The reason Ripley was so interesting is because... She was a normal person. She was essentially a space trucker, dealing with some slightly annoying crewmates. Literally she was getting annoyed by Parker and Brett hassling her about pay, annoyed at having to go out of their way to investigate a signal. Then she tries to follow quarantine protocol when Kane gets facehugged. She was a normal person trying to do the right thing, even the others were too. All the crew comes off as just your average person working a job, just in space.

When it comes to fighting aliens, it doesn't matter if you're a 100lb woman or a 200lb man, both are gonna get ripped to pieces. It comes down to a "battle of wits", which is why Ripley succeeded. A well written female lead will work.

Lol, they keep trying to recreate Ripley without doing any of the work. What made Ripley so great was because she was TERRIFIED of the Xenomorph. She knew she couldn't beat it in a fight. Even in Aliens 2, she let the marines do their thing while she hanged back. Yet, throughout the story, you see her gaining confidence and learning to defend herself. This all comes together when she has to go in alone to rescue Newt. She went from running away to running into their hive. You can't have badass Ripley until you have scared Ripley.

I personally *LOVED* Alien 3, especially the director's cut. It was the darkest one in the franchise and that gothic soundtrack was a masterpiece that fit perfectly. In fact, I'll even go as far as saying it was the perfect conclusion to Ripley's character.

Ripley was great because she was a normal person in a horror movie. So many people in horror are incredibly stupid, Ripley was smart and acted like an actual person in that situation would!

Drinker is correct, dont over complicate an Alien film because your dealing with a species that has only one job

Space Jockey was perfect because it establishes that there is a vast universe out there that humanity knows nothing about. It’s a cosmic horror aspect.

The original Alien trailer was a back-lit egg and a long inhuman scream. Scared the hell out of me when I was a kid.

Alien: Romulus: Brother, get the Flamer. The Heavy Flamer

Without Millie Bobbie Brown, how can they even pretend they're trying?

"Romulus" references Romulus and Remus, the mythological founders of Rome. Romulus had a disagreement with his brother and killed him, becoming the first king. The name therefore implies a major betrayal before ascension. Imo it could be a fitting name if the film matches the mythology.

Did you guys not even watch the Director explaining the trailer in an interview here on KZfaq? He explains that Romulus is the name of part of the Research Space Station, the other half of it is called Remus. He also stated that this movie takes place 20 years after the first movie and predates the Aliens movie by 30 years. Another cool factoid is that Fede Alverez actually hired the team who made the face huggers for Aliens to come back and make the new face huggers. These guys are in their 60's and 70's, yet we're still happy to come back to do the practical puppeteering for this movie. That's damned admirable right there and shows how serious Alverez takes this film, he should be applauded.

Alien is a franchise that had 2 fantastic films, and then found it's momentum in video games. It's honestly in better hands when it's interactive (Isolation, AVP being the most prominent examples)

The plot twist that the Romulan Star Empire made the xenonorphs would probably make more sense than the actual film will

I don't need a movie to tell me the answer to life, the universe and everything. It's 42.

Totally agree about the space jockey in the first movie. The mystery of it was part of the charm. I like when my imagination does some of the work. Which is something hollywood just doesn't allow for anymore.

In the first Alien movie, Ripley was a character that was written so that it could be a man or woman, and the role went to a woman. Now every main character *has* to be a woman because Ripley was a woman.

Given Disney's track record of beloved franchise destruction. I'm NOT holding out hope that this will be good.

Fede Alvarez is exactly who should be in charge of an Alien movie. That dude is a beast of a film maker.

FINALLY the diverse and inclusive Alien film we have all been waiting for... oh no, wait - we've actually just been waiting for one that doesn't suck

I'm waiting for the installment where the female alien becomes a sympathetic character who bonds with the girlboss

Alien is just like Terminator- only the first two exist! The rest are all just a bad fever dream!😩😩😩

Reminds me the hype around Prometheus, and then the disappointment. Also reminds me of the hype around Alien: Covenant, and then the disappointment.

It still amuses the hell out of me that the original "Alien" was basically an expanded "reimagining" of John Carpenter's "Dark Star" from 5 years before, just played straight instead of for comedy. Small crew of blue-collar workers on a spaceship, unglamorous "lived-in" approach to sci-fi, one of the characters brought an alien on-board which then gets loose around the ship, untrustworthy corporate "boss" back on earth, female-voiced ship's computer in its own little "computer room," and so on. But it's probably not surprising they share so many similarities, because the screenwriter on both was the same guy: Dan O'Bannon. So, "Dark Star" and "Alien" are a bit like "Doctor Strangelove" and "Fail Safe" in that they're two different tellings of the same thing but one plays it for comedy and the other plays it deadly serious.

