The box office success of Alien: Romulus last year has given the franchise a fresh dose of new life, and director Fede Alvarez is currently hard at work on cracking a sequel. Speaking with Empire Online this week, Alvarez provides an update on Alien: Romulus 2. “Rodo [Sayagues] and I are working on that right […]
The box office success of Alien: Romulus last year has given the franchise a fresh dose of new life, and director Fede Alvarez is currently hard at work on cracking a sequel.
Speaking with Empire Online this week, Alvarez provides an update on Alien: Romulus 2. “Rodo [Sayagues] and I are working on that right now,” Alvarez tells Empire.
“We’re excited about where it can go. We’ve almost checked all of the boxes of things that I want to see [in Romulus], and brought back a lot of the things I hadn’t seen in a while. Wherever we go now, we can go into uncharted waters,” Alvarez continues.
As 20th Century Studios head Steve Asbell noted last year, a sequel to Alien: Romulus would likely follow the characters played by Cailee Spaeny and David Jonsson in Alien: Romulus, who survived the harrowing events of last year’s movie. Spaeny’s heroine Rain Carradine is essentially the Ripley of Alien: Romulus while Jonsson’s Andy is her android brother.
“I think it’ll be so exciting to go with characters you know from this movie, to a place in the Alien franchise that we’ve never been before, and to discover things that you’ve never seen before,” Alvarez further teases in his chat with Empire Online.
“The mistake usually with sequels is to make them because you can, and because of the success of Romulus, we definitely can make a sequel,” the filmmaker also notes. “But I wouldn’t do it unless we have a really good idea for it, something that’s worthy of the title.”
In other words, a sequel to Romulus from Fede Alvarez isn’t 100% guaranteed, but he’s hard at work trying to make it happen. Stay tuned for more on all things Alien as we learn it.
In the meantime, Disney brings the franchise to the small screen with “Alien: Earth” this year. Last we heard, the first ever Alien television series is coming to FX & Hulu in Summer 2025.
