Alien: Last News

Mickey 17 and Parasite director Bong Joon-ho has said he would be open to making an Alien musical.Speaking in a new interview with the Los Angeles Times, when asked about working on a blockbuster franchise like Star Wars or James Bond, he said: “I’m not drawn to franchise films, but I did think at one point that I would like to do an Alien film.”He then added: “An Alien musical.”The most recent movie in the long running franchise was Alien: Romulus, which was released last year and directed by Fede Álvarez. The film, which is set between the first two Alien films, featured highly in NME’s 20 Best Films of 2024.NME’s five-star review described it as being “as thrilling and scary as the original”, and “a movie that comes close to the brilliance of Ridley Scott and James Cameron”.A forthcoming TV series – Alien: Earth, which is set two years before the events of the original 1979 film Alien is also set to drop later this year on Hulu in the US and Disney+ in the UK.Meanwhile, Bong’s latest movie Mickey 17, which stars Robert Pattinson, is released in cinemas today (March 7).The film, which is an adaptation of Edward Ashton’s 2022 novel Mickey7, sees Pattinson play Mickey Barnes, a man who signs up to be an “expendable”, a human that can regenerate after death, but finds multiple versions of himself confronting each other after a space expedition goes wrong.

Michael Fassbender has revealed that, during talks for the role of James Bond in the mid-2000s, he inadvertently helped out Daniel Craig in getting the part.While still and up-and-coming star at the time, Fassbender was one of many names considered for the role which would eventually go to Craig.Appearing on the Happy Sad Confused Podcast to promote his new film Black Bag, Fassbender was asked how close he came to actually being 007, and the actor revealed he ended up advocating for his competitor Craig instead.“I met with (producer) Barbara Broccoli just you know through passing and I actually went in to an audition phase before Daniel was cast, but I don’t think I was ever in the mix,” he said. “But I remember going into that room and meeting with her and (Michael G.) Wilson and I think I was like, ‘Daniel Craig is…’ I don’t know why I was promoting him.

The Tempest, interrupting star Sigourney Weaver to raise a banner protesting the government’s reaction to global warming.Midway through a performance on Monday (January 27), Weaver and her fellow cast members were on stage at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in London.The scene saw two protesters walk on with a banner saying “Over 1.5 degrees is a global shipwreck”, a reference to the premise of The Tempest where the passengers of a ship are stranded on a magical island.The message on the banner also alludes to the recent announcement that 2024 was the warmest on record globally, the first full year when the average temperature exceeded 1.5C above the pre-industrial average, considered by many to be the threshold to avoid climate disaster.They then launched a confetti canon, while Weaver was led away by a member of staff and an announcement said: “We’ll have to stop the show, ladies and gents, sorry.” The crowd mostly booed and heckled the pair, although there were cheers and applause from some members of the audience.

Alien: Romulus, has revealed that he has fixed the appearance of Rook after backlash about the the character, based on the late Ian Holm.In the film, Rook is an android who is the same model as Ash, whom Holm played in Ridley Scott’s original Alien. Initially claiming to help the scavengers trapped aboard the Romulus, he eventually becomes an impediment to their escape.For the recreation, which was made with the consent of Holm’s estate, a combination of CGI and puppetry was used to achieve the likeness of the actor, who passed away in 2020.Speaking to Empire recently, Alvarez agreed with criticisms of the scene, saying: “I wasn’t 100 per cent happy with some of the shots, where you could feel a bit more the CG intervention. So, for people that react negatively, I don’t blame them”.Alvarez continued: “We fixed it.

Alien: Romulus will be arriving on the Disney+ service on January 15, an official press release has revealed. The seventh instalment in the main Alien franchise was a hit at the box office, and featured highly in NME’s 20 Best Films of 2024.Directed by Fede Alvarez, Alien: Romulus’ story is set between the first two Alien films.

Rotten Tomatoes has collated the world’s critical consensus and amassed a list of the most acclaimed films in the genre’s century-plus history, in a list that has also factored in the audience-driven ‘Popcornmeter’ into its equation.In a list bulging with 24-carat classics, the prestigious top spot is taken by Steven Spielberg’s 1975 monster hit Jaws. Based on the Peter Benchley novel, it terrified a generation of film-goers enough that people were scared to go swimming at the beach for years after its release.Roy Scheider’s police chief Martin Brody enlists the help of Robert Shaw’s shark hunter to hunt down a man-eating Great White that has been picking off holiday makers on the beach of Amity Island.

Alien: Isolation is a first-person horror game set in the universe of the Alien movie franchise. It celebrated its 10th anniversary on Sunday (October 6), and to celebrate, developer Creative Assembly has revealed it’s working on a sequel to the critically acclaimed title.In a tweet on October 7, Creative Assembly wrote, “On the 10th anniversary, it seems only fitting to let you know that we have heard your distress calls loud and clear.

Alien: Romulus bursts its way into cinemas on Friday (August 16), the ninth film in the sci-fi/horror franchise – but how should newcomers tackle the xenomorph world in order? Read on for the comprehensive guide.Fede Alvarez’s (Evil Dead, Don’t Breathe) new film stars Cailee Spaeny (Priscilla) and David Jonsson (Industry, Rye Lane) and follows a group of young space colonists who are confronted with a mysterious extraterrestrial threat while scavenging around an abandoned space station.In a five-star review of Alien: Romulus, NME wrote: “With spot-on production design that really captures the worn-out feel of space travel that the Alien films so perfectly showed, the practical and visual effects, bringing that acid-dripping bitch back to life, are also superbly realised. With a gets-right-under-the-skin score from Benjamin Wallfisch, this is an Alien film for the ages.

Alien: Romulus has arrived, teasing a number of terrifying facehugger encounters. You can watch it above.The upcoming films is directed by Fede Álvarez (Don’t Breathe and 2013’s Evil Dead), produced by Ridley Scott and written by Álvarez and his longtime collaborator Rodo Sayagues.The trailer sees Cailee Spaeny’s Rain Carradine lead a team of scavengers to the derelict space station Romulus, and within moments, they find themselves dealing with flying facehuggers, a trauma-inducing chestbuster, and a fully grown Xenomoprh drone.Other cast members include the likes of David Jonsson (Industry), Archie Renaux (Shadow And Bone), Spike Fearn and Aileen Wu.

Alien: Romulus has teased the return of the franchise’s frightening facehuggers.Alien: Romulus was directed by Álvarez (Don’t Breathe and 2013’s Evil Dead), produced by Ridley Scott and written by Álvarez and his longtime collaborator Rodo Sayagues.The trailer’s opening scene sees the inside of dimly-lit, hexagonal corridors within a space station. From there, someone is heard crying for help while another voice says “No, I don’t know what it is”.

Dead By Daylight has teased that the 1979 sci-fi horror film Alien will be crossing over with the game – with more to come soon.Alien is one of the most requested crossovers from Dead By Daylight‘s community.A new teaser shows that there appears to be a new Killer as well as a map.The clip, posted today (August 1), shows the film’s title fading into the foreground with locations including the Nostromo’s table where the creature is “birthed” from crew member Kane’s chest.Hints that the Xenomorph will feature in Dead By Daylight were first uncovered four months ago. Kendrick Pejoro, franchise management coordinator at Disney Studios, liked a reply from a fan on the social media site X (FKA Twitter).“Alien for DBD’s 7th anniversary this year,” was the fan’s guess, which Pejoro responded to, but developer Behaviour Interactive didn’t acknowledge the interaction.