Can't wait for "Alien: Biggus Dickus."

When you bring in 20 somethings that look like they're from the disney channel, I worry. Really hope they nail the space trucker retro tech vibe. But i doubt it.

As someone with a love of Roman mythology, the "Why did they call it Alien: Romulus? That makes me think of Star Trek." hurt me in my soul.

I love the differences here. You have Drinker and Ryan who are less cynical and can genuinely judge something separately and hope. Then there's ppl like Robot Head and Mauler who are so cynical at this point that basically nothing impresses them at this point. Fascinating!

Sequels and remakes. Where would modern Hollywood be without them? Profitable perhaps?

Aliens: Romulus is about how the Aliens founded Rome w/ his twin brother Remus raised by a she-wolf that was actually an alien.

The best part was when the alien queen yelled “it’s face huggin’ time!’

Never trust trailers, I learnt that also through 40 years of gaming. 😬

Remember that the original Alien movie trailer, never showed the Alien in any form. For us going to the theater back when, we kind of knew that it was in space, and something goes really, really wrong, and no internet to give spoilers. So we got pretty shook when seeing it for the first time. None of us were expecting the chest burster scene, or the face hugger, or the grown one.

The director's cut of Alien III put the narrative back into the film, but nothing can salvage the off screen killing of Newt and Hicks. Worst. Decision. Ever.

Exactly right, we weren't looking for any explanation/back story of the Space Jockey and even of the Alien itself. It was the mystery of them and of what else could potentially be out there that made the Alien movie so great.

That’s funny. I’ve never heard of anyone hating AVP from my generation. No one thinks it’s a good movie but it’s a fun one. Like a fanfiction of sorts.

The fact its plugged as having a young cast does my head in

What would be cool is if they lead us to think the main actress is the hero, like Tom Skerrett, and then kill her violently so it turns out a secondary character like the Android is the only one who survives, like Sigourney in the OG.

I hadn’t even heard of Alien Romulus until this video.

Why Alien 1 Ripley was so good: Writing: Ripley was an average person on the ship with everyone else. Nothing remarkable about her. Vulnerable like everyone else, and we had a sense that anything could happen to her and the crew at any time. There was danger. Then, like a hero archetype, she goes from vulnerable to rising to the occasion. Still a struggle, but barely surviving. Everything following was a Mary Sue. CHARACTER: Sigourney Weaver nailed the role. She had the range to carry the whole film, and she made it believable. You need both to make a film thats memorable. Nowadays we have neither, for the most part. Also, the original Alien films came out before anyone was sneaking agendas and morals into writing. Theyre just pure stories, untainted by modern politics (im mainly glaring at Disney). All those reasons are why films like Alien, Aliens, and Terminator are timeless and iconic. I fear we will never get back to that era of cinema and music where creativity and risk were rewarded, and talent blossomed. I feel like we are living in a post artistic society. Like a great culture was born and died and we dont know how to reclaim it. Like the days after the renaissance where people stopped picking up a paintbrush to paint, but instead used a printing press to recreate the old works. Only the people running the printing press now want to put their name on the famous painting theyre printing.

According to legend, Romulus built the city of Rome.

The Drinker referencing Mike from RLM is why he is the GOAT!

It's frustrating because there is plenty of material out there. One could just do the following to quickly right the ship: 1. Make a film adaptation of the book, AvP: Prey. 2. Follow Hicks and Newt's storyline from the comics in either a film or TV series. However, I have zero faith that today's Disney could pull it off.

The good James Cameron went down with the Titanic and never came back up. The final nail in his coffin was when he announced a few years ago that he had sufferend from "Testosterone Poisoning" in the past and was over it now, and that there would never again be a boom-stick in any of his movies. Wait, what? But aren't the bad guys in Avatar-world military?

I’m both excited and nervous about Alien Romulus, I’m hoping they take notes from the Alien Isolation game, and make it actual horror instead of whatever the hell Prometheus and Alien Covenant was supposed to be.

