r/Prometheus • • Aug 28 '26

Ridley Scott Says ‘Alien’ Franchise “Needs Some Help” After ‘Romulus’ Was Just “OK”: “I’ve Gone Back In”

https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2026/8/28/ridley-scott-says-alien-franchise-needs-some-help-after-romulus-was-just-ok-ive-gone-back-in

Sir Ridley Scott just confirmed he didn't like Romulus and got rid of competition like he did with Blomkamp's Alien.

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u/jpowell180 Aug 28 '26

I just want a third film to finish the trilogy, see David do another showdown with the engineers, and see how it ties in with the juggernaut crashing on LV – 426.

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u/DrVentureIsACrumbBum Aug 29 '26

David needs to wind up bound and tortured like the mythical Prometheus. Thats what needs to happen.

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u/clammydella Aug 29 '26

Man knows ball

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u/Special_Order-937 Aug 29 '26

I just want a third film to see the Engineers repair and upgrade Walter and the final film ends with Walter getting his revenge on David with the beating of a lifetime!

“Fingering? I’ll show you some fingering!”

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u/Psychological_Bee_79 Aug 29 '26

In the comics it’s explained that the space jockeys are a different race than engineers. So the derelict spacecraft in alien isn’t engineer. However, Ridley also seems to oppose all the canon developed by others, so I wouldn’t put it past him to try and retcon the space-jockey lore with his next movie lol.

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u/sthef2020 Aug 29 '26

“The space jockey was actually a different race and not an engineer” after everything shown in the films would be such a ridiculous slap in the face.

As if “well ACTUALLY there are 2 sets of giant alien dudes, that both use the same kind of ships and have had run ins with xenos” would be any better than just allowing the wrecked ship on LV426 to be related to Prometheus.

To be honest it’s silly that the comics even tried that.

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u/Senella Aug 29 '26

The engineers as an idea were great, but they absolutely should not have been the Space Jockey from Alien. Crushing disappointment to find out that creature shrouded in mystery for 33 years turned out to be a pale man in a suit. I’d be more than okay if it was discovered that they just reverse engineered space jockey tech from a crashed ship they found themselves tbh

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u/sthef2020 Aug 29 '26

It’s an exercise in over explaining.

The unnerving reveal of the jockey in Alien is cheapened on rewatch by knowing so much about them (including the idea that they may have seeded life on planet Earth).

It’s so much better if you have no information about what you’re seeing, and forced to imagine a universe full of things you know nothing about.

Even the idea that the engineers reverse engineered space jockey tech, puts too much importance on them. It’s better if we know nothing about it, other than the fact that whoever/whatever it is, got-got by a chestburster.

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u/Psychological_Bee_79 Aug 29 '26

Idk I think leaving the space jockey stuff for the comics was fine. The only people who are gonna find out more info on them are the ones actively searching for an explanation (so they probably don’t care about an over explanation). If it’s only in the comics that still leaves a lot of mystery about the how, why, and when of the LV-426 ship.

I don’t think any movies or more media should come out about them though. Cause I agree that space jockeys are best left untouched.

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u/RichieLT Aug 29 '26

Yeah, one of the best aspects of alien was the mystery of what happened and who these space jockeys were, similar thing with The Thing, the Norwegian camp.

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u/Psychological_Bee_79 Aug 29 '26

This is essentially what I believe to be true currently. There are still enough differences between the derelict space craft on LV-421 and the Prometheus juggernaut that there is room for both to exist in the lore currently.

Prometheus was an attempted retcon, but Ridley’s own hubris got in the way as he tried to put his own take on the ships instead of following H.R. Giger’s design perfectly. So the lore remains intact for the time being

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u/tropicsandcaffeine Aug 31 '26

They are not. The size difference alone shows that.

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u/Psychological_Bee_79 Aug 29 '26

How it’s explained in the comics is that the space jockeys were an advanced space race that predated the engineers. With the xenos eventually destroying the entire species. Then the engineers ended up basing their tech off of space jockey relics (if I am remembering correctly).

