill version, except for a general structure.
This is why having your own headcanon is best when it comes to Aliens. Otherwise as a viewer you would be shooting yourself on the foot because something somewhere will definitely not add up with the rest of the other stories
im a huge fan of the Evil Dead series so while I wasnt into his take on the newer ED movie I respect his style of filmaking and he obviously has a love for and understands atmosphere and tone when it comes to horror and his love of creature effects makes him a good pick for this. I hope it turns out well
Well it pissed a lot of people off by killing off shaw ... even though they didn't get her and had to figure it out... the idiotic decision to go out without any breathing apparatus, not exploring the crashed Direlect , like at all other than 5 min. ,,,,, not helping the girl who was stuck in the room with the back burster .. shooting everything to only blow up the escape ship... or only ship ..... why spend big bucks to have dude from Spiderman in it only to be killed off before he ever showed up on screen... (though he was brought up on charges then) still not having xenomorphs in it ... or better yet, no tie in to Alien which was the point of "prequels" and just sooo many more things ... but it's all but a memory now 😂
All sounds promising, and it's so refreshing to hear of Creatives who actually give a damn about the lore of the universe they are adding to. How sad that last sentence is: that it's "refreshing" rather than the norm.
I cannot wait for August, I absolutely have to see this film! I rarely get excited for a movie but for Alien I make an exception. I've been let down by the last few movies i was pumped for like Antlers and Alien Covenant. I still liked both of those films but they were not what I expected or as good as I had hoped they would be.
@@leonpruden7079 Yes they are definitely younger than other Alien films, but it has a story explanation behind it and tbh, I see that as a plus, bunch of pretty unknown actors at least doesn´t break immersion and this movie could really kickstart their carrer if it does well.
Taking this with a grain of salt. I remember the Mortal Kombat director from a couple of years ago said he would respect the canon from the original film, and the movie sucked.
@beanbag9696 in which the movie greatly strayed from the source material for no reason. The guy straight up lied. Do I think Fede is lying? No. But it's worth noting that it wouldn't be the first time unfortunately.
Dear Sir, if one reads the same articles but with another more concerned intonation, these articles would be sounding like “I apologies, I tried my best, but it did not work out, so before you go to cinemas, I wanted to explain myself”
Lets clear the air here about the Xeno incubation times. In ALIENS, when Ripley goes off on the Marines she says and i quote, "Just 1 one of these things managed to wipe out my entire crew in less than 24 hours" which implies that from the time Kane got facehugged to the time she blew Big Chap out the air lock, it had only been 1 day. If we take ALL the Canon across all the movies involving Xenos.... Compared to OG ALIEN, AVP and Covenant were sped up for sure..... but..... If we take into account what Fede says about DNA differences, then every time a Queen comes forth and spawns a new hive, across god knows how many years that Xenos have been around... Every hives incubation cycle across generations, DNA, and time, would potentially change how fast the facehugger implants and dies, how fast the chestburster developes and kills host, and finally how fast it would molt into its adult form. Just food for thought if all that i said makes sense to anyone.
I agree 👍 . It can also involve the species that becomes the hosts for these things. In the dog (the theatrical version of Alien 3), the development looked fairly quick and the chestburster looked larger. Maybe in species like a dog that are born or grow quicker, the gestation period is quicker.
@DarkLadyAthena1 that is also true in general ALIEN lore. Different species = different gestational times. Look at how much longer it took the PredAlien to burst out compared to a human grown in AVP!
@@charlesvernon5450 Well, Weaver said about the stripping scene, "After five days of blood and guts, and fear, and sweat and urine, do you think Ripley wouldn’t take off her clothes?" I reckon Cameron just made up the 24 hours bit without really thinking about continuity.
Just remember folks, lots of people have said that "this project isn't going to be a piece of shit like the others" with horrible results. Just free yourselves of expectations and watch the movie. Then you can give an informed opinion afterwards. Until then, all videos and coverage means NOTHING.
Oh, are they offering everyone a free viewing of the movie so we can all have an informed opinion BEFORE putting money down? That's great news! I'm so sick of their standard marketing tactic, where they make a deliberately bad movie, and show you it's bad in the trailers, yet also have the gall to tell you to give them money before you make any judgement, and even after you do give them money you're STILL called toxic if you dare to utter a single gripe.
Prometheus and Alien: Covenant were pretentious?? That is the last word I would have expected to hear to describe them. Ridley Scott wanted the series to go a bit deeper. I thought they were very well done. Especially with Fassbender playing David. So menacing and glitched. Oh well, mob rule. People just want monsters without the imagination that made them so horrifying in the first place. =/
Alien covenant got studios meddling, that movie supposed to be shaw with David going to engineer planet and make havoc there. Sadly it became montage and Shaw died......
Nice on the Kenner action figures. I have the NECA of Scorpion, Gorilla, Rhino, Prey Mantis, and Snake. Maybe you should do a review on them one of these days and other Alien collectables.
Would love if they explained how the hell the chestburster grows from cat size into a three meter really heavy giant with serious bone density. That takes sustenance and a intake of physical mass. Is it gnawing on the ship's/station's structural beams, or is it raiding the pantry?
Well from what I read into it Alvarez does not want to go down the Rabit Hole of WHERE the Xenomorph came from and so he will likely be doing nothing to either Prove or Disprove what Alien Covenant had shown. He wants to just focus on the Xenomorph and yes as these are likely Obtained from DNA/Goo they will have some minor differences to Alien and Alien Covenant. Its interesting that he said that the Chest Burster Cycle would be more like ALIEN..... which implies that the Crew are stranded on the Station for a while... or the Chest Burster happens at a latter point than we may assume
As a fan of alien besides the movies, like comics etc i was actually incredibly exited about getting movies that were different and explored lore more. Im gonna like Romulus im sure but i genuinely like when movie franchises make bold movies from time to time instead of just reskining the same vibes over n over.
course hes respecting the Canon. It looks like he totally copied and pasted Alien. I already know who is the main character and who will survive or die within a second of viewing. I already know the monster and all the mystery behind it.
Canon according to IP owners also mean the events of the Colonial Marines game occurred nd Hicks survived. It also means the events of Resurrection will come to pass. I would much more prefer at this point that they get the tone right over anything else.