Personally I would've preferred they made the lead a sista so when the alien pops up she can go "SHHHHHEEEEEEEEIIIITT"

The only real problem with "Alien" is that it was so good there was almost nothing a film-maker could do as a follow-up. Once the xenomorph and its behaviour are revealed, the entire premise is exposed for us to enjoy for the rest of that movie... but ONLY that movie. Three things made "Alien" work: the slow suspenseful build-up; the truly shocking -- and horrifying -- payoffs, i.e., the face-hugger, the chest-burster, and the adult creature; and the consistently high level of acting. I'll add a fourth to that list as well -- the score (minimalistic and moody). After an experience like that, all that remained for any director or writer was to put together some action movie, with jump scares, explosions, and a few variations on alien-kills-human. James Cameron made it work with "Aliens", but at that point the premise had been milked dry. However, I DID enjoy some of the subsequent movies, but on a much lesser level of appreciation.

I agree with Robot Head: the trailer always looks good. Don't be fooled, Drinker!

The astute observer would have noticed: 1. How they are selling the director and not the movie in this teaser. Which never bodes well. 2. Member berries. Both in the chosen shots as the sound bytes they use. There is a literal 'Ripley shot' in there. "Open the door!" is another cliché. 3. Making the lead a woman AGAIN reeks of threading the same waters, which reeks of creative poverty. 4. The corridors are back. That's the one good thing I saw.

Alien franchise trailers are always good because they use that claxon wailing alarm sound from the original Alien trailer. The power of an amazing sound effect.

"Husband isnt going to beat me today" is exactly my feelings.

Just like Prometheus and Alien:Covenant looks like we're in for more Ridley Scott throat ramming and synthetic white splatter

The only mystery left in the Alien universe is why the film makers haven't explored the living spaceship angle.

Ah Promethius... the Dodgey Shot... I laughed so hard at that. That and the "No, it WON'T be fine!"

The fact that she actually looks scared shitless gives me hope.

Remember watching Aliens 3 in the theater with my sister. SO excited. 15 mins later, we looked at each other, stood up, and walked out of the theater. First and last time we EVER did that. It really was a watershed moment for film, the beginning of the end.

Robot Head has a really good point that I never though about. I saw a lot of crap movies in the 90's and early 2000's because the trailer looked really good. Now i see a trailer and it's like "well, that looks dumb."

It looks like it came out in the 90's, which is good. Aside from the facehuger CGI looking a little dodgey and the fact it's just Alien and Aliens mashed together, I'm intrigued. Expected another mass dislike wave like The Acolyte trailer.

I didn't know Fede Alvarez was directing. He did a top job on the Evil Dead reboot so I have my xenomorph fingers crossed.

1. Strong female protagonist - check. 2. Evil white male representing evil big business - check. 3. Diverse cast where anyone who isn't a white male depicted as brave and heroic, and white male depicted in every negative trope ever thought of - check. 4. Trailer doesn't actually show anything but nostalgia flashes to the original - check. Nope, they'll f*ck it up just like they've f*cked up every other geeky franchise. Can't help but notice that the remake doesn't have the "Hollywood Twist" of switching the genders in the main role. Where's the male Ripley, Hollywood? EDIT: Okay... apparently, I haven't made my point clear, since I'm getting a ton of "YOU'VE NEVER SEEN THE MOVIE, YOU'RE AN IDIOT, THE MOVIES HAVE ALWAYS HAD THOSE THINGS!!!" posts below. I didn't want to write an essay for my comment, so I kept it simple. Apparently, I need to spell it out. So, allow me to clarify: The points I made above were intended to show off how perfect the character of Ellen Ripley would be for Hollywood to subvert the original character and showcase THE MESSAGE with their alternative version. It's the same thing they did with the Barbie movie... the original Barbie would never have acted like the way the Barbie in the recent movie would act. But because in the recent years, the makers of Barbie have gone out of their way to change Barbie into a more PC-friendly version, they were able to turn the Barbie character into the Feminist Ideal in the movie. That's Hollywood trying to hold onto their liberal ideals, but changing their methods so they didn't piss off the fans of the original quite as much. Now, they have one of the OG tough female roles... Ellen Ripley. An ordinary woman who became bad-ass due to circumstances. The original Ripley was flawed, scared, often helpless against the Alien threat she was forced to face, and she damn sure didn't want to go BACK into the fray and continue to fight the Aliens... Weyland-Yutani basically lied to her in order to emotionally blackmail her into going back. But she did what she had to do, she learned what she needed to learn, and she went about fighting the Aliens like a scientist who was unfamiliar with weapons would be. In the second Aliens movie, she went all G.I. Jane and loaded up on weaponry, but even then Sigourney Weaver portrayed the character like a scientist and not like a superhuman Girl-Boss. The military body armor and the weaponry were too big and heavy for her, she wasn't at all accurate with her guns and depended on volume of fire and area of effect to do the job, she was scared to death the entire time, and she got tricked again by Weyland-Yutani rep Carter Burke and nearly didn't get out of the trap alive! She was bad-ass... but she was also very human. Hollywood will f*ck up Alien: Romulus because they're going to subvert the bad-ass female character originally made perfect with Ellen Ripley. Instead of Sigourney Weaver's excellent portrayal of a frightened, unprepared, awkward yet bad-ass woman who was thrust into circumstances that she never wanted to be in and would have gladly avoided like the plague if she could... this new Strong, Independent Female role in Romulus will end up as just another cookie-cutter, invincible Girl-Boss with little actual character and zero likeability. Why? Because Cailee Spaeny is just another cookie-cutter, Hollywood-manipulated actress with little talent other than her willingness to do whatever liberal Hollywood tells her to do. Hell, I'm seriously surprised that they didn't choose a Diverse, non-binary LGTBQIAXYZPDQblahblahblah "acteur" to play the role... though, I won't be surprised if that happens if Hollywood decides to make another sequel. So... there you go. The full essay on what I'm talking about. It's so long that very few people will actually read the entire thing, which is why I kept the original post short. And I'm sure I'll still get trolls who will read the first couple of sentences and then put me on Blast in the comments below, because no one on the Internet can handle any opinions but their own nowadays. Have a nice day, everyone.