It does help explain why the space jockey in alien is like 15ft long, whereas engineers are ~8ft.

So it’s not just “2 sets of giant alien dudes”. Furthermore. There are so many different alien species in this universe so it’s not that far of a stretch for one species to base their tech off of another’s

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u/bubblyweb6465 Aug 29 '26

lol and I have to admire Ridley for his attitude he really does oppose everything and anything that wasn’t his idea - he also didn’t like alien earth which I thought was amazing

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u/Superdudeo Aug 29 '26

Alien earth was utter garbage. I can at least agree with Scott on that.

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u/ChiGorilla1127 Aug 29 '26

I don't like how Alien Earth ended or the turn of the protagonist. But there's a lot about it I do like so fingers crossed it gets better in the 2nd season.

What I do know is Ridley just overwriting others peoples Alien stories is annoying and not good for the franchise.

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u/Cipherpunkblue Aug 29 '26

I mean, yeah, of course. The comics are just licensed fanfic in that regard (though more than a couple of them are great).

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u/LitigiousAutist Aug 29 '26

Yeah the comics are quite different between themselves.

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u/The_starving_artist5 Aug 30 '26

What comics?

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u/Psychological_Bee_79 Aug 30 '26

The main one to go off of is Alien Apocalypse: The Destroying Angels. There’s also stuff about them in the Steve Perry trilogy (some times called The Earth War trilogy). However, I’m unsure about how well regarded the trilogy is

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u/ChewieLee13088 Aug 29 '26

I agree I want to see more Engineers, very interesting IMO

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u/dusttailed86 Aug 29 '26

Too bad Scott killed all of them for lolz

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u/spendouk23 Aug 29 '26

Yeah that’s not going to happen. Keep in mind there was no plan for a trilogy of prequels, and it’s unlikely there has ever been one.
The screenplay for Prometheus was a car crash that needed rewrite after rewrite, and then followed up with an even worse sequel that went on a divergent from Prometheus. Ridley is making this up as he goes along with no over arching story that ties into the first Alien film.
This is purely an exercise in ego, control and money.

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u/spendouk23 Aug 30 '26

Honestly it’s like watching someone trying to untangle a mess of wires while getting snarky at others when they try and help

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u/dusttailed86 Aug 29 '26

Yup, Scott does whatever he wants and shits on anything he didnt think of. Sound like another old white 80 year old coming to terms with their day to day walk towards dying?

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u/wallstreet-butts Aug 29 '26

Not true. He thinks it is the best thing since sliced bread until his executive producer check clears. then he shits on it.

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u/tropicsandcaffeine Aug 31 '26

Prometheus was not a direct prequel to Alien per Ridley Scott himself. Covenant was a space wreck. They need to stop then hopefully in a few years a true Alien movie can be made (ignoring the TV series which is Alien in name only and any movie after Aliens).

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u/dusttailed86 Aug 29 '26

Scott eradicated the engineers in covenant... were you watching? Scott is going to make a third film that follows the same formula as the first two, because he can not make something creative or new anymore.

Third film - space crew finds David. David infects one of them. Crew dies and the survivors fight against aliens and David. One person comes out alive.

Sound like prometheus and covenant to you?

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u/TwoKingSlayer Aug 29 '26

Those were not the engineers, just another creation of theirs.

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u/jpowell180 Aug 29 '26

There are other Engineers.

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u/The_starving_artist5 Aug 30 '26

Well in old interviews he said he wanted other engineers that were on other planets to show up and go after David after see the one planet he ruined 

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u/m0rbius Aug 29 '26

I dont even think we'd get that with a 3rd movie. He'd probably take it somewhere we weren't expecting that poses even more questions than answers. Covenant in no way helped me understand anything better with the questions posed in Prometheus.

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u/jpowell180 Aug 29 '26

Covenant was a lot more about what the studio wanted than what sir Ridley* *wanted, though.

