Evil Dead Director's Alien Sequel Sounds Like A Return To Form For The Franchise
The Alien sequel by Evil Dead remake director Fede Alvarez added new cast members for a story that sounds like it's returning to the franchise's roots and forgoing much of the mythology Ridley Scott's been playing around with.
When Alien first hit screens, it did so with the immortal tagline, “In space, no one can hear you scream.” Yet people did scream at the chest-bursting gore, the slick, biomechanical beast, and the violent, white-goo-filled androids. It spawned a franchise—three sequels, two “versus” movies (where it fought the Predator), two prequels, and countless games and comics—and a new film in the Alien franchise is coming from Evil Dead remake director Alvarez.
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Per The Hollywood Reporter, while Alvarez may be at the helm of a new Alien sequel, his film isn’t a remake. Instead, it’s going back to the franchise roots established in the first Alien films with Sigourney Weaver and company by being about a colony of young folks trying to survive the onslaught of everyone’s favorite space monster: the Xenomorph, the creature of the acid blood and second mandible. It’s will have the stalker-killer quality of Alien combined with the colony-under-attack aspect of Aliens.
The Alien sequel sees Isabela Merced, David Jonsson, Archie Renaux, Spike Fearn, and Aileen Wu joining Cailee Spaeny (whom genre fans know from Pacific Rim Uprising) to play said young folks being picked off one by one by the Xenomorph based on a script also written by Alvarez. The story is bare bones in a franchise that has moved away from that idea and into versus movies or a more philosophical direction dealing with the nature of violence and creation under the skilled hands of series originator
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