Alien: Covenant may not have made the numbers that the movie was expecting, but the franchise has been brought back thanks to Alien: Romulus.
The movie pretty much has an open-ending with a lot of room for a sequel, and it looks like director Fede Alvarez already has a few ideas of where he wants to go. Talking to Empire, Alvarez says, “Rodo [Sayagues, co-writer] and I are working on that right now… We’re excited about where it can go. We’ve almost checked all of the boxes of things that I want to see [in Romulus], and brought back a lot of the things I hadn’t seen in a while. Wherever we go now, we can go into uncharted waters.”
Though we don’t have any story specifics, Alvarez is said to be very much aiming to continue the story of Cailee Spaeny’s new protagonist Rain, who is once again entering cryo-sleep, hoping to reach a more habitable planet by the end of Romulus.
While that’s a very familiar ending for any fan of the Alien franchise, Alvarez does say, “I think it’ll be so exciting to go with characters you know from this movie, to a place in the Alien franchise that we’ve never been before, and to discover things that you’ve never seen before.”
With David’s (Michael Fassbender) arc still being open-ended after Covenant, fans are hoping that Alvarez will use his next film to finally connect the two storylines and merge them into a unified arc that ends with David as the main antagonist.
While the Prometheus films weren’t perfect, David was definitely one of the standout characters, and Fassbender’s portrayal as an android was probably one of his best of all time.
Hopefully Alvarez thought the same.
No release date has been announced for a sequel to Alien: Romulus.