This is very good news - it's also a good example of what all filmmakers/showrunners should be doing, when they end up working in an existing franchise. This, 'we didn't want the writers to know any of the lore' crap needs to stop. Do I think, sometimes, folks can offer a fresh perspective on something? Yeah, we should have that. But if it directly contradicts what exists, that's not a fresh perspective, it's just ego and/or laziness. I also want to point out that this director knows that you are always selling your film, even when you're answering questions or making posts on X. He's not talking about how this movie breaks traditionalism or associating it with modern politics. Instead, he's talking about things he knows fans of Alien(s) want to hear. So many of these ideologues-pretending-to-be-creatives could learn something from this guy.
This had better not be just talk to draw fans in, they had better keep their words here, or you will be the next on a long list of Alien movies we as fans will say "Yeah you can avoid that one".
I like the sound of this, and I agree about budgets. Look what The Outer Limits and The Twilight Zone accomplished when forced to work with a limited budget. It made them more creative.
One small thing I appreciated with the Romulus trailers is bringing back "in space, no one can hear you scream" tagine. As social animals, screaming is a way to call others to our aid, and taking away that instinctive call for help is terrifying.
Yeah, it remains to be seen. And having to go heavy on the nods(outside the retro-future look) to the first two films isn't selling the movie for me. Well at least the female lead/survivor with a pulse rifle or flamethrower. After Star Wars:TFA, I learned not to trust anyone or any previews that'll tease nostalgia. That and this movie should have been more like Alien in the way that we don't know which characters will survive and not make it more about another female lead. But again , remains to be seen.
Idk about canon, but what turned me off about Covenant and Prometheus(although Prometheus was a little better) was the incompetence of a lot of the characters. Good horror movies don't have incompetent characters(unless you're trying to go for a more of a slapstick comedy horror film). Films like Aliens, Aliens, The Thing(1984), Predator, etc were good horrors because the characters were competent which made for better and more realistic scenarios, therefore better entertainment.
Was all in on Romulus, didn't even know there was a Nosferatu film coming....the original is one of my favorite films of all time so like Alien, I'm really hoping it lives up to the trailer!
This is the 7th film in Alien franchise (9th if you include AvP). How often is the 7th film in ANY franchise good? Any Saw 7 fans here? How about Friday 13th 7? No? But hyped for this film? Hmm, ok
I do hope it’s true, but Alien Romulus is set between Alien and Aliens. Do you remember that sentence in the begening of Aliens? « And you found something never recorded once in over 300 surveyed worlds. » I do hope Fede know this..
That means nothing because the person who said that might not have had a high enough clearance level. Remember, it was the company that sent the Nostromo and placed Ash in the crew last minute and the "Crew expendable" stipulation make it seem like they knew somthing. Also as far as know I could be wrong but Alien: Isolation is canon and that takes place between Alien and Aliens.
So we got practical effects & now confirmation that Romulus is “Respecting the canon!”. I could well be wrong….. But I’m hedging my bets, that this could indeed turn out to be the BEST Alien movie to date! I mean, we’re in 2024 & with all the current technology & filming techniques available today. This could well take the franchise to the Next level! … & to explain where my mind is at, saying this. 2 scenes in the trailer instantly come to my mind. The Alien breaking out of its Hibernation state & The use of Anti-Gravity! (Factoring in a wonderful blend of Acidic blood!) 😅 It really is good to see that Fede has implemented so many ideas (that make perfect sense, given the scene & setting). But haven’t currently seen on screen, to date! 😁 EXCITED!?…… Just a Little! 😬💪
The TRUE creatives can create Excellence with a low budget just as well as with a higher budget, and PROBABLY MORE and BETTER with the lower budget. The stress and need to exercise even FURTHER creativity to meet those lower budgets, in the hands of the "good ones", generally leads to amazing results. I am MORE excited with each and every thing i read on this one. And I am SOOO happy that they didn't decide to "Hulu-ize" this release like they did to Prey. That sort of disrespect only disrespects audiences and LOSES audiences. The theater is the place to see a big spectacle in space WITH OTHER PEOPLE gasping and gawking along with you on a MONSTER screen with a massive Multichannel sound system. Not at home, even though I WILL eventually do so.
Its funny there are some people out there who genuinely think the original Alien isn’t a horror movie. Alien is absolutely horror. Straight up. And Fede Alvarez is going to bring the franchise back to its horror roots.
i hope they have the sarcastic humour in it aswell like when lambert and cain were saying something to each other. dallas: hey quit your griping lambert: i like griping and i love it when ash is examining the face hugger and one of them says are you sure it's dead and ash says i can safely say it's not a zombie
I wish Covenant had not been an alien movie and had been an engineers movie instead. That fan art of an engineer fighting an alien looked badass but we needed more work done on building the engineers up as a villain. So when Covenant expects us to believe that after an attack on one planet the engineers are all dead it was so dumb.
They say things like this everytime they wheel out a new alien movie, everyone gets excited, the trailer comes out, people dissect that for months and extole its brilliance, the director and actors come out and say its the best new alien movie and everyone believes them. Then its out and its crap. Again... Havent you all learned yet?!?
So hyped for this movie… but I keep getting a feeling that’s it’s gonna be the original Alien vs Weyland-Yutani version of the Alien! I’m sure they did this in a graphic novel back in the 90s?
Only one thing bothers me so far, the Alien's bottom jaw seems to stretch a little too far back, almost like a snake, or as if it's a piece of the prop they stuck too far back
My question is how much is it sticking to what happened in prometheus, because the more time that passes the more i don't want prometheus included in the cannon, because a lot of that is contradictory to what happens in layer movies. Not strengthening later movies 😊
im delighted just to see this and deadpool v wolvering and hopefully Nosferatu (might be the new year for that movie) saved a fortune with no D+ subscriptions so spending that few bits of cash on movies in the cinema with my dad. Lets GO!
This is great news. Fede seems like an easy going guy. A sci-fi nerd. I hope the film is great. However I would not like it to break away from the mythos of Prometheus and Covenant. The latter messed up the lore but in the additional scenes, it is clear that David did not create the Xenomorph. Having the god complex he has, he fashions himself as such because he cannot fathom that he is just as flawed as his creators. The new comics keep the black goo and so on. I think Romulus still does. By no means am I saying give it all to Ridley and have it focus on the androids like he wanted, but create a balance like the first two alien films did. I think Fede could create that balance. After all, it keeps the cosmic horror element because we still do not know what the Alien is. Where it comes from, and that speaks to elements of the universe being this unforgiving and cold space where horrible dangers lurk and await us.
