“Alien: Romulus” is the best “Alien” film in over 30 years and is currently hitting cinemas. The director behind it is horror filmmaker Fede Alvarez. For this film, he not only delved into the films about the Xenomorph, but also into the comics, novels and games. This could mean good things for gamers.
In mid-June, I was sitting in a pretty good seat in the Astor Film Lounge at the Arri in Munich. I was there to see about 20 minutes of the upcoming science fiction horror film “Alien: Romulus” – and later that day to have a short conversation with the director Fede Alvarez. A film that is supposed to give the “Alien” film series, which has recently stumbled somewhat, a kind of spiritual reboot. Both Ridley Scott’s “Alien” from 1979 and James Cameron’s “Aliens” from 1986 are now considered milestones in film history, genre-defining masterpieces that have influenced filmmakers in Hollywood and far beyond. “Alien 3” from 1992 by David Fincher, who was only 30 years old at the time and which was widely panned by the press due to numerous production problems, is now considered a “good film given the circumstances”.
Since then, fans of the “Alien” saga have not had it easy. First, the 1997 film “Alien: Resurrection” buried the…
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