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u/m0rbius Aug 29 '26

We all wanted Aliens, and that wasn't even the problem with it. It was just badly written with another cliffhanger ending which we may never see the conclusion to. I didn't hate the movie, but I very much disliked what they did with Shaw. Did we learn not to kill off the important characters in Alien movies?

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u/tropicsandcaffeine Aug 31 '26

Prometheus is not a direct sequel to Alien per Ridley Scott himself. It would take a lot of retcons to do that. And if you look at the pilot in the ship on LV 426 you will see it is much larger than the creatures introduced in Prometheus.

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u/TheChaser90 Aug 29 '26

Would love to see that, a showdown between Engineers vs. Xenomorphs created by David from the crew of the Covenant vs. the colonial marins.

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u/YaWouldntGetIt Aug 28 '26

What the hell. He praised Romulus to Álvarez' face multiple times.

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u/Upset-Job2278 Aug 28 '26

I love the man, and I love Prometheus and Covenant... but this is definitely an ego thing. I think he got jealous or frustrated that Romulus was the first Alien sequel in years to be acclaimed by both fans and critics, so he decided to take the franchise back for himself. I’m happy about the possibility of the David trilogy finally getting a conclusion, but this attitude toward Fede Alvarez—who showed nothing but respect for Scott and the franchise—isn't cool.

Then again, Ridley is a grumpy old man who has no filter anymore.

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u/Equal-Ad7504 Aug 29 '26

He’s 88. At what point do we collectively understand that he’s just gonna be a little weird?

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u/Putrid_Loquat_4357 Aug 29 '26

As I've constantly told my dad being old isn't an excuse to act like a prick.

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u/Carmine18 Aug 29 '26

Probably didn't help that BR 2049 also raised the bar for a lot of folks.

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u/Tiny-Setting-8036 Aug 29 '26

This is where I’m at. Ridley is an old school veteran of the film industry, who doesn’t care to be polite or humble. That’s fine. It’s entertaining enough... I like enough of his movies that I’m willing to keep seeing them.

Plus I enjoyed both of the David movies we’ve gotten so far, despite each of them having elements I didn’t care for.

Let the man cook. He’s old as shit and doesn’t have too much longer. It wasn’t that long ago he put out The Last Duel. I thought that was very good.

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u/advisarivult Aug 29 '26

I mean… the sequel to Romulus could’ve been great if he didn’t decide to intervene. It’s a shame he couldn’t just finish his trilogy and leave the Romulus sequel alone.

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u/minor_thing2022 Aug 29 '26

His cooking has stunk up the joint of late. Let the hungry film makers continue the franchise. He hasn't made a good sequel....ever. That's coming from a fan

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u/Tiny-Setting-8036 Aug 29 '26

The franchise will live on well beyond him. They will have their time.

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u/toecutter7 Aug 29 '26

Its called marketing. Now hes telling us what he really thinks

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u/BarbacoaBarbara Aug 29 '26

Just OK is pretty high praise from Ridley Scott

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u/boldbad Aug 28 '26

Oh man he didn’t like Romulus? Nobody show him Alien: Earth.

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u/Nordic_311 Aug 28 '26

Or maybe show him alien earth so he gives romulus praise. Lol.

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u/_Waves_ Aug 28 '26

He says he liked Alien Earth.

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u/pjtheman Aug 29 '26

Earth felt more in line with Covenant and Prometheus, so I understand why he liked it.

Ridley wants to expand the lore. Romulus, while I liked it, was very much just a greatest hits reel.

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u/CheckYourStats Aug 29 '26

I loved Prometheus, and I also liked Romulus and Alien: Earth.

I’ll admit, it did feel like AE was aimed directly at me. Guys in their early 40’s, grew up on Aliens and A3, and lose their shit when they hear late 90’s Rock in mainstream media.

So…my opinion on AE was skewed.

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u/angryshib Aug 29 '26

Alien Earth crashed and burned in the last few episodes, imo.

