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Title: | Alien: Romulus |
Director: | Fede Alvarez |
Writers: | Fede Alvarez; Rodo Sayagues |
Producers: | Fede Alvarez; Brent O'Connor; Tom Moran; Michael Pruss; Elizabeth Cantillon; Walter Hill; Ridley Scott |
Composer: | Benjamin Wallfisch |
Cinematography: | Galo Olivares |
Editors: | Jake Roberts |
Production | |
Production company: | Brandywine Productions Scott Free Productions |
Distributed by: | 20th Century Studios |
Released: | August 14th, 2024 |
Rating: | R |
Running time: | 119 min. |
Country: | USA |
Language: | English |
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Alien: Romulus is an American feature film of the science fiction and horror genres. It is the ninth installment in the over-arching Aliens film series, which includes the two cross-over Predator films and is the seventh installment in what is considered the canonical Aliens film series. It was directed by Fede Alvarez with a script written by Alvarez and Rodo Sayagues. It was produced by Brandywine Productions and Scott Free Productions and distributed through 20th Century Studios. It premiered in Los Angeles, California on August 12th, 2024. Its international premiere date was on August 14th, 2024. It was released nationwide in the United States on August 16th, 2024. The film stars Cailee Spaeny as Rain - a disgruntled Weyland-Yutani employee who sees an opportunity to escape from a life of drudge. Co-starring with Spaeny are her character's colleagues Archie Renaux as Tyler, Isabela Merced as Kay, Spike Fearn as Bjorn, Aileen Wu as Navarro and David Jonsson as Andy the android.
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Cast[]
Actor | Role |
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Cailee Spaeny | Rain Carradine |
David Jonsson | Andy |
Archie Renaux | Tyler Harrison |
Isabela Merced | Kay |
Spike Fearn | Bjorn |
Aileen Wu | Navarro |
Rosie Ede | WY officer |
Soma Simon | 10-year old punk #1 |
Bence Okeke | 10-year old punk #2 |
Viktor Orizu | 10-year old punk #3 |
Robert Bobroczkyi | Offspring |
Trevor Newlin | Xenomorph |
Annemarie Griggs | MU/TH/UR voice |
Daniel Betts | Rook |
Notes & Trivia[]
- The Aliens franchise was created by director Ridley Scott and screenplay writer Dan O'Bannon. It was first brought to life in the 1979 sci-fi/horror movie Alien, which spawned multiple sequels, prequels, and crossover films. Other notable directors in the franchise include James Cameron, David Fincher, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, and Paul W.S. Anderson.
- The tagline for this film is "They went looking for a new life. It found them." Another often used tagline in teaser trailers is "In space, no one can hear you". This is a play on the tagline "In space, no one can hear you scream", which was used in the original Alien.
- There are a total of fourteen credited cast members in this film.
- Principal filming on Alien: Romulus began on March 9th, 2023. The movie was filmed in Budapest, Hungary. Shooting concluded on July 3rd, 2023. [1][2]
- Alien: Romulus grossed $42,003,361 during its domestic opening over the August 14th premiere through the weekend, $18,083,803 earned on Friday evening. It had a total domestic box office of $97,603,638. It earned an additional $217,200,000 internationally for a total worldwide gross of $314,803,638. It ranked at #1 at the box office beating out Deadpool & Wolverine, which came in at #2 in its third week. It was screened in 3,885 theaters. [3][4]
- As of September, 2024, Alien: Romulus has a Starmeter rating of 7.4 out of 10 on the Internet Movie Database based on more than 95,000 user votes. In the United States, 30,000 users gave the film a score of 8, which comprises 31.8% of the total voting pool. 9.4% of the voting pool gave the film a perfect score of 10, which comprises more than 9,000 users. Only 1.3% of the voting pool gave the film a score of 1.
- On the movie review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, Alien: Romulus holds a certified "Fresh" Tomatometer score of 80% based on 364 approved critic reviews. Among the 66 top critics, the film holds a 73%. Of the 364 critic reviews, 291 gave the film a positive rating with 73 giving it a negative rating, averaging 6.90 out of 10. The movie has an audience score of Popcornmeter score of 82% amongst all voters, based on more than 10,000 user ratings, averaging 4.1 out of 5.
- On Metacritic, the film holds a Metascore of 64 out of 100 based on fifty-seven posted critic reviews, indicating generally favorable reviews. It has 35 positive reviews, making up 61% of the total, 3 negative reviews at 5% of the total, and 19 mixed reviews, totaling 33% of the total. The movie has a user score of 7.4 based on 703 user ratings.
- On Letterboxd, Alien: Romulus has a weighted average review score of 3.66 based on 497,711 user ratings.
- The events of this film take place in between those chronicled in Alien from 1979 and Aliens from 1986. The movie starts on February 9th, 2142 with the majority of the film taking place 170 days later after July 9th. This movie takes place twenty-years after Alien and thirty-seven years before Aliens. The 2014 video game Alien: Isolation, which may not necessarily be considered part of canon continuity, takes place in 2137, five years before the events of this film. Alien: Romulus takes place fifty-three years after the events from Prometheus and eighteen years after the events of Alien: Covenant.
- The title of this film is taken from Romulus, who was the first king of Rome and reigned from 753-716 BCE. In the film, Romulus refers to one quadrant of a bi-sectioned space station called Renaissance. The second module is called the Remus, which was the name of Romulus' twin brother according to Roman mythology.
- A plot point in the film refers to the "black goo" from Prometheus, which is now identified as the Prometheus strain. It is the substance created by the Engineers and can be found in the DNA of the Xenomorphs.
- The character of Rook, who is an android, is visually based on the look of Ash from Alien as originally played by actor Ian Holm. Reproducing Ash's design implies that entire models of android utilized the same physicality. Computer generated imagery was used to replicate Ian Holm's face with Daniel Betts serving as the physical template and voice work. Sir Ian Holm passed away on June 19th, 2020 at the age of 88.
- The Xenomorph/Human hybrid seen at the end of the film bears physical characteristics similar to that of the Engineers, which would make sense as their biology was comprised of the Prometheus strain as well. This being was not a CGI creation, but was portrayed by a Romanian former college basketball player named Robert Bobroczkyi, who stands at 7'7". The Offspring is a concept that was first devised as the character dubbed the Newborn from Alien: Resurrection, which was a genetically created being culled from cloned human and Xenomorph cells.
Recommendations[]
2020s Sci-Fi
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Media
The World of Aliens
Aliens miscellaneous
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References[]
- ↑ IMDB; Alien: Romulus (2024); Filming & Production.
- ↑ ComingSoon.net; "Alien: Romulus Wraps Production, Director Fede Álvarez Celebrates". Archived from the original on July 4, 2023. Retrieved July 4, 2023.
- ↑ Box Office Mojo; Alien: Romulus (2024); Title Summary. All Releases.
- ↑ Box Office Mojo; Domestic Box Office for Aug 16, 2024.
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