Space colonizers battle ultimate killing machines in Alien: Romulus trailer

The facehuggers and chestbursters will return with a vengeance in a few weeks. Alien: Romulus Finally released in theaters. Horror director Fede Alvarez (Don’t breathe, evil dead), and the final action-packed trailer has now been released.

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As Previously reported, Alien: Romulus It is set during the events of alien and alien (Not affiliated with FX/Hulu) alien Part 1 series (It is scheduled to premiere next year.) Nostromodestroying a murderous alien, blasting off into space in a spaceship’s lifeboat with his orange cat Jonesy, and waking up from 57 years of hypersleep to battle even more aliens while protecting young orphan Newt (Carrie Henn). According to the pithy, succinct official synopsis, “While rummaging through the bowels of an abandoned space station, a group of young space colonists come face to face with the universe’s most terrifying life form.”

Cailee Spaeny (Priscilla, Pacific Rim Uprising) is Rain Carradine, Isabella Merced (The Last of Us) plays Kay, and David Johnson (Murder is easy) plays Andy. Archie Renaud (Shadow and Bone) is Tyler, Spike Fern (Aftersun) as Bjorn and Eileen Wu as Navarro. However, the iconic, magnetic Ellen Ripley (immortalized by Sigourney Weaver) is unlikely to appear in the film. At this point in the timeline, she and Jonesy are in the midst of a 57-year hiatus, traveling through space in an escape shuttle en route to a fateful encounter with the alien queen.

Haunted House in Space

The first time I saw Alien: Romulusthe ninth installment in the sci-fi series; March A short teaser hinted that Alvarez may be able to deliver on his intention to return the standalone film to the franchise’s stripped-down space horror roots, and there was some exclusive footage as well. Screening at CinemaCon The film, which came out in April, was filled with the expected facehuggers and chestbursters, and the full trailer, released in March, showed it to be just as gory, tense, fun and terrifying as the first two films in the series, with a spooky space haunted house feel to it.

This final trailer features a lot of the same footage but adds a few more details about the story. The young space colonists are preparing to steal “highly regulated equipment” from the aforementioned abandoned space station, mainly because Tyler thinks “it might be our only way to get out of here.” The team thinks it’ll be a quick job, in and out in 30 minutes. But we know better, right?

They are welcomed by the MU/TH/UR (the spaceship’s computer) on the Romulus space station, with Bjorn being the first to voice that this space station is super creepy. Poor Bjorn is the first to get hit by the face hugger, followed by Navarro, who in earlier footage discovered an alien growing inside her chest. In the trailer, the chest-exploding device is seen preparing to emerge, and Kay is understandably terrified. Kay, Rain, Andy and Tyler pull out their weapons and prepare to face the monster together. But what are their chances of survival against the ultimate killing machine? Especially considering the ominous final countdown to the “impact event”…

Alien: Romulus It is scheduled to be released in theaters on August 16, 2024.

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