Teaser Trailer

"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,” “Don’t Breathe”) 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."

Wow, those are a lot of names and movies I can't pretend to care about.

So is this a remake, a reboot, a sequel, or just Hollywood being out of ideas again?

Not gonna lie, that last time I cared about Alien was the AvP game from 2010. It is one of the very rare occurrences, where I actually prefer the crossover universe of Alien vs Predator to either of the originals.

So in my book, Aliens are still a prey animal that Predators created and it got out of hand. I watched Prometheus ages ago and just can't get behind the Architect BS and whatnot.

Well... I liked the original Alien films and loved both the first AvP and Prometheus.
However, I hope that this new film introduces something special and unique to the story. I do not want to see another 100 mins of frantic scrambling through dimly lit corridors. That would be way too simple and repetitive to be worthwhile, at least for me.

The older I get the more I appreciate practical effects and SFX makeups in movies over CGI .

Aliens dark descent had a pretty decent intro, such a shame i could not find a (quick) save button during that on and on going tutorial. . . It might have saved the game from a very coldblooded deinstallation process. "Like cmon, i'm a grown up, there are multiple reasons that can force stop gaming unexpectedly throughout any day"

I slightly remember Prometheus too. . . I mean i remember a bald Charlize Theron, but nothing beyond that little fact (which maybe wrong too) I also remember Charlize Theron in a multitude of weird sci fi flicks. . . and that Chanel commercial. . .
<sighs

Zombie film.....joke implied

There hasn't been a really good Alien movie since 1986, so I'm rather sceptical. And I'm probably more forgiving of the franchise than some people - I actually think Alien 3 was, if one manages to get over the infuriating, infamous begining, actually pretty decent, and I quite enjoy the first AvP movie, but in a very "turn off your brain an watch fun action" sort of way. Also, I don't really think of the AvP movies as part of either franchise as much as a separate thing of it's own.

Edit: to be entirely fair, I have to admit I have never seen Covenant. But after Prometheus... come on. There comes a time when even I have to give up on a franchise, and I watched Highlander: The Source. So I guess there is a chance Covenant was actually brilliant... but I really, really doubt it.

It's set between the first two movies. Prediction: They're being weirdly coy about releasing character names, so my guess is the main actress is playing Amanda Ripley. Basically, it'll steal ideas from Alien: Isolation while pretending to be its own, most likely inferior, thing.

I hope it's a secret Star Trek crossover that reveals Romulus wasn't swallowed by a black hole, and that the Romulans shoot the Alien with a disruptor.

Just read that on IMDB, and the space station looks very much like Sevastapol Station. Frankly Isolation had a REALLY good plot, a film of that would be great

Set between Alien & Aliens. Threads of a link between Covenant and Alien (probably 5 seconds of dialogue or a brief flash on a computer screen or something), but only probably just enough to acknowledge the prequel films in the universe but don't want to indulge in its direction. It sounds & looks like a "safe" sequel film in a well-established franchise. The question will be whether they can resist using those groan-worthy cliches and obvious fan-service recycled lines from other films. I'd say it's going to borrow heavily from Alien Isolation, but likely without Ripley's daughter (or anyone from the previous films) involved.

It might be... passable. I'd go see it in the cinema, if only to tear it to pieces if it's shite. Glad someone else gets a shot at the story, actually. I think involving Ridley Scott again years later was a major mistake, and so would it have if they had involved Cameron - both have lost their touch over the years.

If you want to bin Prometheus for setting up questions without answering them, then you'll want to burn Covenant for continuing not to answer them. But eventually, you'll have to bite the bullet and endure it once. I got it on blu-ray to put alongside the rest of the franchise in my cupboard, but it and Prometheus are so out favour for me they're not going to be watched very often. Alien and Aliens though get watched quite frequently because they're awesome. Alien 3 I like for other reasons, but it's not special.

Covenant is nothing more than giving a deranged android more screen-time to screw over humans. Fassbender is a competent, sometimes brilliant, actor, but there's only so much you can do with playing a deadpan emotionless automaton with a lacklustre script And the gore is next-level for the Alien franchise. It's... well, no other film has made me feel as sick at that one manages to. There's scary and gory while being entertaining, and then there's almost clinical and graphic gore without the fun. Covenant goes for the latter while trying to pretend it's the former. The rest of the cast are merely cannon-fodder; you really don't connect with any of them enough to worry who's going to die next.

Go in with low expectations and you won't be disappointed nor surprised. It's a turd in a pretty wrapper.

Quite the contrary, I think Prometheus answered way too much, and in deeply unsatisfying ways. As prequels usually do.

But of course the worst problem is that it's just a terribly stupid movie, where the plot is only propelled at every turn by pretty much all the characters being the dumbest people to ever grace the silver screen. It's visually beautiful, and has very good music, but if not for the production values it would be the kind of B-movie that Mystery Science Theatre makes fun of. And for that kind of experience it's indeed ideal. I remember watching it with my friend was a whale of a time, we were just falling out of our sits with loughter.