As you mentioned, the fact that we have a horror director making an Alien film is already a very good start. If you want intensity, gore and shock-value Fede is your man! Plus, if they're simplifying the story and scope and it turns out to be entertaining AND scary, I will be satisfied. Forget about the lore and past films for a moment, it could be as the trailer suggests, a balls-out, horror-heavy Alien film. What's not to love (so far).

Alien Isolation is a horror masterpiece, we really need a sequel.

let's see if ridley scott producer is as quick an off as ridley 'lingering death' director.

Alien: Romulus: *exists* Brother, get the Flamer. The Heavy Flamer.

Kind of sad that apparently not a single person on this panel knows that Romulus is the legendary founder of Rome. I mean that doesn't make it a good name but if you're going to comment on it you really should know something that basic.

The Space Jockey is a good example of Hemingway’s iceberg technique. Audiences are daft, they can fill in the gaps themselves…

After Prometheus I won't make the same mistake ever, thanks

A prequel to Aliens would be a much better idea, with the last stand of the Colony after they found the Eggs. We know they're all going to die, make them likeable, interesting and their demise would be more impactful. So they can get away from the ripleyask protagonist in every Alien movie.

I hope Alien Romulus has a ton of messaging. That's what modern audiences want.

Alien died when the Navigator turned out to be just a giant in a suit.

After watching Alien:Covenant, I was utterly convinced Alien 3 was a great film.

I don't trust Ridley Scott anymore ...Prometheus and Covenant were diarrhea levels of bad.

2:30 the original Alien was very diverse. Yaphet Koto (black dude), Sigourney Weaver (strong female). It was done properly without any agendas. A true classic.

I don't know why xenomorphs and cats don't get along. After all, they're both face-huggers.

I'm not too excited about the trailer; I remember Prometheus. 😑🎉

"Let's slap another coat of paint on the old gal and see if we can pass it off as new." Again!

LOL... Media companies: "I'm feeling pretty good today, don't think I'll beat you."

I'm cautiously optimistic, The director Fede Alverez has been saying a lot of the right things, or rather the not the wrong things. Considering with other large IPs that have been ruined recently by" we have never seen / read / we ignored the source material. " "we need to tell our own new story to reframe and explain the originals with a new voice" "we have updated it to reflect the world we live in today" "we have a strong social message in this story" Fede seems to get what Alien is about as a fan so I am interested in his take, I gather Noah Hawley's Alien series seems to get it aesthetically too

I like the fact that the film is taking a different direction by hiring a diminutive, dark-haired woman to be the hero/survivor this time.

