Following the earlier behind-the-scenes video of the radio-controlled Facehuggers on the set of Alien: Romulus, Fede Alvarez has shared another behind-the-scenes image of a Facehugger prop curled around a film slate on a very Nostromo inspired looking set!
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Ok yeah, absolutely love that.
https://x.com/BDisgusting/status/1785402922513104942
https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/movies/2024/04/29/best-movies-summer-2024/73406776007/
https://www.usatoday.com/gcdn/authoring/authoring-images/2024/04/25/USAT/73459188007-alien-romulus.jpg?width=1320&height=690&fit=crop&format=pjpg&auto=webp
I love this idea, but viral marketing's not the giant it used to be. It's not likely we get anything like that.
I appreciate that Fede really does not want to overexpose the film prior to release and feel that some viral marketing dealing with the JACKSON colony could of been a nice way to satiate our desire for information without showing any of the actual film. Something like an in-universe promotional video soliciting volunteers for the JACKSON colony. Maybe an interview with a colonist 20 years prior to Romulus, where there happens to be a very, very slight flicker in the sky in the corner, barely visible & no attention drawn to it, that may or may not be the Nostromo blowing up (assuming the colony has been there a while and I this takes place in the same star system as Alien). Just ideas of course, but these things cost money. But if sets are already built, why not?
I'm certainly not complaining about anyone spending money on this thing!
But maybe it's just quick scenes in the opening.
Oh, and David of course.
To be fair he's must have answered these same questions so so many times over the years. Even I knew exactly what he was going to say before he said it.
I guess they tried to show they had something new and more brutal as a marketing point.
Even worse - they showed the whole sequence. Insane marketing choice. Imagine if in 79 they just released the chestburster scene or the Dallas vent scene weeks before the movie came out.
Seems like Fede is doing everything in his power to not overexpose the film, based on what he has said in the interviews. I remember the covenant footage with the backburster that was able to find online many weeks before the film's release and how I really, really would of rather experienced that first in theatres. Seeing as how I can't hold back from viewing and over-analyzing every morsel of Romulus footage that finds its way to the net, I hope he is successful in protecting us from ourselves.
I very much prefer the nails. If I were to guess, they probably discussed WHY it seems so difficult to remove one, and honestly that's fair....mostly. If you had a couple of people to grab fingers and uncoil the tail, it shouldn't be too difficult. Assuming it's weight to strength ratio is similar to most Earth creatures.
They probably thought of a way to better explain how they are hard to get off.
I always preferred the idea that facehuggers are inordinately strong for their size beyond the realm of human understanding. The idea of tearing the face off is pretty awesome though, and I imagine we will see that. I would have thrown a barbed schlong in for good measure.
Visually, the nails are awesome.
I imagine with Marichek, the colonists said f**k it and just yanked it off hoping to at least keep another one from being born and got fantastically gory results.
Hmmm......a prequel project suddenly doesn't sound so bad for Hadley's Hope, at least visually.
I was thinking that myself, but Deadpool and Wolverine comes out late July, about a few weeks before Alien Romulus releases. So with that being said, I think it'll debut sometime in May or June - late July seems too late.
We had that Twitter rumour recently suggesting Romulus footage would be included before Apes.
So... Deadpool & Wolverine
my guess is june tbh
It was the green band version, with the darkened blood and the Romulus door instead of the Facehugger removal.
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So for what I've been reading these Xenos are not pure Xenos from a certain point of view since they were breed from Big Chaps DNA. Therefore Facehuggers and Xenos will be different?
Edit1: I mean I don't want to sound like a purist but I would love to have original deisgns such as Big Chap and facehuggers, I understand that a new movie demands new merchandise for marketing purposes so variants and modifications are needed I just wish that they would have keep or stayed to true to the originals.
Any of you guys have any idea why are they getting rid of the finger nails? That's one trait of the design that it's disturbing and they just get rid of it. Why?
I reckon reply's like this are all scripted anyway. Prolly some Burke esk agent told her to day that
Lol, this line is getting old, seems used before every comic, book, game and movie. I'd say the hit rate is about 20%, probably less, but much better as of late I think, loved Aliens: Dark Descent.
Just re-watched the Romulus trailer again, it's so reminiscent of Covenant, with the cliche open the door scream.
Hopefully it pans out. Been calling for a space station Alien setting since....AVP2?
Still loved Covenant and Prometheus.