The image is similar to one of the press release images of AVP! I still say 'Alien Romulus' will be the best film in the ALIEN franchise since A L I E N S...
Love how the channel is covering this. Don’t love that image though… I’m Leary about putting the alien too front and center.. Covenant did that and look how that went.
With those words I'm glad that Shameful Retcon from Ridley Scott isn't going to Bleed over to the Xenomorph. It will be a Pleasure to see it now then before when I had reservations about Ridley Scott involvements.
Trying to be fair, and really stoked for this....but 37 years of expectations is a lot to live up to. I'll be happy if it's the 3rd best Alien film made.
@@babyray5643I would genuinely take resurrection over Covenant. Resurrection is a mess in itself, but it doesn’t insult for me with this pretentious idea that leads to nothing. Resurrection also doesn’t try to destroy or retcon the existence of the Xenomorph, it just makes sick abominations from hybrids. I waited years for Covenant to release after I didn’t mind Prometheus and it was a real waste personally.
@@DBTT1000 If we don’t get Sigourney Weaver to return to replace Alien 3, then I will happily accept Alien 3 as the definitive conclusion to Ripley’s story. It may not be perfect, but I didn’t entirely mind it.
Everyone had their own opinion on which Alien sequels are salvageable or not. Outside of the first and second film there are plenty of controversial sequels to argue over.
I actually have good hope for this. The trailers were fantastic. Though i honestly don't really vibe with the teenager movie concept, it doesn't really bother me too much either. After all, we've had the 'space miner cowboys' in Alien 1. We had the badass soldier marines in Alien 2. We had the 'crazy convicts' in Alien 3. And we had the mad scientists gone way too far in Ressurrection. Then we had the AVP movies, which unfortunately, had a very solid and great base, but were just way too much made for gamer nerds, and that's not what the OG or Alien was about. AVP2 was like an ever worse sequel to that, and is just, well, no words. It should have had a proper reboot with Prometheus, but, the problem was, that Prometheus wasn't supposed to be that but it became that instead. Which is why i have a love-hate relationship with it. Prometheus as a story itself is absolutely phenomenal, and even the concept of expanding it into the Alien universe is not bad at all, it was just executed poorly. Covenant could have been great too, but the pacing indeed was all over the place, and i hated the david x2, x2, which really just ruined the whole vibe. They made it about Fassbender. Honestly, at some point all you're seeing is just Michael Fassbender acting. It wasn't even Alien or Prometheus anymore, all it was was just Fassbender role playing in a fantasy setting in the Xenoverse, and they also violated the lore of what made Alien 1 so damn special, the mystery. The idea that it's fossilized and perhaps thousands of years old made it so much more thrilling, especially from a philisophical standpoint. Now, at the same time, back in the day, i was a bit bummed about how that also led to Blomkamp's potential Alien 5 movie to be both retconned and scrapped. In hindsight, i'm actually really glad. Because though Blomkamp has some nice movies, i don't think he's a match for the Alien universe. And it really was just repeating something that has been done before, and likely just blending it with what he has done before with the Aliens in South Afirca movie and the Elysium movie. And somehow, i think that would have made it far too much, again, a blend-mix-repeat of everything instead of something new, exciting, and valuable. One of the reasons i thoroughly disliked Prometheus and Covenant, but more the first, is because Scott just started being all up and arrogant about his 'own' movie when Prometheus truly is nothing but a 90% repeat of Alien Vs Predator, just without the preds and on another planet. It really lacked originality. It just looked great. I think a Blomkamp Alien movie would actually have been a nail in the coffin and ruined the franchise forever. If we instead look at the absolutely mesmerizing jaw-to-the-floor writing and execution of the game 'Isolation', that's exactly how it should be done. That was creative and told a 'new' independent story whilst respecting evertything. It touched everything too, including the androids, which only point of criticism was that they got a bit predictable at some point and lacked variety, especially in physical design. The 'Prey' movie recently as a Pred-reboot, showed that it can have success. Even as a reboot. It respected the origins wonderfully yet was very creative and new. It was not perfect, but let's be fair, which movie is, and neither was Alien 1, Alien 2, or Predator 1 or Predator 2 for that matter. I am really happy that they took the Alien Isolation concept, and actually really applied it. Essentially we're seeing Sevastopol station, but named Romulus instead. I love the lore and mythical name and design, and the dark, corridor, environment. It doesn't really bother me that it's kids, because it isn't really kids. It's part of the universe, and it's following the characters. I like how it tells an independent story that happened between Alien 1 and Alien 2 and we had no clue. As far as we were aware, nothing happened between A1 and A2, but this is gonna show a very different story, and also opens up that there was more behind it regarding A1 just the same. That said, i must say that 1 big flaw has already been spotted imho. And that's when the facehugger clings on to the face of one of the girls, and how she falls back. One one hand, it looks like a very cool latch-on, but the problem is how she just immediately freezes and falls to the back, right on the back of her head. Quite factually, falling LIKE THAT on the back of your skull, that 'rigid' is 100% going to cause severe head injury. like really, that's gonna cause a skull fracture, and it makes no sense that she falls like that. A grab to the face with her hands, shortly, and 'covering' her fall to then very quickly get subdued, would have been fine. that's a minor 'criticism' though. I'm still excited.
It literally just looks like a bad rehash of the original, down to the copy-pasted title transition. The MOST original part of this trailer is a guy in zero gravity floating towards floating acid blood. Thats it. Everything else is by the numbers. People saying it looks fresh are high on copium.
I think you're missing the point here, fede alvarez keep saying this movie is for OG fans and strictly obey the lore of the first 2 movies. Why you keep hating this movie when it's supposed to do that???? The reason why RUclipsr said its fresh because this is the first movie since ressurection where alien is the main threat
I think it’s great they’re sticking to the canon other films get themselves in trouble trying to distance their film away from lore. Can’t wait to watch
Romulus is the one movie I’m most excited about for 2024. With Fede Alverez at the helm I’m pretty confident it’ll be a blast to watch. I’m thinking a cross between Aliens and Isolation
Isn't it so refreshing to hear a director talking about his respect for lore and the fans and none of this "we made this to piss off alot of people" nonsense?. Which is only said to cover up bad writing imo
J j abrams said the exact same words when asked about Star Wars “respecting the legacy” and look how that turned out
Right but He is Not j.j. So i believe him the first time because i wanna believe him
By "legacy" he meant respecting whatever his feminist lesbian overlord says.
