Fede Álvarez and Rodo Sayagues have finished writing the script for the sequel to last year’s Alien: Romulus, but Álvarez won’t direct this time.
We just finished the script, actually, for a sequel for Romulus, but I’m gonna pass the torch on this one as director.
the filmmaker told TooFab last night on the red carpet at Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights in Hollywood
Álvarez will produce the new movie with original Alien director Ridley Scott. They are now looking for a new director.
I think that’s usually what has happened, except for Ridley, filmmakers come, you make one and you pass the baton to the next one. But we wrote the story because we really love what we started with Romulus and we want to continue the story. We love the story, and now we just want to find a director that really wants to go for the jugular. I want to work on a personal project that me and my co-writer, we’ve been keeping on the back burner for a while and we feel it’s the right time to go and work on an original. But I can’t tell you anything about it.
Álvarez said, Álvarez plans to direct an original film he wrote with Sayagues, He adds
Cailee Spaeny and David Jonsson, who played colonist Rain Carradine and her synthetic brother Andy in Alien: Romulus, are expected to return for the sequel.
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.
Álvarez previously teased
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