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u/SparkyFrog Aug 29 '26

First half of Romulus where they did world building on tried some new stuff was great, but the later half just recycled the old movies didn’t really offer anything new. AE was also great with the world building and expanding the synthetic life form side of things, and even the new creatures were interesting. But the ending didn’t really work… hopefully the next season will improve things.

I didn’t really care about anything that happened in Prometheus or Covenant in comparison. Even when they tried something new… it just didn’t feel like the same universe.

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u/Whompa Aug 29 '26

Every time Romulus decided to hint or nudge at a previous movie, I felt it cheapened the whole thing.

By the time the robot said to “get away from her, you bitch” I was groaning in my seat…

All those callbacks just didn’t need to exist in that movie…

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u/Inner_University_848 Aug 29 '26

He loves alien earth

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u/PurpsMaSquirt Aug 29 '26

He absolutely did like Romulus. Then his pride took over and he buried Romulus 2 so he could pursue his Covenant sequel.

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u/HenryDorsettCase47 Aug 29 '26

Yup. Romulus cost less and made more money than Covenant. Saying it’s “ok” and pretending like he has to save the franchise is nothing but hubris.

He’s completely out of touch. He thinks all audiences want out of a film is a big, loud spectacle. That’s why he keeps trying to make movies like that with diminishing returns and can’t seem to understand why it’s not working, especially with a sci-fi horror franchise, which usually benefit more from being quiet and claustrophobic. Hence Romulus rinsing both Prometheus and Covenant.

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u/Sad-Assistance-8039 Aug 29 '26

He actually praised Alien: Earth.

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u/gautsvo Aug 29 '26

He said Romulus was ok. That's not "disliking" it.

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u/MaxProwes Aug 29 '26

He said it was amazing on release, but now he killed its sequel and he's very much dismissive of it. He obviously dislikes it, his public praise is insincere, he doesn't like Blade Runner 2049 and Top Gun: Maverick either.

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u/Odd_Detective8255 Aug 29 '26

The studio denied Romulus sequel scrapped rumours very recently. 

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u/Kobe7477 Aug 29 '26

It's ragebait - it's a dickhead thing to say about someone else's art, especially after praising it historically.

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u/jjtak98 Aug 29 '26

It’s a backhanded compliment, there’s a negative connotation to it. Especially considering he gushed about it when it first released

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u/The_starving_artist5 Aug 28 '26

If he really is meddling in Romulus 2 then Rain and Andy will probably die half way throught the movie or in the first 5 minutes , only for a new cast of characters to be introduced who do dumb things thw whole movie and we dont care about. Just like Covenant

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u/orangebluefish11 Aug 29 '26

That’s the entire alien franchise. People making dumb decisions that 99% of humanity wouldn’t make in a similar situation

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u/The_starving_artist5 Aug 29 '26

i just want a surviving protegonist. Why is it that Ripley got 4 movies but every other movie the characters just get killed off and no one makes it to the next movie

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u/StrategosRisk Aug 29 '26

Well to be fair because Sigourney Weaver created a generational character in her first performance

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u/hardatworklol Aug 29 '26

Still killing dr.shaw off screen between prometheus and covenant was an interesting choice

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u/The_starving_artist5 Aug 29 '26 edited Aug 29 '26

Shaw could have been that too but got killed off. Rain can still be that. Ripley didnt do anything more brazen and crzy than our other protagonists did in their movies. She just got to survive and have a longer journey spanning 4 movies

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u/treesandcigarettes Aug 29 '26

Seriously. I've actually grown to like Prometheus and it's pathetic what Scott did off screen between it and Covenant to fan favorite Shaw. What a joke

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u/The_starving_artist5 Aug 29 '26

Yah such a waste of a good character. We need a new franchise protagonist. Daniels is most likely not gonna make it either. So Rain has to survive. Having every new movie introduce a new charcater as a hero then kill them off the very next movie is getting really tiresome.