@@Sirtobiwan1988 He's not JJ, but he is the guy who butchered The Girl in the Spider's Web.
@@ChanceX74 i know but i wanna believe that the movie is good hope that the good reviewers (youtubers) confirm that before i buy my ticket i will not spend money without prof of that
@@gaiali453 yeah i see all the red flags i will not buy a ticket without prof that the movie is woke free
Fede, please dont shatter my last molecule of hope for this franchise😢
I kind of liked Alien: Resurrection, too.
@@PaulaBean Same here
I personally loved Prometheus/Covenant. I didn’t care that they killed or atleast didn’t show what happened to Shaw.
I want to see Scott’s ideas further explored. Wish the studio would let him make more.
We're here now 2024 with a new Alien movie.Im glad there is a Prometheus and Covenant jus for the lore.Got to see Wheyland and the Space Jockey.And 3 different Xenomorphs
Personally I liked Prometheus, despite some the flaws, and was really onboard for what was being teased and set up, but I did feel Alien Covenant was a wrong turn and killing Shaw was a big mistake!
@@alexhenderson1312agreed give shaw plot armor
I know its just a promo image, but i dont really like that she is staring it down fearlessly.
She may not be human, remember the black guy is a synthetic, she may also be a synthetic, his sister. Aliens act differently around non human lifeforms.
@@jasoncruizer huh. I hadn't heard or considered that.
I don't know I feel like that would blow the entire narrative up in a bad way.
Danger for the main character, oh wait never mind.
I don't think that's it but, maybe it is.
Didn't they have this same shot in the 2nd AVP movie? It was the pred in place of the girl tho.
@@FatherFigure-itout maybe they all die, there would have been a survivor or incident (i.e.) Ripley case where Weyland Yutani was involved and covered it up.
@@genkidamatrunks6759 hahaha. I think I know the shot your talking about. But man that would be ridiculous
Just give us colonial marines, action, horror, maybe a theatre type battle and lots of aliens.
No thanks
@@frankthecat1660 yes.
Facts!! They haven't done that since "Aliens" bring the Marines back! They can be reintroduced if they did another prequel to Aliens=Hadley's Hope! They had a security team fighting against the Aliens
I want more of the evil company and mad science aspect.
Not everyone wants that, some people want alien not aliens
I was encouraged by the trailer but I'm still worried about the DEI cast and the obvious discount Ripley role...yet again. I still don't get the blue light, is there canon for it? I always thought it was space jockey tech, as we don't ever see it any other time there's eggs. I'm hopeful though.
I’m looking forward to the scene where the Alien hive (cannon) start chanting to the Queen (cannon) “The Power of one… the power of two… the Power of maaaaaanyyyyy”
and then the stone temple their in can catch on fire from a candle
This is great and not surprising. Fede Alvarez isn't just a talented artist, he's also a genuine geek and very respectful of the original movies.
So was David fincher. That's not a guarantee of anything. Grow up
@@BobJenkins-ez1jlDavid came onto an already troubled production. Fede has full control of his film. Not even a comparison
@@LMacca97 really? Do you work for Disney? I know all about the production issues with alien three. Let's talk about alien resurrection and the campy shit show that movie was even considering the French director of that movie was already a respected director in his own right. Ridley Scott fucked up his own prequels to alien. Let's be real honest about this, there are only two good alien movies and we all know what they are. The rest are uneven in quality. There's good stuff along side just embarrassing bad stuff in the rest of them.
@BobJenkins-ez1jl Settle down sunshine. Fede isn't just the director, he also wrote the film. He's been on the project from the very start, he isn't jumping onto a sinking ship like Fincher. There's been no news to suggest a troubled production. Disney are too busy making Star Wars gay and lame.
@@LMacca97 well that's funny because the cast of alien Romulus all look like gay teens. You may be in for a surprise.
This might be a reach but I think he may have pretty much said yeppp... We're showing the growth process of the Xenomorph in the film... ( Regards to some of his quote in that article... )
"Respecting The Canon" Sure, ok.
Its without question just gonna be a checklist of doing everything the original movie did but worse
There is barely a canon in Aliens universe. Some people view the first movie alone as canon some view the first two and ignore third and fourth. Some accept Prometheus and Covenant along with everything else. Some people accept Colonial marines game as canon where as others ignore it. We like to hear something is being done according to canon but what does that mean exactly?
I am giving Aliens one last chance. If they fuck it up I'm done
@@Hootie1971 That's very understandable. Here's hoping
I'm not going that far, lol. I think the right story, in the right hands, in this universe, could be FANTASTIC. And I used to think Sir Ridley HAD to be the guy. Prometheus was a nice try, but it never went anywhere with the true horror, and the android origins were just CRAP. So, I LOVE what Fede is saying and doing so far, and I am VERY confident this one is going to be the best one since the original. A true sci fi horror movie that is worthy of being in this universe. But...IF it is not, you can bet I will still be there for the TV show, for the next one, the next one, and the next. I saw the original IN THE THEATER in 1979 after begging my mum for MONTHS to take this little kid to his first "R' rated movie, and she did, with a group of friends for my birthday. And THAT hatched a love with this franchise that has NEVER ceased. I LOVE it. I LOVE Giger. It is an amazing amalgam of art, science, and grotesque. I'll never give up. I'm a true Alien fan. True Fans aren't "wishy-washy" and come and go with the tide. True fans are there for each and every thing and evaluate each and every release in said universe on its own merits, not to give up. Casuals do not. So you either are a fan, or you aren't, and that's all there is to it.
@@thegood9 I am looking forward to this movie. I was very skeptical when I first heard but everything I have seen has made me very optimistic about this.
Same. After the abortion that was Covenant (just piss off Ridley), I SWORE I'd never see another Alien film at the cinema. I'm going against my own word here to see this one, so it BETTER BE friggin GREAT!!
Understandable. I won't be rushing to the theatre to see this but I will watch it eventually. I'm afraid we've already seen the best parts in the trailers.
Man I liked covenant.
Same.
Something I picked up on. . . When Walter is alerted that the solar flare is damaging the ship, we see moments before , Walter's filling up a specimen container .... once he is alerted , he sets it down on the floor before he heads to where he goes... never to be seen or talked about again.... or will it ?? ... ?? Your thoughts on this?
Holy crap look what happens when you hire an actual fan to work on your franchise! The odds of making a good product greatly improve. What a novel concept!
@@unknownindividual Alien 3 was terrible, Alien Resurrection was much better..
