Alien: Romulus (2024 film directed by Fede Álvarez) (previously: So Disney has ordered a direct-to-Hulu Alien movie)

[Thor 9,334]

Teaser trailer dropped today:

 

 

 

Looks tense! This has been my most-anticipated film of 2024 for quite some time already, even before I saw the trailer.

 

Any chance we could update the headline to say Fede Alvarez' ALIEN: ROMULUS or some such thing now? Makes it easier to find.

[Marian Schedenig 11,162]

56 minutes ago, Naïve Old Fart said:

The teaser for ALIEN ROMULUS has just dropped, and it isn't half bad.

 

Looks good! And Don't Breathe was excellent, so maybe this actually has a chance.

 

40 minutes ago, Holko said:

Why the fuck does everything have to have this dull gray wash over everything? Why can't we have real colours?

 

Looks more colourful to me than the original Alien.

[Tallguy 6,640]

The shot of messes of face huggers was something.

[Edmilson 11,439]

Yeah and the movie is not even Hulu exclusive anymore... is it?

[tomsmoviemadness 4,580]

Benjamin Wallfisch doing the score

[tomsmoviemadness 4,580]

Music by Benjamin Wallfisch.

[Mr. Hooper 7,644]

Looks like it's back to basics, and there's supposed to be considerable gore. I'm actually looking forward to this one.

[Edmilson 11,439]

So no Roque Baños? 

 

I really liked his Evil Dead score. And the fact that he worked with Alvarez in all of his movies may indicate that this was studio and/or producer mandated, kinda similar to Giacchino instead of Fernando Velázquez in JW Fallen Kingdom.

[Thor 9,334]

I'm kinda glad it was Wallfisch and not Banos. EVIL DEAD was 11 years ago. If you listen to the majority of Banos' work in the last decade plus, it's like it's been eaten up by various boring, contemporary tropes. Including, and especially, in the thriller genre. The Banos of yesteryear, who played around with Herrmann beautifully, and who delivered one sophisticated orchestral score after the other (GOYA EN BURDEOS, SEGUNDA PIEL, LAS 13 ROSAS etc.) simply isn't around anymore. Or perhaps he is, and he would be awakened by an ALIEN project, who knows, but I feel like Wallfisch is a safer bet in this day and age.

 

By the way, when I posted the trailer in this thread, I only saw Jay's casting news ahead of me, didn't see NOF posting about it before me. Something wacked up happened there. In any case, can we PLEASE change the headline?

[Andy 6,899]

Now that’s how you do a trailer.  

2 hours ago, Edmilson said:

Yeah and the movie is not even Hulu exclusive anymore... is it?

Looks like it’s exclusively on theaters. 
 

[Richard P 5,074]

My main experience of Wallfish is The Invisible Man which simultaneously has some really effective emotional/psychological moments with strings and electronics, and also the most literal nail on chalkboard action scoring that would make most fans here of traditional orchestral music vomit.

 

If he can minimise the latter and continue some of that inspiration with what looks like a very atmosperic and tense film, this could be good. Although I'm in the minority club that really likes what Streitenfeld and Kurzel came up with, so I look forward to this sort of scoring.

[Imperivm 255]

Personally I was rooting for composers like Marco Beltrami or Christopher Young... them doing their best efforts on an Alien movie is my dream score.

As for Wallfisch I liked his music for A Cure for Wellness, but I think he went a lot more bombastic later on and I didn't really listen to much of him.

[Stark 835]

Wallfisch has a number of horror scores that are far better than the majority of modern horror scores, so I’m excited for this.

[Jay 44,752]

 

 

[Edmilson 11,439]

Time to change the name of the thread, I think. The movie is going to theaters and not direct to Hulu.

[Luke Skywalker 2,291]

I just read no Roque Baños

[Xander Harris 8,894]

How'd you like a trip to Romulus?

[A24 4,997]

The poster for the TV series, fan made or not, is way better.

[tomsmoviemadness 4,580]

New trailer!

Looks very good

 

 

[A24 4,997]

I dunno, it's all very deja-vu.

[Thor 9,334]

Looks very tense still, so it remains the film I look forward to the most this year. But still worried that it doesn't have more of its own visual style, as all the previous films have had. Instead, it references what's come before, in a slightly more run-of-the-mill look. But time will tell!

[crocodile 9,483]

I would love a decent Alien movie. But not holding my breath. It has been 32 years since the last interesting/distinctive one and 38 years since a really good one. It's safe to say the odds are bad.

 

Karol

[Thor 9,334]

We can debate the merits of ALIEN: RESSURECTION, PROMETHEUS and ALIEN: COVENANT (I love them all!), but they're definitely all distinctive!

[GerateWohl 6,362]

At least the evil dead remake was quite good. So, let's see.

And again an opportunity to watch an Alien movie at the cinema. 

[Nick1Ø66 7,634]

If the film itself lives up to this excellent trailer (which is far from a given), this has the potential to be the best "Alien" film since Aliens. At a minimum, at least they're trying to make the xeno actually look terrifying again.

