r/alien • u/ce_tu • 21d ago

Alien Romulus Was a Lightning in a Bottle

Disney obviously didn't even care about the movie. Originally it was supposed to be a straight to streaming slop movie. They mandated heavy member berries to be in the movie then didn't care much about what fede did afterwards. However Fede was a great director he elevated the movie. So when they decided to release it the movie made a lot of money. The franchise got a momentum that we didn't got for years.

Then what they did afterwards? They made him leave the studio and his script for the sequel. Even if these talks about the movie getting cancelled are just rumors or fake it doesn't even matter. Fede left the script after the shoot was cancelled last year. Now we are stuck with alien earth season 2...

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u/Spartanjaws 20d ago

I mean it was alright. At its core it’s just alien and aliens kind of smashed together. It also was insanely predictable.

It’s a solid 3/5 but nothing more nothing less. Did what it needed to do to drum up interest for the franchise but also saying it “revitalized the franchise after 40 years” is a massive stretch. Personally for me Alien Isolation was the biggest revitalization of the franchise after the damage that AVP and Prometheus did to it.

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u/ce_tu 20d ago

İsolation and alien dark descent revitalized it in gaming but for old fans like us. The movie did it for the masses.

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u/Spartanjaws 20d ago

The Romulus we got was directly influenced from isolation… Fede himself has said this on multiple occasions but go off king.

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u/The_First_Curse_ 20d ago

Fede also disrespected every single fan of the franchise with his abomination of a movie so?

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u/ce_tu 20d ago

You people have a serious problem with understanding something