Alien: What is this unexpected connection between Romulus and one of the most anticipated series of 2025?

Warning – The following article contains spoilers for “Alien: Romulus” and “The Last of Us” Season 2, as it discusses elements of their respective plots. So please continue if you haven’t seen the Fede Alvarez movie or played the game that inspired the HBO series.

Hitting theaters on August 14, Alien: Romulus injects some new blood into Ridley Scott’s sci-fi saga, drawing inspiration from all of his previous opus, which he pays homage to when he’s not following in their footsteps in terms of narrative and storytelling. mythology. But not only films influenced director Fede Alvarez.

If the filmmaker already realized that the video game Alien: Isolation had a big influence on his film, down to the details in the environment that will make those who meet the xenomorph with a controller in hand, another title influenced his film. Opus, much more unexpected, which he revealed on Twitter (or X, but you get the idea). and which revolves around actress Isabelle Merced.

“Fun story: I was playing The Last of Us Part II while writing Alien Romulus”says the director of “Don’t Breathe” to an Internet user who asks him about this topic. “The story of Dina’s pregnancy made me think that Kay was also pregnant. Then I hired Isabella Merced to play Kay. A year later she got the role of Dina in the movie. HBO series. true story “

A funny coincidence for both the director and the actor, who appears in Dora the Explorer and Madame Web, and who admitted that he also played the game to prepare for his role in the second season of its adaptation, which is expected in 2025. on HBO (or MAX in France).

Isabella hopes for Merced that her character’s pregnancy ends better than Kay’s in Alien: Romulus. Which more than 700,000 viewers were able to see in cinemas.