‘Alien: Romulus’ Is Set Between These Two ‘Alien’ Films

An alien snarling into the camera in 'Alien: Romulus.'

The Big Picture Over the weekend, Alien: Romulus opened in theaters, adding not just another installment to the beloved sci-fi franchise but also another chapter in the overarching story that now spans seven feature-length films. Finding the perfect place in the timeline to insert Romulus was likely one of the most important decisions that its director, Fede Álvarez had to make, carefully dropping the movie between 1979’s Alien and 1986’s Aliens.

“ I knew from day one that if I made an Alien movie, I wanted it to take place in that era of technology of Alien mostly and some of Aliens . I knew for a fact that it wasn’t going to be glossy holograms and white shiny floors. It wasn’t going to be any of that. It was gonna really go to that grit of those original films. The whole bet was — not just as a vibe, as a look — but the movie needed to feel very eighties, which I think it does and which a lot of my friends felt.

“Why I think it will work and why it connects with modern audience is because when Tarantino put out Pulp Fiction in the mid-nineties, I go watch that movie and like everybody else, we all get blown away by the vibe and the style of the movie . But our parents’ generation will tell us it’s just an exploitation movie from the sixties and seventies -- what is so new about it? For me, it was all new and unique for anybody to have seen all those movies back then .

Alien: Romulus is now playing in theaters. Stay tuned at Collider for our full spoiler chat with Álvarez. You can watch our interview with the cast below.

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