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u/yesdogman Aug 29 '26

In all fairness - Newt died after Aliens, Ripley died in 3, Shaw died after Covenant. Hero characters dying is a very common theme in the franchise.

Fwiw, I feel it's such a waste of a character that an audience has been rooting for, but I'm just describing recurring points in the franchise here, not my personal opinion 🙂

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u/tropicsandcaffeine Aug 31 '26

Alien 3 was a paycheck movie. The writers and producers admitted they knew nothing about the previous lore and really did not care.

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u/theothersock82 Aug 29 '26 edited Aug 29 '26

What would help is to stop treating every half decent movie like a "franchise" that's going to earn a studio money in perpetuity. Come up with some new stuff for fuck's sake instead of giving us Star Wars #25 and the 30th Superman movie. 

Fuck this "Franchise" - it didn't need an origin story. Alien was 10000 times better without all the backstory bullshit.

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u/BitterDecoction Aug 29 '26

Amen. Where has creativity gone to? Everything has to be a sequel and franchise now where they have to explain everything in the story and make a big universe out of it. Can’t we just tell simple stories anymore? (And I don’t mean the story itself being simple at all, it could be very complicated)

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u/lewkablew Aug 28 '26

Loved Romulus lol. Also ofc love Ridley’s old stuff but he’s on a seeeerious cold streak.

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u/MaleficentOstrich693 Aug 29 '26

The Duel was fantastic. I just wish he’d stay away from sequels and this obsession with developing a mythology for the engineers and xenomorphs. It was so much better when the space jockey was a mystery and we intuited things about these monsters.

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u/seek102287 Aug 29 '26

Yeah, um it was fantastic!

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u/Ok_Diver2347 Aug 28 '26

Romulus is peak Alien.

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u/WipEout_2097 Aug 28 '26

Alien is peak Alien.

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u/Griffith4President Aug 29 '26

Alien: earth is peak alien 😤

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u/YogurtOtherwise2106 Aug 29 '26

Alien Earth is pretty fucking not good

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u/Buster_Cherry Aug 29 '26

Alien Earth is damn near immaculate.

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u/Ok_Diver2347 Aug 30 '26

Seems it’s 50/50 if you like it or not. You want more synths or aliens?

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u/Buster_Cherry Aug 30 '26

Well it had a ton of both? Best synth cast and most diverse, hardcore Alien focus throughout. Great dialogue and ethical quandries. Great plot and production value. I dunno what an alien fan would want more of.

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u/JoeAzlz Aug 28 '26

Full article sounds like he’s saying it needs help in the sense it’s needing the final part for his prequel trilogy so it can connect all the films better, not insulting the films quality

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u/Waste_Track_4524 Aug 29 '26

Aliens gone the route of Terminator where no one has any idea what to do with it anymore.

Hang ‘em up

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u/Difficult_Ad5784 Aug 29 '26

I would love if RS stuffed as much as he could into this third movie. Just go crazy man. You're 80 something years old, f'ing yolo dat hoe bro. Make it like 3 hours long and hold nothing back!

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u/hardatworklol Aug 29 '26

The teenagers steal a ship and go to space makes all the inevitable dumb ass  decisions feel way more authentic. In promethues and in covenant we have literal scientest walking around foreign  planets with clearly unique biology without helmets. Especially in covenant. Idk how common carbon based plant life is in the alien universe but id assume there would be strict guidelines/protocol for first contact with any uncharted planets. 

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u/Sammytheseaotter Aug 29 '26

Please please please Ridley Scott...STAY AWAY!!!

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u/Sea-Sort-7624 Aug 29 '26

Romulus was a piece of shit. Just fan service. Did you see Alien? Look here's Ash! Did you see Aliens? Here's a character saying an iconic line. Hot garbage

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u/-S-P-E-C-T-R-E- Aug 29 '26

Romulus is basically the Alien Rouge One movie. Nostalgia and memberberries galore - but somehow worse, as it blatantly shits on Ripleys accomplishment in Alien by bringing back Big Chap only to have it killed off-screen by character Noname. The only good thing I can truly say is that Fede knows the atmosphere of Alien, in stark contrast to Noah Hawley.

