Alien: Romulus Director Fede Alvarez Will Produce But Not Direct the Sequel

Fede Alvarez volition not nonstop the sequel to his deed 2024 movie Alien: Romulus. The hunt is connected for a caller filmmaker to helm the sequel.

According to TooFab, Alvarez volition stay onboard the task arsenic a producer, He besides co-wrote the screenplay with Rodo Sayagues. TooFab chatted with Alvarez connected Thursday astatine Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights.

"We conscionable finished the script, actually, for a sequel for Romulus. But I'm gonna walk the torch connected this 1 arsenic director," Alvarez said. "I'm going to nutrient it, with Ridley Scott, we're gonna nutrient it unneurotic and we're close present trying to find a caller filmmaker to travel in."

"I deliberation that's usually what has happened, but for Ridley, filmmakers come, you marque 1 and you walk the baton to the adjacent one," the filmmaker added.

"But we wrote the communicative due to the fact that we truly emotion what we started with Romulus and we privation to proceed the story. We emotion the communicative and present we conscionable privation to find a manager that truly wants to spell for the jugular."

Cailee Spaeny and David Jonsson are expected to reprise their respective roles from Alien: Romulus for the sequel, which volition beryllium released by 20th Century Studios.

IGN’s Tom Jorgensen was a large instrumentality of Alien: Romulus, scoring it an 8 retired of 10 successful his review:

“Helped on by a talented ensemble of young actors and reference-quality accumulation design, Alien: Romulus’s back-to-basics attack to blockbuster fearfulness boils everything fans emotion astir the tonally-fluid franchise into 1 film, and it’s 1 that you’re going to request to commencement making clip for the adjacent clip you program connected marathoning Alien and Aliens.”

Although fans volition person to hold awhile to spot a Romulus sequel, there’s inactive plentifulness of the Alien franchise to bask these days.

Be definite to work our Alien: Earth, Episode 5 review, larn however Alien: Earth’s Morrow shares immoderate similarities with Ripley and wherefore The Eye is the existent leader of Alien: Earth.