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Fede Álvarez Will Not Direct ‘Alien: Romulus’ Sequel
Fede Álvarez and Rodo Sayagues have completed a script for the sequel to last year’s Alien: Romulus, but Álvarez won’t be in the director’s chair this time around.
“We just finished the script, actually, for a sequel for Romulus, but I’m gonna pass the torch on this one as director,” the filmmaker told TooFab last night on the red carpet at Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights in Hollywood.
Álvarez will produce the new installment alongside original Alien director Ridley Scott. They’re currently seeking a new filmmaker to direct.
“I think that’s usually what has happened, except for Ridley, filmmakers come, you make one and you pass the baton to the next one,” Álvarez said. “But we wrote the story because we really love what we started with Romulus and we want to continue the story. We love the story, and now we just want to find a director that really wants to go for the jugular.”
Álvarez plans to helm an original film he wrote with Sayagues. “I want to work on a personal project that me and my co-writer, we’ve been keeping on the back burner for a while and we feel it’s the right time to go and work on an original.” He adds, “But I can’t tell you anything about it.”
Cailee Spaeny and David Jonsson, who starred in Alien: Romulus as brave colonist Rain Carradine and her synthetic brother Andy, respectively, are expected to reprise their roles in the sequel.
“I think it’ll be so exciting to go with characters you know from this movie, to a place in the Alien franchise that we’ve never been before, and to discover things that you’ve never seen before,” Alvarez previously teased.
The trailer for the upcoming found footage horror movie Sundown seeks to determine whether its haunting is demonic or dementia.
The found footage nightmare is set to premiere at Mad Monster Party in North Carolina and Houston Horror Film Fest in August.
In Sundown, “Mary, whose husband has recently died of dementia, claims his spirit is haunting her house. When her estranged son Chris learns that Mary believes she is being haunted, he arrives with his filmmaker friend Bill and a spiritualist named Clarissa with the intention of proving to Mary that it’s all in her head. They soon discover the truth is far more disturbing than they could have ever imagined.”
Damian Maffei (The Strangers: Prey at Night, Haunt), Emily Sweet (V/H/S/95, Castle Freak), Chris Alexander, Kelly Waters, Erich Rausch, and Michael Leavy (Terrifier, Stream) star.
Sundown is directed by Marcus Slabine (The Dark Offerings) and Brian Klingborg, who also wrote the screenplay.
“The second I read Brian’s script, I knew I wanted to direct it. It had everything I love about horror: grounded characters, mounting tension, and a mystery that keeps getting darker the deeper you go. I feel when found footage is done right, we wanted every scare to feel earned and every performance to feel real, so when the horror finally hits, it hits hard. I’m incredibly proud of what our incredible cast and crew accomplished, and truly can’t wait to unleash the film onto the world,” Slabine said in a statement.
Klingborg adds, “The inspiration for SUNDOWN came from a true story that Chris shared with me about a death in his family. The strange and unsettling events surrounding that experience stayed with me and became the foundation for the screenplay. I wanted to explore the fragile line between love, grief, and horror, and how loss can leave us questioning what’s real. In an incredible twist of fate, we ended up filming SUNDOWN in the very house where the real events took place, adding an authenticity and atmosphere that we could never have recreated anywhere else.”
The upcoming film is not to be confused with Sundown, the vampire revenge movie from Rebekah McKendry.
Check out the trailer and poster below.
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