ALIEN: ROMULUS Director Fede Álvarez Shares An Awesome Pitch For A New ALIEN VS. PREDATOR Movie

ALIEN: ROMULUS Director Fede Álvarez Shares An Awesome Pitch For A New ALIEN VS. PREDATOR Movie

Following Prey's success, it looks like Alien: Romulus will also be a hit. Now, the latter's director, Fede Álvarez, has shared an awesome pitch for a new Alien vs. Predator movie. Read on for details...

By JoshWilding - Aug 17, 2024 12:08 PM EST
Filed Under: Alien
Source: SFFGazette.com

Alien: Romulus is being praised by fans and critics alike, and assuming it performs well at the box office (which looks likely to be the case), we'd imagine a sequel will soon be a priority for the Disney-owned 20th Century Studios. 

The studio previously rebooted the Predator franchise with Prey, a movie that found huge success on Hulu and will next head to theaters with both a sequel and spin-off titled Badlands (with the latter likely to star Elle Fanning).

Both franchises spent years languishing in mediocrity thanks to lousy reboots, sequels, prequels...and crossovers. Neither Alien vs. Predator movie was particularly good (despite being long-awaited by sci-fi fans) but could another eventually follow? 

Talking to Deadline (via SFFGazette.com) to promote Alien: Romulus, filmmaker Fede Álvarez suggested he and Prey helmer Dan Trachtenberg may eventually team up to pit the Xenomorphs against the Yautja.

"Maybe it’s something I have to co-direct with my buddy Dan," Álvarez suggested. "Maybe we should do like Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez did with Dusk Till Dawn. I’ll direct a half, and he’ll direct another half."

"From the directors of Alien: Romulus and Prey," sure has a nice ring to it, don't you think?

Despite not faring well with critics, Alien vs. Predator made $177.4 million worldwide in 2004 and the sequel, Aliens vs. Predators: Requiem, made $130.2 million worldwide in 2007.

If this does happen, then it shouldn't be for a very long time. It's early days for both franchises and after so many disappointments, it's important for them to both be established before rushing to a crossover which pits them against each other. 

You can hear more from Álvarez in the video below.

The sci-fi/horror-thriller takes the phenomenally successful Alien franchise back to its roots: While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe.

The film stars Cailee Spaeny (Priscilla), David Jonsson (Agatha Christie’s Murder is Easy), Archie Renaux (Shadow and Bone), Isabela Merced (The Last of Us), Spike Fearn (Aftersun), Aileen Wu. Fede Alvarez (Evil Dead) directs from a screenplay he wrote with frequent collaborator Rodo Sayagues (Don’t Breathe 2) based on characters created by Dan O’Bannon and Ronald Shusett.

Alien: Romulus is produced by Ridley Scott (Napoleon), who directed the original Alien and produced and directed the series’ entries Prometheus and Alien: Covenant, Michael Pruss (Boston Strangler), and Walter Hill (Alien), with Fede Alvarez, Elizabeth Cantillon (Charlie’s Angels), Brent O’Connor (Bullet Train), and Tom Moran (Unstoppable) serving as executive producers. 

The movie is now playing in theaters.

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bobevanz
bobevanz - 8/17/2024, 12:09 PM
Let him do it. I love his Evil Dead remake, and his Alien movie actually FELT like an Alien movie. People want to compare apples to oranges, and while there are some similarities to other movies, what they do in this is miles better. Like the stuff from Resurrection, that movie sucks ass but the homage is better in this. Yada Yada go see it! In Dolby Cinema or Imax
bobevanz
bobevanz - 8/17/2024, 12:11 PM
AvP movies are ass, Prometheus had a chance but fell on it's face. Covenant is literally the worst Alien movie. Anyone who says Romulus is bad, they're full of shit. Top three for me, a real Alien fan since the beginning of time
McMurdo
McMurdo - 8/17/2024, 12:51 PM
@bobevanz - Covenant is better than Romulus because it isn't a Force Awakens akin remake of the first film nor a remake of the Resurrection final act. Covenant has some characters who do dumb things similarly to Prometheus but Prometheus is filled with scientists who do everything to act in the opposite way scientists would act in such circumstances. Covenant was a film with colonizers/couples (which was new) and it has David.