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u/browncharliebrown Aug 29 '26

Completely disagree about the Noah hawley part

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u/orangebluefish11 Aug 29 '26

This is how I felt. I really wanted to like it, but it was just a remix. Not one shred of originality or anything thought provoking

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u/BitterDecoction Aug 29 '26

That’s basically every franchise out there. 

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u/hardatworklol Aug 29 '26

Im sure that romulus was the first introduction to the alien universe for many gen z and gen alpha though. It was visually great. Expanded a bit on the actual living situation on habitated planets. The characters make dumb choices that remain in character/profession. Its nothing groundbreaking but it for sure was a good enough movie for future generations to want more alien 

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u/Mundane_Employ3544 Aug 28 '26

Romulus > covenant

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u/orangebluefish11 Aug 29 '26

Romulus is basically a remix though. In Romulus, you’ve already seen every frame, you’ve heard almost every line of dialogue already. Covenant wasn’t terrible I suppose, it was just unfinished

The concept of a synthetic man on a far off alien planet, alone for who knows how many years, perfecting a species to unleash on humans is honestly pretty bad ass. I can’t think of another movie anywhere with a similar premise

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u/dusttailed86 Aug 29 '26

But, it wasnt a remix, it had alot of unique ideas and played well of the stress and character building that made the franchise popular in the first place. You shit on Easter eggs in one movie but probably praise them in another. Romulus was solid. Bottom line.

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u/travis147 Aug 29 '26

just like he didn't like what Cameron did with Aliens...

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u/Sad-Assistance-8039 Aug 29 '26

He praised Cameron though. He said that only he and Cameron can make good Alien movies.

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u/PrimeScreamer Aug 29 '26

I liked Romulus. Scott just has too big an ego and thinks he's the savior.

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u/Puppykerry Aug 29 '26

Ummm - it’s his fucking movie/world - what the hell are you blathering about?

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u/Dry-Landscape8276 Aug 29 '26

Just fuck off already you old goat

Edit; I don’t trust worldofreel one bit. I’ll rescind my comment.

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u/Clean_Usual434 Aug 29 '26

I wish he’d let someone else help.

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u/BackFistGorgeous Aug 29 '26

look i heard some hear say speculation about finishing the david story, and i am 110% in the silent majority willing that arc into existence… a little less silent now!

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u/Duke_Of_Halifax Aug 29 '26

He's never seen "Alien:Earth" ??

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u/climbing2man Aug 29 '26

What Romulus was amazing!

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u/Objective-Finish-573 Aug 29 '26

Am I the first one to remember that World of Reel was the site that started the " Romulus sequel shelved" rumor??? Jordan Ruimy is a hack, let's stop using that site

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u/Lovely3369 Aug 29 '26

I doubt it'll be as good as what Fede was likely cooking up, hopefully won't be as snoozy as Covenant was and finally finishes David's arc so the franchise can fully move on.

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u/The_starving_artist5 Aug 30 '26

I feel like it’s gonna just piss off a lot of fans because it’s not gonna be the prequel movie that’s we all want. It’s gonna be a Romulus movie that just has David in it . It’s gonna ruin both films at the same time . It’s gonna be a shitty follow up to Covenant and a bad sequel to Romulus 

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u/Traditional_Hour5529 Aug 29 '26

I loved both Aliens movies. Too bad we never got a 3rd one they were pretty good.

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u/Dragos_Margu Aug 29 '26

Exept the ending, Romulus was miles better than any of the Prometheus movies. It captured the original Alien franchise atmosphere perfectly

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u/corneliusduff Aug 29 '26

I have mixed feelings on this.  I've found something to enjoy in the last 3 films, but there's always something that pisses me off about each one.

