“Alien: Romulus” takes the phenomenally successful “Alien” franchise back to its roots: While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group o...

“Alien: Romulus” takes the phenomenally successful “Alien” franchise back to its roots: While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group o…

  • reddig33@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    6 months ago

    Looks derivative. Is there more to the story this time other than “stumble upon Alien, get hunted”?

    • ZozanoEnglish
      5·
      6 months ago

      Did you watch the 2013 Evil Dead reboot?

      It’s about as derivative as derivative gets, and it was fucking amazing.

      The director also worked on this one, so I’m hyped.

      Sometimes remaking the wheel (Prometheus) doesn’t suit the franchise. Give me some “stumble upon Alien, get face raped” please, with extra thrust.

    • UKFilmNerd@feddit.ukOPMEnglish
      4·
      6 months ago

      Apart from young adults on a spaceship/station and a laboratory named Romulus, nothing else has been revealed plot wise.

    • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.mlMEnglish
      4·
      6 months ago

      I’m a fan of the franchise, so I’ll almost certainly see this. But I’m not expecting any real originality … I’m seeing it more like a cover of a classic (which, despite disliking reboots etc, I’m kinda ok with when it comes to classics with franchises … maybe it’s good just to revisit things without a full rewatch?)

    • UKFilmNerd@feddit.ukOPMEnglish
      3·
      6 months ago

      But that’s when this film is set!! (Seriously)

      What else can they do? This looks like it is leaning more on the horror than sci-fi side. Maybe adapt one of the many comics, but would a budget allow for such grand ideas? There have been some great stories where scientists think they have the creatures under control.

      This was one of my favourites. One of the panels had that scientist with an alien on a leash!

      • nymwit@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        6 months ago

        That’s an awesome one! Great backstory for the villain guy.

        Stronghold was another good one - it had a synth that was indistinguishable from the real xenomorphs that could go into the areas where they were farming the things. Not as dark as Labyrinth though.

        • UKFilmNerd@feddit.ukOPMEnglish
          2·
          6 months ago

          The backstory was shocking and insane and Killian’s artwork was amazing, I loved his style. I’ll never forget that one scene where the hero tells the doctor to go to hell, and he simply replies something like, “nope, already been there.”

          I also remember the brilliant artwork of Dennis Beauvis for Aliens: Book Two, which was the first comic I saw when it was serialised in a magazine here in the UK. Another story of a mad military commander who thinks he has the aliens under control, which he can control like an army.