Romulus is a hollow, shallow film that gets by on one well drawn character who regresses in the final act for no real reason but to not have to explain why Andy isn't following his company protocol. It did everything wrong in the final half of the film.


I can watch Covenant again and appreciate aspects of it. Why would I ever rewatch Romulus when I can watch Alien or Aliens and get an actual experience with characters who feel real that I actually give a shit about. I wanted the Aliens to kill everyone of the Romulus characters. Bjorn is insufferable from his first line of dialogue. The ex boyfriend is a nobody character who is played by a bad actor. Merced's pregnant character is telegraphed. Rain was about as uninspired as it gets. This film just doesn't do anything interesting.
lazlodaytona
lazlodaytona - 8/17/2024, 5:07 PM
@bobevanz - dude. I'm with you.

One of the only things I'm baffled by either franchise is why does the film "Predators" with Adrien Brody never get any love? It was a unique idea that the predators brought the most dangerous humans on earth to them on their own game planet.
Shmokey20
Shmokey20 - 8/17/2024, 9:01 PM
@bobevanz - Agreed, Romulus is Top 3 for me as well!
dracula
dracula - 8/17/2024, 12:14 PM
Now only if someone could do for Terminator what these two are doing for Alien and Predator
lazlodaytona
lazlodaytona - 8/17/2024, 5:08 PM
@dracula - they will. .oh, they will.
JustAWaffle
JustAWaffle - 8/18/2024, 12:30 AM
@dracula - I say leave it alone for 10-15 years and let a dozen groups of writers compete for the most competent story.

But they won’t and the slow death will continue.

Terminator is in a nursing home, and the kids don’t want to visit very often. They’ll poke their heads in to see how they’re doing, but then realize nothing’s changed or only gotten a little better or a little worse. They’re always rattling on about the good old days, by which we all agree, but there’s no going back on the current timelines at this point.

I just head canon 1-Salvation and call it a day.
Toecutter
Toecutter - 8/18/2024, 5:37 AM
@dracula - I've been saying since Terminator Salvation came out. They need to bring it back to basics and make a low-budget sci-fi thriller that emulates the 1st one. As much as I love Terminator 2, I hate that all of the sequels are a rip-off of that one. The Guest is basically what I envision as an excellent modern Terminator movie.
dracula
dracula - 8/18/2024, 9:40 AM
@Toecutter - First thing they need to do is drop Arnold
Toecutter
Toecutter - 8/18/2024, 9:49 AM
@dracula - That's another thing I've been saying; they have already established that there are multiple Terminators. I wonder why they keep returning to Arnold or why every fan casts bodybuilders for the role. Get a good actor who can pull off playing a creepy cyborg, and you're all set.
harryba11zack
harryba11zack - 8/17/2024, 12:15 PM
keep it like the original dark horse comic run or like the 2001 avp2 game, set in the future and no earth bullshit
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McMurdo
McMurdo - 8/17/2024, 12:53 PM
@harryba11zack - it's unhinged that Disney owns Dark Horse and has access to all of those old Alien comics with stories that are actually good and aren't just copy and paste Alien/Aliens narratives and yet Disney fails to utilize any of them for adaptation. Instead we get this garbage that feels like expensive fan fiction. Disney just sucks the live out of every well known IP time and time again.
SuperCat
SuperCat - 8/17/2024, 12:21 PM
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SouthernNeo
SouthernNeo - 8/17/2024, 12:44 PM
@SuperCat - LMAO!!!
dragon316
dragon316 - 8/17/2024, 1:08 PM
@SuperCat - that’s good gif funny
SuperCat
SuperCat - 8/17/2024, 1:18 PM
@dragon316 SouthernNeo - :D
Nightmare
Nightmare - 8/17/2024, 1:55 PM
@SuperCat - That's one ugly muthafukka.
SuperCat
SuperCat - 8/17/2024, 2:11 PM
@Nightmare - LOL! Right!
lazlodaytona
lazlodaytona - 8/17/2024, 5:09 PM
@SuperCat - smash that little b1tch in the head
SuperCat
SuperCat - 8/17/2024, 5:31 PM
@lazlodaytona - LOL! That's cold!
McMurdo
McMurdo - 8/17/2024, 12:39 PM
Fede Alvarez' Evil Dead was a movie that got by on gimmick gore and shock horror. It had a bad script with idiot characters doing idiot things. Alien Romulus is the same. He has made one good movie thus far in his filmography...Don't Breathe. He's not by any means a special filmmaker but he's got a good eye for shooting film. Dude shouldn't write his own scripts though.
Nightmare
Nightmare - 8/17/2024, 1:57 PM
@McMurdo - Evil Dead was pretty much fan service too. The scene where she loses her arm and the opening were pretty unnecessary. I get the feeling that those that love that movie also hate Evil Dead Rise. Interesting parallels.
Alucard28
Alucard28 - 8/17/2024, 12:43 PM
IMO not every franchise should have crossover events.
99OPTIMISTPRIME
99OPTIMISTPRIME - 8/17/2024, 12:49 PM
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I wouldn't wanna see them team-up. We've already seen them fight against each other. Also, neither of them make good protagonists.🤣
dragon316
dragon316 - 8/17/2024, 1:10 PM
As long it’s r rated and movie is dark hard make things out unlike sequel hard to see
ModHaterSLADE
ModHaterSLADE - 8/17/2024, 1:14 PM
I'd see it for the gore alone, this man makes some damn good horror movies.
Arthorious
Arthorious - 8/17/2024, 1:19 PM
The AVP arcade was fun
AllsGood
AllsGood - 8/17/2024, 1:25 PM
Who would have ever thought Disney would own the Rights of Aliens and Predator franchises. Making great movies :)

