Extra aliens are coming.
Earlier this week, reviews surfaced on the subsequent standalone Predator film, “Predator Badlands,” touchdown a theatrical launch date on Nov. 7, 2025. Following that thrilling growth, twentieth Century Studios honcho Steve Asbell has now confirmed an Alien: Romulus follow-up is now in growth.
The thrilling bit of reports comes from The Hollywood Reporter’s interview with the Fox govt, who has been guiding the studio’s largest properties into a brand new period beneath Disney. The juicy slate consists of new Avatar, Planet of the Apes, Alien, and Predator films, and now that every one of them have launched new installments within the post-Disney-acquisition age, it is time to preserve the ball rolling. The whole interview is nicely value an entire learn, because it additionally consists of info on an additional Predator film that is been made in secret and what’s subsequent for different main properties.
Spoilers forward for ‘Alien: Romulus.’
In the case of Alien’s big-screen future (bear in mind there’s an Alien TV present coming subsequent 12 months too), Asbell began by explaining why they selected to maneuver Romulus from its preliminary straight-to-streaming plans to a full-blown theatrical launch that ended up being an enormous success for each the studio and Disney: “It was began as a streaming film as a result of we began growth once we have been in COVID and it wasn’t clear what our technique was going to be theatrical or streaming.”
He additionally identified all of their latest films have been made “with the identical care and curation” no matter how they have been distributed, which is not flawed – 2022’s Hulu-exclusive Prey was additionally implausible.
After all, after Alien: Romulus impressed most critics and horror fanatics — whereas turning a reasonably first rate revenue because of sensible budgeting — there’s contemporary pleasure within the air and across the enduring sci-fi franchise. Is its subsequent step one other standalone, Ripley-less story? Or are we going to comply with the survivors of this final romp into their subsequent chapter?
It feels like the present plan is to do the latter: “We’re engaged on a sequel concept now. We have not fairly closed our take care of Fede [Alvarez], however we’re going to, and he has an concept that we’re engaged on.
“The 2 survivors, Rain and Andy, performed by Cailee Spaeny and David Jonsson, have been actual highlights of the movie. And so I at all times consider it like, ‘Wow, the place do folks need to see them go subsequent?’ We all know there’s going to be aliens. We all know there’s going to be nice horror set items. However I fell in love with each of them and I need to see what their story is,” confirmed Asbell.
THR additionally took this chance to ask the manager a few potential return to Alien vs. Predator, and – as many people suspected – it positive feels like conversations might’ve occurred already. When requested if we’ll see one other Alien vs. Predator, Asbell replied merely with “In all probability.”
Nonetheless, do not count on it anytime quickly: “If we do that, they’re going to be organically created out of those two franchises that we have continued with characters that we fall in love with and people characters will mix … maybe. However we have not gotten to that time. And we’re not simply going to bang it out.”