Tell me again how good Prometheus was, or wrath of Khan for that matter
@@cassettelordLmao, good joke. 😂
I don't really understand what is meant by alien covenant not respecting the Canon. The Canon was created by ridley Scott together with H R giger and Shushett and o banon ,the original writers of alien . The derelict, space jockey, face hugger , xenomorph all their ideas . There was no suggesting in the original alien of an alien planet . That was the concept created by dark horse comics with their Canon based off the original movie . And we do see in the romulus official trailer what appears to be someone holding Vials of the black goo which most likely are directly linked to prometheus and Covenant. Is that a wrong interpretation?
Walter Hill and David Giler wrote the script that got filmed for the original Alien, based on O'Bannon's script.
@@21stcenturyhiphop that's what I said the original script was written by O bannon and Shusset . And it was the latter who came up with the fact hugger concept literally saying the way to get the alien on board the ship was to have a creature basically rape someone, which we now know is the face hugger. Walter hill and giler rewrote their script and added the ash android character
@@sebraven O'Bannon's script is actually more comparable to Prometheus than the original Alien. It bears no resemblance to the Giler/Hill version, except for a general structure.
This is why having your own headcanon is best when it comes to Aliens. Otherwise as a viewer you would be shooting yourself on the foot because something somewhere will definitely not add up with the rest of the other stories
@@sebraven Ronald Shushett
Not aware Alien is known for being a teenage slasher?
im a huge fan of the Evil Dead series so while I wasnt into his take on the newer ED movie I respect his style of filmaking and he obviously has a love for and understands atmosphere and tone when it comes to horror and his love of creature effects makes him a good pick for this. I hope it turns out well
How did Covenant not respect the canon?
It did.
@@anon-yw4wd exactly. So I don’t get the hate
Well it pissed a lot of people off by killing off shaw ... even though they didn't get her and had to figure it out... the idiotic decision to go out without any breathing apparatus, not exploring the crashed Direlect , like at all other than 5 min. ,,,,, not helping the girl who was stuck in the room with the back burster .. shooting everything to only blow up the escape ship... or only ship ..... why spend big bucks to have dude from Spiderman in it only to be killed off before he ever showed up on screen... (though he was brought up on charges then) still not having xenomorphs in it ... or better yet, no tie in to Alien which was the point of "prequels" and just sooo many more things ... but it's all but a memory now 😂
All sounds promising, and it's so refreshing to hear of Creatives who actually give a damn about the lore of the universe they are adding to. How sad that last sentence is: that it's "refreshing" rather than the norm.
I cannot wait for August, I absolutely have to see this film! I rarely get excited for a movie but for Alien I make an exception. I've been let down by the last few movies i was pumped for like Antlers and Alien Covenant. I still liked both of those films but they were not what I expected or as good as I had hoped they would be.
There doesn't seem to be any adults in this film. It looks like a teen slasher film.
Last I checked people in their 20´s are adults, you must be around some very mature looking teens if this fits the definiton of a teen to you.
@@CZJames20 OK in their 20's. Were all the people in Alien, Aliens or any of the other films just in their 20's?
@@leonpruden7079 Yes they are definitely younger than other Alien films, but it has a story explanation behind it and tbh, I see that as a plus, bunch of pretty unknown actors at least doesn´t break immersion and this movie could really kickstart their carrer if it does well.
@@CZJames20 I appreciate your optimism.
@@leonpruden7079 Hopefully it pays off :)
That gives me a little bit more of hope but I’m still gonna hold off until reviews from people I trust come out.
Taking this with a grain of salt. I remember the Mortal Kombat director from a couple of years ago said he would respect the canon from the original film, and the movie sucked.
so one director says something and everyother director is a liar? lool
The director did make a underrated evil dead movie
Mortal combat is a game...
@beanbag9696 in which the movie greatly strayed from the source material for no reason. The guy straight up lied. Do I think Fede is lying? No. But it's worth noting that it wouldn't be the first time unfortunately.
@@Tripl3Cherri3s calm down sweetheart
Dear Sir, if one reads the same articles but with another more concerned intonation, these articles would be sounding like “I apologies, I tried my best, but it did not work out, so before you go to cinemas, I wanted to explain myself”
Lets clear the air here about the Xeno incubation times.
In ALIENS, when Ripley goes off on the Marines she says and i quote, "Just 1 one of these things managed to wipe out my entire crew in less than 24 hours" which implies that from the time Kane got facehugged to the time she blew Big Chap out the air lock, it had only been 1 day.
If we take ALL the Canon across all the movies involving Xenos.... Compared to OG ALIEN, AVP and Covenant were sped up for sure..... but.....
If we take into account what Fede says about DNA differences, then every time a Queen comes forth and spawns a new hive, across god knows how many years that Xenos have been around... Every hives incubation cycle across generations, DNA, and time, would potentially change how fast the facehugger implants and dies, how fast the chestburster developes and kills host, and finally how fast it would molt into its adult form.
Just food for thought if all that i said makes sense to anyone.
I agree 👍 .
It can also involve the species that becomes the hosts for these things. In the dog (the theatrical version of Alien 3), the development looked fairly quick and the chestburster looked larger. Maybe in species like a dog that are born or grow quicker, the gestation period is quicker.
Or she meant it was 24 hours from the time it killed Kane through to her escaping, which seems much more likely.
@DarkLadyAthena1 that is also true in general ALIEN lore. Different species = different gestational times.
Look at how much longer it took the PredAlien to burst out compared to a human grown in AVP!
@andysmith1996 that could be the case, but no one knows for sure which she was referring to...
@@charlesvernon5450 Well, Weaver said about the stripping scene, "After five days of blood and guts, and fear, and sweat and urine, do you think Ripley wouldn’t take off her clothes?" I reckon Cameron just made up the 24 hours bit without really thinking about continuity.
What if a facehugger got hold of a sheep? Would we have some wooly xenomorph running around?
Yes
Or , what would happen if a facehugger attached to a xenomorph... hmmmmm
Just remember folks, lots of people have said that "this project isn't going to be a piece of shit like the others" with horrible results. Just free yourselves of expectations and watch the movie. Then you can give an informed opinion afterwards. Until then, all videos and coverage means NOTHING.
Oh, are they offering everyone a free viewing of the movie so we can all have an informed opinion BEFORE putting money down? That's great news!
I'm so sick of their standard marketing tactic, where they make a deliberately bad movie, and show you it's bad in the trailers, yet also have the gall to tell you to give them money before you make any judgement, and even after you do give them money you're STILL called toxic if you dare to utter a single gripe.