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Humperdoo
Humperdoo - 8/18/2024, 10:14 AM
@AllsGood - Great? LMAO Generic fan service is more like it. Disney has no original ideas.
AllsGood
AllsGood - 8/18/2024, 10:24 AM
@Humperdoo - ‘Alien: Romulus’ Solidifies Disney’s Box Office Rebound

After struggling in recent years, Hollywood’s biggest movie company has now delivered four hits in a row, dominating the summer with a 42 percent market share.
Blergh
Blergh - 8/17/2024, 1:40 PM
I loved the first AvP, it may have been PG13 but the perfect movie to get my 9 year old ass into the theatre and invested in the franchise.
I grew to love Alien thanks to AvP.

So I say do it Fede
TheRogue
TheRogue - 8/17/2024, 4:40 PM
@Blergh - AVP is a good movie. I dont care anyone says.
AllsGood
AllsGood - 8/17/2024, 1:44 PM
Alien: Romulus is Major Box Office hit in China.

Unexpected Smash Hit Overseas, with it looking to open in the $60 million range, giving the horror sequel a $100 million plus international opening.

Notably, the film is playing to killer business in China, with it looking at a $20 million plus.
SonOfAGif
SonOfAGif - 8/17/2024, 1:50 PM
Alien vs. Predator has potential but I think it would need a Marvel Studios world building approach. Prey was excellent and Romulus was really good. They are momentum. I think an Alien vs. Predator crossover can work if they follow this formula:

Each Predator/Prey film follows a Yautja hunting a specific target. And when that target survives, They abduct and put them in a cryostasis. The Alien vs. Predator film has to be set in the future against Colonial Marines in the mid 2100s. The Predator is hunting a specific Marine on a space station but that space station has a live Xenomorph in stasis to study. It escapes and we have an Alien vs. predator vs. Marines movie. And the movie ends with the Yautja collecting the surviving Marine and reveals the entire collection of survivors including a Xenomorph in stasis to use in a tournament.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 8/17/2024, 1:55 PM
Quentin Tarantino did not co-direct Dusk Till Dawn.

He's thinking of Grindhouse, or maybe Four Rooms. Tarantino even guest directed a scene in Sin City. But he only wrote and starred in Dusk Till Dawn, Rodriguez was the director.

Anyway, an AvP film is more his speed I think. Then we only have to compare him to Paul WS Anderson. Because he can not compare to Scott, Cameron or Fincher or even Jeunet.
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