The marketing for Fede Alvarez’s (Evil Dead, Don’t Breathe) Alien: Romulus is coming fast and furious as we inch closer to the August 16 release, and 20th Century Studios dropped two promotional videos this afternoon that seem to spoil something the film’s other marketing materials have avoided spilling the beans on. Spoilers incoming. You have been warned…
The first of today’s new videos is titled “Introducing Rain,” and it puts the spotlight on Cailee Spaeny’s Ripley-inspired heroine. The other is titled “10 Days,” a reference to the fact that Alien: Romulus will be unleashed in theaters nationwide in, well, ten days.
It’s the latter video that contains the SPOILER we’re here to discuss, as the 30-second video features an Aliens-inspired shot that suggests the film’s ill-fated crew is going to have to deal with a lot more than one fully-grown Xenomorph. Previous trailers for the film had seemed to suggest Alvarez’s movie was more Alien than Aliens, with only one Xenomorph (the “Scorched Xenomorph”) in play, but this latest video indicates that it’s a true fusion of the two movies.
Similarly, the aforementioned “Introducing Rain” video released today also features a shot of two Xenomorphs, suggesting several members of the crew are going to be giving birth to the ultimate killing machines. If you don’t mind the spoilers, watch both videos below…
In Alien: Romulus, “While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe.”
Cailee Spaeny (The Craft: Legacy, Pacific Rim Uprising) leads the cast alongside Isabela Merced, David Jonsson, Archie Renaux, Spike Fearn and Aileen Wu.
Alien: Romulus takes place between the events of Alien and Aliens.