It is wild to assume that there was a time when the preliminary facehugger design of “Alien” was greater and grosser than the one we ended up with. Nonetheless, this footage, together with the teaser trailer, proves that typically the smaller issues are, the scarier they are often. Only a glimpse on the tempo Alvarez’s remote-controlled pet is transferring reignites the worry felt when James Cameron left Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) and Newt (Carrie Hens) alone with a pair of those parasites in “Aliens,” which is comprehensible, on condition that the crew that labored on that movie are again on the creature manufacturing unit this time round as nicely.
As revealed by star Cailee Spaeny in a November 2023 interview with Selection, who additionally let slip that “Romulus” would happen between “Alien” and “Aliens,” “The identical individuals who constructed these xenomorphs truly got here on and constructed ours.” Married with the cushioned partitions paying homage to the Nostromo in Ridley Scott’s “Alien,” it is clear within the trailer that Alvarez is establishing an acid-soaked love letter to the franchise. We’ll see if it is price bursting into (ideally not by way of our chests) when “Alien: Romulus” sneaks into theaters on August 16.