News culture After 7 years of waiting, the SF Alien saga is back: the next film will terrify cinemas in 2024!
The Alien franchise has experienced every emotion since its theatrical debut in 1979. No less than four directors have successively developed a universe that today includes eight films (if we take into account the Alien vs. Predator crossover) and soon nine films. The Xenomorph returns to terrorize moviegoers in 2024.
The return of Alien to the cinema
Fans of horror and galactic epics can’t wait for the next installment of one of the most iconic sagas of the 7th century. So legendary that it is the origin of the most sacred monster in cinema and popularized the codes of a subgenre: the slasher.
The memory of Prometheus, the science fiction messiah created by the genre’s prophet himself, acted like a damp squib when it was released in 2012, and nothing could be done to save the sequel, Alien: Covenant (2017). You a sinking movie ship. However, Saving the xenomorph could come in 2024 with a brand new film directed by horror and thriller specialist Fede Alvarez. The Uruguayan filmmaker is behind the popular films Don’t Breathe: House of Darkness (2016), Evil Dead (2013) and the series One Night in Hell (2014), based on the film by Robert Rodriguez.
A film dubbed by Ridley Scott
After several months of waiting in the shadows, the creature conceived by HR Giger at the end of the 1970s pounces on its prey on March 20, 2024 and releases a first trailer from its iconic jaws (see above). Alien: Romulus is doing everything it can to reconcile fans with the saga, and it seems to be working. “I love him”, “The film of the year”… The enthusiastic reactions didn’t take long to arrive. Some even dare to compare the feature film with the celebrated Alien: Isolation.
Additionally, Alien: Romulus takes place between Alien (1979) and Aliens, the Return (1986), just like the survival horror developed by Creative Assembly and published by Sega in 2014. Directed and co-written by Fede Alvarez, the film follows the misadventures of a group of young people pursued by a xenomorph on a distant world at the edge of the universe.
Fede (Alvarez), what can I say? It is great ! -Ridley Scott