I like the third extended movie - a tragic arc to ripley. And somehow I really enjoy the fourth as a standalone. I mean common, it has really some great ideas - the underwater scene, the scientific experiments on aliens... the eggs in front of prisoners... etc... AND it was directed by french director Jean Pierre Jaunet, meaning it was OVER THE TOP like french cinema often is. Take Luc Besson for instance - the Ressurection movie has this kind of frenchness like 5th element did. And that's the reason I like it. It's over the top. :D

It looks fine. Gotta keep the grift up tho

That shot where the facehugger jumps onto a person's face, making that person jerk backwards so hard that their head should have pulled off, makes me think they're going to overly rely on "cool action shots".

I feel like Cameron was involved in Dark Fate about as much as Spielberg was in Ready Player One.

This movies were one of the first "contemporary" movies, they really didn't know what they were doing and now the producers and directors are tying to come up with a formula to distill more hits, but they still don't understand what they did in the 70's. and 80's

All I needed to know to be excited about this, is that Fede Alvarez is directing. His Evil Dead was an extraordinary reimagining, and I cannot understand why they didn’t go with him for the second modern Evil Dead. All I had to SEE was that shot of the facehugger detaching in homage to Giger’s original drawings. This has clearly been a labour of love from a talented Director who wants to put his stamp on a beloved franchise, rather than destroying it to self-insert political ideals. I think this is going to be fucking phenomenal!

Hell yeah Badger! The AVP 2 story is the perfect story for an actual movie. The fact that you get to play the same story from 3 different angles (alien predator and marine) is legit. Romulus name has some kind of connection to the Romulus and Remus legend.

The Cloverfield trailer was a perfect example of when it's done correctly. It gave absolutely nothing away as to what the movie might be about but was interesting enough to get people talking and subsequently into theaters.

Romulus was the founder of Rome. He fought his twin brother Remus and killed him. This led to him founding the eternal city we know today.

One thing I noticed is how loud the trailer is. Alien wasn't loud (for the most part) Alien hit you in the face with unnerving silence. It highlighted the isolation.

I thought this trailer was actually great. Gotta say it’s 99% because it didn’t have a voiceover explaining the entire movie. Someone pointed out to me how many movies do this and I haven’t been able to unsee it since

"Is he an expert in things that never happened before?" This is not only the best line in that RLM Prometheus video. It may well be the best RLM line ever. Here's the problem with any new Alien movie or really any of these legacy franchises. At a certain point, you have to become very, very creative, and I would say fairly avante garde in order to make a movie that isn't ultimately stale if otherwise enjoyable. Alien is the perfect example, and this trailer is the evidence of that. It seems already the movie is going to shake down one of two ways: A) these new characters spend half to a third of the runtime trying to figure out what the Alien is and how to fight it, essentially retreading Alien, Alien 3, and Alien Covenant. B) The characters either know or learn very quickly what the Alien is and know how to fight it but must survive the dangerous situation, retreading Aliens, Alien Resurrection, and the two AvP movies. Ultimately, what's really going to be different? Maybe it'll be gorier, some new interesting special effects, perhaps? There's things that can be done to keep these franchises interesting. Unfortunately, the overly corporate nature of Hollywood is far to risk averse to try them, and as a result, instead of interesting continuations of iconic IPs, we were stuck with ultimately hollow films that are rehashing the same beats and plots that we not only have seen before, but at this point, several times over.

From what I've read, the title Romulus, represents a space station, where a group of colonists are going to dock. The space station is split into two halves: Remus, which is technologically primitive; and Romulus, which is more state-of-the-art technologically. 🤔🤔

I think "Romulus" is the name of the space station they are investigating, and thats one of the campaigns on the Aliens Fireteam game. The gun also looks like it comes from that game as well. Weyland Yutani guns are white colored, and not military green.

I liked 3, thought it was a good ending to the story. A brutal ride for sure, but it had a finality about it. Ending the story there would have been good.

Is called Romulus because according to the Director the movie is about the betrayal of Romulus and Remus, the founders of Rome, and is also the name of the space station.

I just hate that there is SO MUCH source material for Alien, Predator, Star Wars and other classic franchises out side of movies with books, comics and video games (much like AVP2 game which had a great plot as mentioned) and the Hollywood folks just straight up ignore it all.

I did not even know *ALIEN: ROMULUS* was a thing until the last week or two.

MauLer's battered spouse analogy is spot on.

"Look man,I only need to know one thing,Where They Are!" ^kick-ass Vasquez^ ...I remember when movies were good,this looks too shiney & clean,I miss the grit & grimey of Aliens;) I wanna be optimistic I really do.

I’m gonna be cautiously optimistic, but…..Fede Alvarez, Evil Dead, call my interest piqued.