Fede \u00c1lvarez and Rodo Sayagues have completed a script for the sequel to last year\u2019s Alien: Romulus, but \u00c1lvarez\u00a0won\u2019t be in the director\u2019s chair this time around.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe just finished the script, actually, for a sequel for Romulus, but I\u2019m gonna pass the torch on this one as director,\u201d the filmmaker told TooFab<\/a> last night on the red carpet at Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights in Hollywood.<\/p>\n \u00c1lvarez will produce the new installment alongside original Alien director Ridley Scott. They\u2019re currently seeking a new filmmaker to direct.<\/p>\n \u201cI think that\u2019s usually what has happened, except for Ridley, filmmakers come, you make one and you pass the baton to the next one,\u201d \u00c1lvarez said. \u201cBut 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.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00c1lvarez plans to helm an original film he wrote with Sayagues. \u201cI want to work on a personal project that me and my co-writer, we\u2019ve been keeping on the back burner for a while and we feel it\u2019s the right time to go and work on an original.\u201d He adds, \u201cBut I can\u2019t tell you anything about it.\u201d<\/p>\n Cailee Spaeny and David Jonsson, who starred in Alien: Romulus as brave colonist Rain Carradine and her synthetic brother Andy, respectively, are expected to reprise their roles in the sequel.<\/p>\n \u201cI think it\u2019ll be so exciting to go with characters you know from this movie, to a place in the Alien franchise that we\u2019ve never been before, and to discover things that you\u2019ve never seen before,\u201d Alvarez previously teased<\/a>.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fede \u00c1lvarez and Rodo Sayagues have completed a script for the sequel to last year\u2019s Alien: Romulus, but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[56172,96,56173,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-117034","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-alien-romulus","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-fede-alvarez","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}