Similar to\u00a0Paramount’s planned acquisition of\u00a0Warner Bros. Discovery, not everyone was on board with the Disney\/Fox merger when it happened. However,\u00a0it’s done wonders for the\u00a0Alien\u00a0and\u00a0Predator\u00a0franchises.<\/p>\n
The latter has flourished on Dan Trachtenberg’s watch, and\u00a0Alien: Romulus\u00a0was a definite step in the right direction for that long-running sci-fi series after Sir Ridley Scott’s divisive prequel movies, Prometheus and Alien: Covenant.\u00a0<\/p>\n
With\u00a0Evil Dead\u00a0director Fede \u00c1lvarez at the helm, the franchise was restored to its former glory thanks to a crew of likeable characters and a legitimately terrifying approach to the Xenomorphs.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, it’s since been revealed that\u00a0\u00c1lvarez will\u00a0not\u00a0return to helm the sequel. He and\u00a0Rodo Sayagues penned the follow-up’s screenplay, and the hunt for a filmmaker has been ongoing for some time.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Well, thanks to Nexus Point News<\/a>\u00a0(via SFFGazette.com<\/a>), we finally have an update. The site reports that\u00a0Michael Sarnoski (A Quiet Place: Day One) is now being eyed to helm the untitled Alien: Romulus sequel.<\/p>\n He’s described as the “preferred candidate for the job,” and is also known for the\u00a0acclaimed drama Pig, starring Nicolas Cage. His next movie, The Death of Robin Hood, stars Hugh Jackman and arrives in theaters later this year. The filmmaker is also attached to a big-screen adaptation of the Death Stranding video game.<\/p>\n “I don’t think I was ever going to [return],”\u00a0\u00c1lvarez previously said\u00a0of his decision not to return for the follow-up.\u00a0“We always knew right when we finished \u2013 this is one of those things where you come in, and you do one, and get out.\u00a0Cameron, Fincher.\u00a0all those directors I love, they went and did one. Obviously, Ridley created it, he has the right to make a bunch of them.”<\/p>\n “We did want to write it. Honestly, it\u2019s because we love the characters we created, so we want to make sure no one kills them right at the beginning of the next one. They went and killed Hicks and Newt just like that. Hey, let\u2019s not let that happen,”\u00a0he continued.\u00a0“We wrote it and made sure they stayed alive, and now we can let someone else make it.”<\/p>\n It’s too soon to say whether the\u00a0Alien: Romulus\u00a0sequel can capture the same level of success as its predecessor without\u00a0\u00c1lvarez behind the camera. The movie has 80% on Rotten Tomatoes and grossed\u00a0$350.9 million at the box office.<\/p>\n The\u00a0Alien\u00a0franchise has a habit of swiftly killing off characters from previous chapters so the spotlight can shift to a new set of victims for the Xenomorphs (Hicks and Newt, for example, met a swift end at the start of\u00a0Alien 3).\u00a0<\/p>\n Based on\u00a0\u00c1lvarez’s remarks, we can expect to see much more of\u00a0Cailee Spaeny as Marie Raines “Rain” Carradine and\u00a0David Jonsson as Andy.\u00a0<\/p>\n As always, keep checking back here\u00a0for updates as we have them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Similar to\u00a0Paramount’s planned acquisition of\u00a0Warner Bros. Discovery, not everyone was on board with the Disney\/Fox merger when it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[20101,146,85,46,397],"class_list":["post-335733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-alien","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}