ALIEN: ROMULUS Director Fede Alvarez Shares His Influences For The Film
Director Fede Alvarez (Evil Dead) has been working on a new film in the Alien franchise titled Alien: Romulus, and he recently shared a collection of books that inspired him and influenced the upcoming film. As you might have guessed, it’s all Alien content.
The books he shared include The Art of Alien: Isolation; Aliens: The Set Photography; Giger's Alien, The Art of Ron Cobb; The Making of Alien; Alien Vault; Alien: The Blueprints; Aliens: The Original Years vol. 1 (a comics anthology from Marvel); Alien Covenant: David's Drawings; and Aliens: Colonial Marines Technical Manual.
The photo of the books came with the following note: "Some of my bibliography when developing my Alien film. Did I missed anything?"
This next film tells a standalone story in the Alien universe, and it follows a “group of young people on a distant world who find themselves in a confrontation with the most terrifying life form in the universe.”
The movie is “unconnected” to the previous films, and the story is set in another corner of the universe. The pitch that Alvarez initially made is said to be a “really good story with a bunch of characters you haven’t seen before.”
The movie stars Cailee Spaeny and Isabela Merced and they are joined by David Jonsson (Industry), Archie Renaux (Shadow and Bone), Spike Fearn (Aftersun), and newcomer Aileen Wu.
Alvarez is directing from his script written by Rodo Sayagues. Ridley Scott is also a producer on the movie along with Michael Pruss (Boston Strangler) for Scott Free, with Brent O’Connor (Bullet Train), Elizabeth Cantillon (Persuasion) and Tom Moran (The Donut King) serving as executive producers.