Alien: Romulus introducing Rain

Alien: Romulus bursts onto the big screen this month and the marketing machine has gone into top gear. On Tuesday, Twentieth Century Studios dropped a featurette introducing Rain (Cailee Spaeny).



Read the official synopsis:

"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 upcoming Alien franchise movie, directed by Fede Álvarez (Don't Breathe), is set between Alien and Aliens and is a hybrid of both.

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 Álvarez (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.

Spaeny told SFX magazine that she looked to classic horror movies because she felt the need to bring different looks of terror to Alien: Romulus.

“The whole time I was making the movie, the second I got home I either had a sci-fi or a horror film playing in the background the whole time. Usually horror,” Spaeny told SFX. "So, whether that was having The Texas Chainsaw Massacre on or The Blair Witch Project or Near Dark, because you do sort of run out of ideas.

“You're like, 'I don’t know how to be horrified again today in an interesting way,’” Spaeny added. “I've got, like, three facial expressions and you've seen all of them about 100 times now!”

Originally intended to go straight-to-streaming on Hulu and Star on Disney+, Alien: Romulus is only in cinemas on 16th August.

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