Prometheus and Alien: Covenant were pretentious?? That is the last word I would have expected to hear to describe them. Ridley Scott wanted the series to go a bit deeper. I thought they were very well done. Especially with Fassbender playing David. So menacing and glitched. Oh well, mob rule. People just want monsters without the imagination that made them so horrifying in the first place. =/
Alien covenant got studios meddling, that movie supposed to be shaw with David going to engineer planet and make havoc there. Sadly it became montage and Shaw died......
I loved prometheus and covenant lol
I want to believe they can make a great movie, on the other hand I thought it should've been over after Alien 3. 😐
*Aliens
@@bewmdogg I didn't dislike Alien 3's ending. Decent conclusion. I have a rough guess why you prefer Aliens. 😊
even Alien 3 should not exist.
Alien Resurrection has to be one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen. It’s the only Alien movie I refuse to rewatch to this day.
@@canceritself1854 That was the movie that convinced me 3 movies were enough. 😄
Clicked for the alien news. Nerded out over the gunpla kits in the background! Awesome video Mr. H!
Nice on the Kenner action figures. I have the NECA of Scorpion, Gorilla, Rhino, Prey Mantis, and Snake. Maybe you should do a review on them one of these days and other Alien collectables.
People are always one step away from running back to slop as long as it is packaged the right way. I will watch Mr H's review though.
Would love if they explained how the hell the chestburster grows from cat size into a three meter really heavy giant with serious bone density. That takes sustenance and a intake of physical mass. Is it gnawing on the ship's/station's structural beams, or is it raiding the pantry?
Well from what I read into it Alvarez does not want to go down the Rabit Hole of WHERE the Xenomorph came from and so he will likely be doing nothing to either Prove or Disprove what Alien Covenant had shown.
He wants to just focus on the Xenomorph and yes as these are likely Obtained from DNA/Goo they will have some minor differences to Alien and Alien Covenant.
Its interesting that he said that the Chest Burster Cycle would be more like ALIEN..... which implies that the Crew are stranded on the Station for a while... or the Chest Burster happens at a latter point than we may assume
"There's somefink in the wattah!!" That single line has killed this movie for me.
You say ‘confirms’, I say ‘claims’.
We’ll see.
I thought Ridley invented the canon. How can it not be canon if they started it?
They race swappoed the face huggers.
Amazing 😂
I'm very excited about this film. I have an Alien pinball machine, two 1:1 Alien sculpts, statues, figures, books, etc.
As a fan of alien besides the movies, like comics etc i was actually incredibly exited about getting movies that were different and explored lore more. Im gonna like Romulus im sure but i genuinely like when movie franchises make bold movies from time to time instead of just reskining the same vibes over n over.
Unpopular opinion.....Covenant is a great movie and I want a sequel 😂
course hes respecting the Canon. It looks like he totally copied and pasted Alien.
I already know who is the main character and who will survive or die within a second of viewing. I already know the monster and all the mystery behind it.
Only with teenagers 🤣
Canon according to IP owners also mean the events of the Colonial Marines game occurred nd Hicks survived. It also means the events of Resurrection will come to pass. I would much more prefer at this point that they get the tone right over anything else.
The Q&A is on youtube.
This is very good news - it's also a good example of what all filmmakers/showrunners should be doing, when they end up working in an existing franchise. This, 'we didn't want the writers to know any of the lore' crap needs to stop. Do I think, sometimes, folks can offer a fresh perspective on something? Yeah, we should have that. But if it directly contradicts what exists, that's not a fresh perspective, it's just ego and/or laziness.
I also want to point out that this director knows that you are always selling your film, even when you're answering questions or making posts on X. He's not talking about how this movie breaks traditionalism or associating it with modern politics. Instead, he's talking about things he knows fans of Alien(s) want to hear. So many of these ideologues-pretending-to-be-creatives could learn something from this guy.
This had better not be just talk to draw fans in, they had better keep their words here, or you will be the next on a long list of Alien movies we as fans will say "Yeah you can avoid that one".
Seems like the right man for the job. The release of this movie is closing in. Man, I'm excited!
I like the sound of this, and I agree about budgets. Look what The Outer Limits and The Twilight Zone accomplished when forced to work with a limited budget. It made them more creative.
One small thing I appreciated with the Romulus trailers is bringing back "in space, no one can hear you scream" tagine. As social animals, screaming is a way to call others to our aid, and taking away that instinctive call for help is terrifying.
me watching the Alien Romulus trailer with my hands over my eyes; "please be good....please be good.... please don't be more woke girl-boss crap...."
The good thing is alien sort of led the way for bad ass female leads - long as they don’t woke it up with gender politics
Yeah, it remains to be seen. And having to go heavy on the nods(outside the retro-future look) to the first two films isn't selling the movie for me. Well at least the female lead/survivor with a pulse rifle or flamethrower. After Star Wars:TFA, I learned not to trust anyone or any previews that'll tease nostalgia.
That and this movie should have been more like Alien in the way that we don't know which characters will survive and not make it more about another female lead. But again , remains to be seen.
The good news is this will be better than 2018's The Predator.
The bad news is it will be as memorable as 2018's The Predator.
@@jimjam51075Nothing will be worse than Predators hunting for autism. *NOTHING.* 😭💀
@@jimjam51075 this makes no sense.
I believe it when I see it! Scott said the same thing when he made Prometheus.
Idk about canon, but what turned me off about Covenant and Prometheus(although Prometheus was a little better) was the incompetence of a lot of the characters. Good horror movies don't have incompetent characters(unless you're trying to go for a more of a slapstick comedy horror film). Films like Aliens, Aliens, The Thing(1984), Predator, etc were good horrors because the characters were competent which made for better and more realistic scenarios, therefore better entertainment.
Think we'll get two Horror genre wins this year?
Which has you more eager, Romulus or Nosferatu?
Was all in on Romulus, didn't even know there was a Nosferatu film coming....the original is one of my favorite films of all time so like Alien, I'm really hoping it lives up to the trailer!
This must be like Christmas for all Alien fans. I’m really happy for you all 👍 Just wish there was someone like Fede Alvarez in charge of Star Wars. 😢
This is the 7th film in Alien franchise (9th if you include AvP). How often is the 7th film in ANY franchise good? Any Saw 7 fans here? How about Friday 13th 7? No? But hyped for this film? Hmm, ok
I do hope it’s true, but Alien Romulus is set between Alien and Aliens. Do you remember that sentence in the begening of Aliens? « And you found something never recorded once in over 300 surveyed worlds. » I do hope Fede know this..