[Imperivm 255]

My impression of the trailer is that there's great production value. I'm disappointed that the trailer shows many deja-vu / references, I hope it's just a marketing ploy and that the film will actually be more inventive (and definitely there is potential for that, seeing some of the elements present). Honestly, as long as it's not utter crap, I think I'm going to enjoy it to some measure. I have positives to say about all Alien films so far, even the ones I disliked the most. I just hope that Wallfisch will do a good work, like A Cure for Wellness. Honestly I would have hoped for Beltrami, I think he'd suit like a glove for this one.

[A24 4,997]

[badbu 186]

Wallfisch’s score for „The invisible Man“ was amazing! 

[Mr. Hooper 7,644]

8 hours ago, A24 said:

I'm assuming it's more for the "bloody content" than the "language"... That is, I'm hoping.

[Naïve Old Fart 12,509]

It better stay the fuck outta my way, I can tell you that.

[Mr. Hooper 7,644]

[Naïve Old Fart 12,509]

"I can get you off. Maybe not the ship..."

[tomsmoviemadness 4,580]

New featurette

 

 

[Jay 44,752]

 

[Yavar Moradi 4,094]

On 14/06/2024 at 9:31 AM, Mr. Hooper said:

 

[Jay 44,752]

 

[Jay 44,752]

Just watched the new trailer and I think I'm less interested in the movie now than I was before.

 

I guess I'll just stick to the original 2 classic films forever and try to forget how the executives at Fox and now Disney ruined the franchise

[Richard P 5,074]

I was never going to see it in the first place, but that trailer hasn't made me want to see it more. Just a load of teenagers running around with some aliens on the loose.

 

Hopefully Wallfisch's score will have something interesting and not just banging and crashing.

[tomsmoviemadness 4,580]

 

 

[Naïve Old Fart 12,509]

On 19/07/2024 at 3:07 PM, Richard Penna said:

 Just a load of teenagers running around with some aliens on the loose.

 

... as opposed to a bunch of adults running around, with some aliens on the loose 

Honestly, that's all the Alien films are: will they?/won't they?

[A24 4,997]

At least the first one didn't feel like a shoot 'em up movie. 

 

 

 

 

[Naïve Old Fart 12,509]

It felt more like a sniper movie. The second one wisely avoided that, but nearly drowned in its own testosterone.

Three attempted to get back to the "haunted house" of one, while adding a spiritual element, and, depending on what you see/hear, was, either a bold attempt to recapture the atmosphere of one, or a huge pile of shite.

I've no idea four was all about.

[Andy 6,899]

26 minutes ago, Naïve Old Fart said:

The second one mostly drowned in its own testosterone. Mostly.

But it balanced themes of Motherhood and girl power pretty nicely I thought. 

[Edmilson 11,439]

Unpopular opinion alert: I like all 4 Alien movies. To various degrees, of course, and yeah the first two are unbeatable, but I think there's something to admire on Alien raised to the cube and the fourth one. I like how the third is a Biblical parable for nerds with lots of Christian allegories and the fourth is watchable. Not great, but there's worse ways of spending two hours.

 

I hate the first AvP, never saw the second, and as for the prequels, I dunno... It's been years since I watched them, maybe I should give them another chance.

[Mr. Hooper 7,644]

1 hour ago, Naïve Old Fart said:

It felt more like a sniper movie. The second one wisely avoided that, but nearly drowned in its own testosterone.

 

Even the women! But I love it!

 

 

39 minutes ago, Edmilson said:

I hate the first AvP

It's a guilty pleasure for me. I really like the lead and the relationship she forms with the predator. It was something new.
 

 

[A24 4,997]

1 hour ago, Naïve Old Fart said:

I've no idea four was all about.

 

I look at it as a Métal Hurlant comic book trip. 

[Andy 6,899]

That’s precisely how I view Prometheus. 

[Thor 9,334]

2 hours ago, Edmilson said:

Unpopular opinion alert: I like all 4 Alien movies.

 

Not unpopular to me. I like everything that's ever been produced in the ALIEN franchise, to one degree or another.

[GerateWohl 6,362]

2 hours ago, Edmilson said:

Unpopular opinion alert: I like all 4 Alien movies. To various degrees, of course, and yeah the first two are unbeatable, but I think there's something to admire on Alien raised to the cube and the fourth one. I like how the third is a Biblical parable for nerds with lots of Christian allegories and the fourth is watchable. Not great, but there's worse ways of spending two hours.

Alien 4 for me is one of the smartest sequels I can think of for a movie series that actually already ended. It just had the wrong director. Jeunet's movie suffers from the same issue like Besson's Valerian and The Fifth Element. Seems some French directors somehow can't take science fiction serious. It's like they find it silly and ridiculous and feel the need to show this here and there in the movie.

[Thor 9,334]

16 minutes ago, GerateWohl said:

Alien 4 for me is one of the smartest sequels I can think of for a movie series that actually already ended. It just had the wrong director. Jeunet's movie suffers from the same issue like Besson's Valerian and The Fifth Element. Seems some French directors somehow can't take science fiction serious. It's like they find it silly and ridiculous and feel the need to show this here and there in the movie.

 

That was my feeling too, back in '97. But now I've come to appreciate it as a Jeunet auteur piece in and of itself, ripe with his fascination for the burlesque (like you also see in DELICATESSEN, CITY OF LOST CHILDREN etc.). I'm a fan of it now. Unlike most other franchises, all films in the saga are blessed with auteur stamps (they use the very basic premise and create their own art out of it), and this is no exception.