‘It’s great’: The next Alien has been confirmed by the original film’s director and promises to be remarkable!

On August 14, 2024, Alien Romulus, the new chapter in the Xenomorph saga, will hit theaters to give us a cold sweat. 45 years after Ridley Scott’s first installment, the franchise returns to its roots with a new feature film by Fede Alvarez (Evil Dead, Don’t Breathe).

After the commercial failure of Alien Covenant in 2017, the Brit abandoned the gooey monsters in favor of the Gucci and Napoleon biopic. For many fans, the fact that Ridley Scott is passing the baton to horror great Fede Alvarez is a very good thing.

The director knew how to pull off the Evil Dead saga in cinema, we can trust him to relaunch the Alien saga. Will he be able to rebuild his reputation after two disappointing episodes (Prometheus and Covenant)?

A traumatic scene?

Isabella Merced, the main actress of Alien Romulus, is sure of this. he asked The Hollywood ReporterThe 22-year-old young woman promised several very bloody series, including a particularly traumatic one.

“When we shot certain scenes, Fede Alvarez gave me an iPad on which he was watching video feedback. He had access to the film on that tablet.”– says the actor.

Everyone behind me looked away. No one looked at the iPad anymore because it was so disgusting.

A curious Isabella Merced asks the filmmaker if she can watch some clips from the feature film.

“I was holding a tablet and about ten people gathered around me to watch me. I started a scene where I was acting and everyone behind me looked away. No one looked at the iPad that much anymore. It was disgusting. And I was. That’s how I look at it: It’s so exciting! “– confides the actor.

Blood and guts!

Isabella Merced hasn’t given us any more hints about the scene, but knowing Fede Alvarez, we can’t doubt his penchant for sparing us nothing in terms of horror. Will the sequence in question be as traumatic as the first movie’s “The Chest,” when the creature stabs John Hart in the stomach? Answer in theaters on August 14, 2025.

In episode 9 of Alien, “A group of young people from a distant world encounter the world’s most terrifying life form”We read in the synopsis of the upcoming fiction.

A viscous and sticky xenomorph is destined to melt our little army! So Romulus must return to the origins of the saga, in the manner of a predator, reconnecting with the tone of his illustrious boss, the predator.

Fede Alvarez, a guest at the 2023 DGA Latino Summit in Los Angeles on October 17, revealed that he showed the film to Ridley Scott and that the latter loved it. “He came into the room and said: Fede, what can I say? it is wonderful.”.

If the fangs and fangs of this mythical pop culture monster traumatized you, you might shudder because no one in the movie theater will hear you scream!