That means nothing because the person who said that might not have had a high enough clearance level. Remember, it was the company that sent the Nostromo and placed Ash in the crew last minute and the "Crew expendable" stipulation make it seem like they knew somthing. Also as far as know I could be wrong but Alien: Isolation is canon and that takes place between Alien and Aliens.
Yes, because no company EVER lies.
@@R005TERILLUSIONthat person could have been lieing they work for the company
Remember that records can be falsified or deleted
So we got practical effects & now confirmation that Romulus is “Respecting the canon!”.
I could well be wrong….. But I’m hedging my bets, that this could indeed turn out to be the BEST Alien movie to date!
I mean, we’re in 2024 & with all the current technology & filming techniques available today. This could well take the franchise to the Next level!
… & to explain where my mind is at, saying this.
2 scenes in the trailer instantly come to my mind.
The Alien breaking out of its Hibernation state & The use of Anti-Gravity! (Factoring in a wonderful blend of Acidic blood!) 😅
It really is good to see that Fede has implemented so many ideas (that make perfect sense, given the scene & setting). But haven’t currently seen on screen, to date! 😁
EXCITED!?…… Just a Little! 😬💪
The TRUE creatives can create Excellence with a low budget just as well as with a higher budget, and PROBABLY MORE and BETTER with the lower budget. The stress and need to exercise even FURTHER creativity to meet those lower budgets, in the hands of the "good ones", generally leads to amazing results. I am MORE excited with each and every thing i read on this one. And I am SOOO happy that they didn't decide to "Hulu-ize" this release like they did to Prey. That sort of disrespect only disrespects audiences and LOSES audiences. The theater is the place to see a big spectacle in space WITH OTHER PEOPLE gasping and gawking along with you on a MONSTER screen with a massive Multichannel sound system. Not at home, even though I WILL eventually do so.
Let's just hope they do respect the cannon and don't pull a Star wars on us.
Its funny there are some people out there who genuinely think the original Alien isn’t a horror movie.
Alien is absolutely horror. Straight up. And Fede Alvarez is going to bring the franchise back to its horror roots.
i hope they have the sarcastic humour in it aswell like when lambert and cain were saying something to each other.
dallas: hey quit your griping
lambert: i like griping
and i love it when ash is examining the face hugger and one of them says are you sure it's dead and ash says i can safely say it's not a zombie
I wish Covenant had not been an alien movie and had been an engineers movie instead. That fan art of an engineer fighting an alien looked badass but we needed more work done on building the engineers up as a villain. So when Covenant expects us to believe that after an attack on one planet the engineers are all dead it was so dumb.
They say things like this everytime they wheel out a new alien movie, everyone gets excited, the trailer comes out, people dissect that for months and extole its brilliance, the director and actors come out and say its the best new alien movie and everyone believes them.
Then its out and its crap.
Again...
Havent you all learned yet?!?
So hyped for this movie… but I keep getting a feeling that’s it’s gonna be the original Alien vs Weyland-Yutani version of the Alien!
I’m sure they did this in a graphic novel back in the 90s?
Please have a bonus disk with all of the behind screens action, sometimes its on par with the feature film
Only one thing bothers me so far, the Alien's bottom jaw seems to stretch a little too far back, almost like a snake, or as if it's a piece of the prop they stuck too far back
My question is how much is it sticking to what happened in prometheus, because the more time that passes the more i don't want prometheus included in the cannon, because a lot of that is contradictory to what happens in layer movies. Not strengthening later movies 😊
im delighted just to see this and deadpool v wolvering and hopefully Nosferatu (might be the new year for that movie) saved a fortune with no D+ subscriptions so spending that few bits of cash on movies in the cinema with my dad. Lets GO!
Im going to go see it in the Cinema.
A director who is a fan, respects the fans and the source material? Whaaaaat???
This is great news. Fede seems like an easy going guy. A sci-fi nerd. I hope the film is great.
However I would not like it to break away from the mythos of Prometheus and Covenant. The latter messed up the lore but in the additional scenes, it is clear that David did not create the Xenomorph. Having the god complex he has, he fashions himself as such because he cannot fathom that he is just as flawed as his creators.
The new comics keep the black goo and so on. I think Romulus still does. By no means am I saying give it all to Ridley and have it focus on the androids like he wanted, but create a balance like the first two alien films did. I think Fede could create that balance. After all, it keeps the cosmic horror element because we still do not know what the Alien is. Where it comes from, and that speaks to elements of the universe being this unforgiving and cold space where horrible dangers lurk and await us.
I’m curious about this movie. I do think having a bunch of teens is suspect and odd.
Can't wait, sounds great! Thanks for sharing. 👍
Would love to see the growth process of the Xeno
Did you catch there appears to be a Narcissus type shuttle in the distance when the space station is crashing into the planetoid rings?
The image is similar to one of the press release images of AVP! I still say 'Alien Romulus' will be the best film in the ALIEN franchise since A L I E N S...
It does and I really don’t like the aliens dinosaur mouth. They had the same horrible look in the avp movies.
They say talk is cheap so we will see
Love how the channel is covering this. Don’t love that image though… I’m Leary about putting the alien too front and center.. Covenant did that and look how that went.
With those words I'm glad that Shameful Retcon from Ridley Scott isn't going to Bleed over to the Xenomorph. It will be a Pleasure to see it now then before when I had reservations about Ridley Scott involvements.
This might be the first movie I might go see in a theater in twenty years!
Trying to be fair, and really stoked for this....but 37 years of expectations is a lot to live up to. I'll be happy if it's the 3rd best Alien film made.
Thank goodness, I still see some people defend Covenant as a good film. I would take Alien resurrection over Covenant.
Alien Covenant isn’t perfect, but it’s far more better than Resurrection. That’s silly
Alien Resurrection was an awesome movie but I completely understand your comment because for me, I'd take Alien 3 over Covenant LOL
@@babyray5643I would genuinely take resurrection over Covenant. Resurrection is a mess in itself, but it doesn’t insult for me with this pretentious idea that leads to nothing. Resurrection also doesn’t try to destroy or retcon the existence of the Xenomorph, it just makes sick abominations from hybrids. I waited years for Covenant to release after I didn’t mind Prometheus and it was a real waste personally.
