‘Alien: Romulus’ brought the Xenomorph back to the big screen and was a huge hit, leading to the swift approval of a sequel. However, director Fede Álvarez doesn’t want to make another movie just for the sake of it. The director stated that they are currently trying to find the “right story” for the sequel, warning that without it, the project could become a “disaster.” For Álvarez, a strong story is essential.
“Well, I mean, we definitely want to do it,” he told io9. “The studio wants to do it. I want to do it. I think with sequels, it’s always about finding the right story. Me and Rodo [Sayagues], my co-writer, we have some ideas, but it’s not until we find something that we go, ‘Okay, that is a movie worth making,’ that we really embark on it. So that’s the process we are in right now, trying to find a story that is worthy of everyone’s time and is worthy of the title.”
He continued, “Otherwise, you never want to fall into the mistake of making [a sequel] just because the first one is a big hit … [making a sequel] just because you can make it—that’s always a recipe for disaster.”
“We’re working on a sequel idea now. We haven’t quite closed our deal with Fede [Álvarez], but we are going to, and he has an idea that we’re working on,” Fox president Steve Asbell previously said regarding the ‘Romulus’ follow-up.
‘Alien: Romulus’ is a 2024 science fiction horror film directed by Fede Álvarez and written by Álvarez and Rodo Sayagues. The film stars Cailee Spaeny, David Jonsson, Archie Renaux, Isabela Merced, Spike Fearn, and Aileen Wu as a group of six downtrodden teenagers who encounter hostile creatures while exploring an abandoned space station.
