‘Alien’ Returns With First ‘Romulus’ Trailer

In what’s shaping as much as be a giant summer time for back-to-basics film sequels and reboots, we are able to now add Alien: Romulus to the listing.

This new horror movie primarily based on the long-running franchise seems to be extra like Ridley Scott’s authentic Alien than any earlier sequel — and that features the 2 Alien prequels Scott himself made a number of years in the past, Prometheus and Alien: Covenant. Scott additionally produced Romulus, which was directed by Don’t Breathe and Evil Lifeless’s Fede Alvarez.

In what twentieth Century Studios is asking a “again to its roots” method for the collection, Alvarez’s movie is about on a “derelict house station” the place a bunch of astronauts play some quiet card video games, eat house ice cream, and chat about their lives. Okay no, they combat the xenomorph from Alien and plenty of horrible scary stuff occurs.

Watch the primary teaser for the film beneath:

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There may be an evocative new poster for the movie as effectively.

Right here is the brand new movie’s official synopsis:

The sci-fi/horror-thriller takes the phenomenally profitable “Alien” franchise again to its roots: Whereas scavenging the deep ends of a derelict house station, a bunch of younger house colonizers come nose to nose with essentially the most terrifying life type within the universe. The movie stars Cailee Spaeny (“Priscilla”), David Jonsson (“Agatha Christie’s Homicide is Simple”), Archie Renaux (“Shadow and Bone”), Isabela Merced (“The Final of Us”), Spike Fearn (“Aftersun”), Aileen Wu. Fede Alvarez (“Evil Lifeless,” “Don’t Breathe”) directs from a screenplay he wrote with frequent collaborator Rodo Sayagues (“Don’t Breathe 2”) primarily based on characters created by Dan O’Bannon and Ronald Shusett.

Alien: Romulus will open in theaters on August 16. Though earlier studies claimed the film was going straight to Disney’s Hulu streaming service, the trailer and poster make it very clear: Romulus can first be seen “solely in theaters.”