@@DBTT1000 If we don’t get Sigourney Weaver to return to replace Alien 3, then I will happily accept Alien 3 as the definitive conclusion to Ripley’s story. It may not be perfect, but I didn’t entirely mind it.
Everyone had their own opinion on which Alien sequels are salvageable or not.
Outside of the first and second film there are plenty of controversial sequels to argue over.
I actually have good hope for this. The trailers were fantastic. Though i honestly don't really vibe with the teenager movie concept, it doesn't really bother me too much either. After all, we've had the 'space miner cowboys' in Alien 1. We had the badass soldier marines in Alien 2. We had the 'crazy convicts' in Alien 3. And we had the mad scientists gone way too far in Ressurrection. Then we had the AVP movies, which unfortunately, had a very solid and great base, but were just way too much made for gamer nerds, and that's not what the OG or Alien was about. AVP2 was like an ever worse sequel to that, and is just, well, no words.
It should have had a proper reboot with Prometheus, but, the problem was, that Prometheus wasn't supposed to be that but it became that instead. Which is why i have a love-hate relationship with it. Prometheus as a story itself is absolutely phenomenal, and even the concept of expanding it into the Alien universe is not bad at all, it was just executed poorly.
Covenant could have been great too, but the pacing indeed was all over the place, and i hated the david x2, x2, which really just ruined the whole vibe. They made it about Fassbender. Honestly, at some point all you're seeing is just Michael Fassbender acting. It wasn't even Alien or Prometheus anymore, all it was was just Fassbender role playing in a fantasy setting in the Xenoverse, and they also violated the lore of what made Alien 1 so damn special, the mystery. The idea that it's fossilized and perhaps thousands of years old made it so much more thrilling, especially from a philisophical standpoint.
Now, at the same time, back in the day, i was a bit bummed about how that also led to Blomkamp's potential Alien 5 movie to be both retconned and scrapped. In hindsight, i'm actually really glad.
Because though Blomkamp has some nice movies, i don't think he's a match for the Alien universe. And it really was just repeating something that has been done before, and likely just blending it with what he has done before with the Aliens in South Afirca movie and the Elysium movie. And somehow, i think that would have made it far too much, again, a blend-mix-repeat of everything instead of something new, exciting, and valuable.
One of the reasons i thoroughly disliked Prometheus and Covenant, but more the first, is because Scott just started being all up and arrogant about his 'own' movie when Prometheus truly is nothing but a 90% repeat of Alien Vs Predator, just without the preds and on another planet. It really lacked originality. It just looked great.
I think a Blomkamp Alien movie would actually have been a nail in the coffin and ruined the franchise forever.
If we instead look at the absolutely mesmerizing jaw-to-the-floor writing and execution of the game 'Isolation', that's exactly how it should be done. That was creative and told a 'new' independent story whilst respecting evertything. It touched everything too, including the androids, which only point of criticism was that they got a bit predictable at some point and lacked variety, especially in physical design.
The 'Prey' movie recently as a Pred-reboot, showed that it can have success. Even as a reboot. It respected the origins wonderfully yet was very creative and new. It was not perfect, but let's be fair, which movie is, and neither was Alien 1, Alien 2, or Predator 1 or Predator 2 for that matter.
I am really happy that they took the Alien Isolation concept, and actually really applied it. Essentially we're seeing Sevastopol station, but named Romulus instead. I love the lore and mythical name and design, and the dark, corridor, environment.
It doesn't really bother me that it's kids, because it isn't really kids. It's part of the universe, and it's following the characters. I like how it tells an independent story that happened between Alien 1 and Alien 2 and we had no clue. As far as we were aware, nothing happened between A1 and A2, but this is gonna show a very different story, and also opens up that there was more behind it regarding A1 just the same.
That said, i must say that 1 big flaw has already been spotted imho. And that's when the facehugger clings on to the face of one of the girls, and how she falls back. One one hand, it looks like a very cool latch-on, but the problem is how she just immediately freezes and falls to the back, right on the back of her head. Quite factually, falling LIKE THAT on the back of your skull, that 'rigid' is 100% going to cause severe head injury. like really, that's gonna cause a skull fracture, and it makes no sense that she falls like that.
A grab to the face with her hands, shortly, and 'covering' her fall to then very quickly get subdued, would have been fine. that's a minor 'criticism' though.
I'm still excited.
when the Director himself is researching the franchise to try to keep his movie as canonically as possible, gives me high hopes for this film.
It literally just looks like a bad rehash of the original, down to the copy-pasted title transition. The MOST original part of this trailer is a guy in zero gravity floating towards floating acid blood. Thats it. Everything else is by the numbers. People saying it looks fresh are high on copium.
I think you're missing the point here, fede alvarez keep saying this movie is for OG fans and strictly obey the lore of the first 2 movies. Why you keep hating this movie when it's supposed to do that????
The reason why RUclipsr said its fresh because this is the first movie since ressurection where alien is the main threat
Alien Covenant not only do respect canon but add much more to it.
I hope we do get around to seeing an actual sequel to covenant, with the original engineer getting face hugged, maybe creating athe first Queen alien.
The fact thay Frede cares about established lore makes me like him 1,000x more
Absolutely this is MY #1 most anticipated movie of the year, ahead of #2 Longlegs, and #3 Maxxxine...
Don't trust their words, look at their actions ;)
This is a really good advice in general about anything.
Thanks for the video and I'm surprised you weren't invited to this event!
It looks extremely gen z, I hope it exceeds my expectations.. but really there’s be no decent movies for years now.. can’t see this being an exception
Are there going to be any adults in the film?
I think it’s great they’re sticking to the canon other films get themselves in trouble trying to distance their film away from lore. Can’t wait to watch
Hmmm. I'm still going to wait for it on streaming.
very excited for this.
Romulus is the one movie I’m most excited about for 2024. With Fede Alverez at the helm I’m pretty confident it’ll be a blast to watch. I’m thinking a cross between Aliens and Isolation
It's still looking good.... been waiting for a trip-up but not so far.
Sounds like this is going to be great , very excited for this movie.
Guy's a fan first. I fucking love it.
I say we forget that Alien: Covenant happened.
And add Prometheus as well...
@@davidpaterson3443 Yeah. As much as I WANTED to like Prometheus, I admit that it was a failure.
I really enjoyed those movies.
Very interesting and creative movies.
Have you seen the narcissus in the ship exploding scene? Can be seen bottom left…