Face-Hugging Aliens Invade ‘Romulus’ Hall H Panel – Comic-Con
deadline.com“Do you want to see more footage?” Fede Alvarez asked halfway through the Alien: Romulus Hall H panel at Comic-Con on Friday. “Yeahhhhhh!” screamed the crowd, which for 20th Century Studios and Disney should be a sigh of relief in terms of the reception toward their millennial take on the Ridley Scott-born 45-year-old franchise.
Though it’s the latest installment of Alien, it’s first hatched under the Disney-Fox merger. Those in Hall got an extended look of the film involving Cailee Spaeny and her astronaut posse going through a red-lit alien lab-incubator area.
Baby aliens begin popping out of the wall and into the water in a scene that’s a semi-nod to the trash-compactor monster from Star Wars.
But the second clip had Aileen Wu’s Laura getting her chest burst by a baby alien while a spaceship is clumsily taking off. Taking the same-old panel chat-and-clips formula up at notch here at Comic-Con, toward the end of the panel, big red-lit sirens sounded off around the auditorium as bunch of alien facehuggers crawled on stage.
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