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Patrick Tatopoulos Plans Bug ‘Colony’ Battle

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Special effects maven-turned-helmer Patrick Tatopoulos (Underworld: Rise of the Lycans) is in negotiations to come aboard Participant Media and Summit Entertainment’s eco-horror tale The Colony, reports Heat Vision. Stacy Title and Jonathan Penner wrote the script, which was rewritten by David Lee Johnson. Colony revolves around a group of survivors forced underground by the next ice age. There, they must fight to preserve humanity against a savage threat. It has been described as The Birds with bugs. Production begins in the fall. Tatopoulos is responsible for the creature designs in such films as I Am Legend, I, Robot and the first two Underworld installments.

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Two New Images from ‘Alien: Romulus’ Spotlight the Heroes and the Giger-Faithful Monster

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Fede Alvarez’s (Evil Dead, Don’t BreatheAlien: Romulus will be unleashed in theaters nationwide on August 16, and Entertainment Weekly brings us two new images today.

The first image you’ll find below gives us another fresh look at the film’s Xenomorph, with Alvarez promising the outlet that it’s the most H.R. Giger-faithful Xenomorph of them all.

Entertainment Weekly writes, “… Alvarez promises [the Xenomorph’s design] is closer to H.R. Giger’s original creation than any other iteration.” The late H.R. Giger was of course integral to Ridley Scott’s Alien, designing the iconic monster the franchise is centered on.

The other image you’ll find below gives us a look at two of the human characters from Alien: Romulus, Archie Renaux’s Tyler and Cailee Spaeny’s heroine Rain Carradine.

Head over to Entertainment Weekly for their full preview of the upcoming film.

Here’s the full official plot synopsis for Alvarez’s Alien: Romulus, which comes in the wake of Disney reviving the Predator franchise in spectacular fashion with last year’s Prey

“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: LegacyPacific Rim Uprisingleads the cast alongside Isabela Merced, David Jonsson, Archie Renaux, Spike Fearn and Aileen Wu.

Alien: Romulus takes place in between the first two films. It’s been described as “an original standalone feature,” one that “will focus on a group of young people on a distant world.” 

Fede Alvarez co-wrote the script with Rodo Sayagues (Evil Dead). Ridley Scott is on board as producer for the film, the first movie in the franchise to be released by Disney.

Xenomorph in ‘Alien: Romulus’. 20TH CENTURY STUDIOS

(L-R): Archie Renaux as Tyler and Cailee Spaeny as Rain Carradine in ‘Alien: Romulus.’. 20TH CENTURY STUDIOS

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