Alien: Romulus (2024)
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- Fede Γlvarez originally wanted a completely different ending for the film, but test audiences preferred the one we see today.
- The original script for Alien: Romulus was written over a decade before production finally began in 2024.
- Many of the practical effects used in the climax were achieved without any CGI.
Alien: Romulus is a 2024 American science fiction horror film directed by Fede Alvarez, set between the events of Alien and Aliens. Cailee Spaeny stars as Rain Carradine, a young colonist on a remote mining moon who, along with a group of young workers desperate to escape their corporate-indentured servitude, boards a derelict space station in orbit that they hope contains the cryogenic chambers they need to reach another colony. Instead, they discover the station has been used by the Weyland-Yutani Corporation for xenomorph research, and the dormant aliens awaken to hunt the young intruders through the station's dark corridors and zero-gravity environments.
Fede Alvarez, who had proven his horror credentials with Evil Dead, brought a claustrophobic, genuinely terrifying intensity that many critics considered the franchise's best since Aliens. The zero-gravity facehugger scene was one of the franchise's most inventively staged horror sequences. Alien: Romulus earned $350 million worldwide on a $80 million budget.