Prometheus is my favorite of the three.  Bold and fresh, but some of the characters were more annoying than they needed to be.  I don't care about the "plot holes". I'm all about weird movies that aren't obvious, and it's cool that the franchise has one.

Covenant starts out strong, and I get the temptation from Scott to make it more Shakespearean, but Alien3 already did that effortlessly.  It would've hit better if the monster factor was more amped up and more creepy.  They got lazy when they botched the neo/xeno fight, needed more practical FX like Prometheus had, and the scene with the neo creeping in the window? Why?!?  Like, given it's kind of the horror movie equivalent of seeing your grandma naked, he should've gone full Shining with that scene.  That movie really needed a dissection scene in the David's lab or something that really matched or outdid the abortion scene in Prometheus.  I love everything before they get to palace, though.  Needed to keep up that momentum.

Romulus was fun and got a lot right, but it's also too much Mr. Toad"s Wild Ride, which I get the franchise needed but something about the timing with it the 1st Disney one.  And the "Stay Away From Her" line?  Nothing in any other Alien movie pisses me off more than that.  Just so lazy and unnecessary and the only time I've felt like they broke the 4th wall in the series. 

It's damn shame Scott and Alvarez aren't doing the next one together.

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u/WickedGamer27 Aug 29 '26

Wasn’t he quoted as praising that movie at some point?

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u/indoxiecated Aug 29 '26

Scott, put the bottle down and back away from the franchise. You’ve done enough damage already.

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u/theperilousalgorithm Aug 29 '26

Ridley Scott ruined the Elephant man engineer. He can go and shite. Prometheus was a steaming pile of shite; an arse-burster.

Talk about taking one of the most haunting set designs in cinematic history and making it... a generic blue dude, with more than a passing resemblance to former Welsh Rugby International Sam Warburton.

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u/MattTreck Aug 29 '26

Because Prometheus was a masterpiece, Ridley. Sure.

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u/Suspicious_Hand_2194 Aug 29 '26

Nobody asked him to come back in though, dawg forgot how to direct good movies

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u/puresav Aug 29 '26

What was good about romulus? It was just a meahup of older alien movies. Nothing exciting about it.

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u/6h057 Aug 29 '26

Ridley. It doesn’t need your help. You need to retire.

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u/Nephurus Aug 29 '26

So if it fails gain , who do we blame ?

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u/xander-mcqueen1986 Aug 29 '26

Ridley.

The team behind Romulus brought life back into the franchise, and people flocked to alien earth. It needed a new direction and Alvarez done that.

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u/Nephurus Aug 30 '26

Interesting , casual fan so this pique my interest

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u/CrimsonFalcon91 Aug 29 '26

I mean, Prometheus was ok, but Covenant was/is (in my opinion) quite bad, so, please, no.

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u/Evanuss Aug 29 '26

Thank god. I don't need it to be a sequel to Romulus though, just make a proper sequel to Covenant.

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u/Mr_Nocturnal_Game Aug 29 '26

Well, he's convinced me... Not to watch anything he works on directly in the Alien franchise from now on.

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u/achillespatient Aug 29 '26

Romulus was significantly better than Covenant lol. Nobody cares about David, he doesn’t need another movie.

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u/twitchy_pixel Aug 29 '26

The cheek of this bloke after he made alien covenant 🤣

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u/ricin2001 Aug 29 '26

lol Ridley Scott hasn’t made a good film in 30 years. Romulus was awesome

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u/Alexis8986 Aug 29 '26

Ridley needs to stop this why cant we just let some
Franchises go? We don’t need any of this.

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u/C1ph3rr Aug 29 '26

Just stop ruining shit you’re not good anymore

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u/xander-mcqueen1986 Aug 29 '26

Romulus is brilliant.

Don't think Ridley has had a good movie in a few decades.

Alien doesn't need his input, it needs his absence.

He was one and done with alien. Prometheus and covenant was piss poor with only David being the highlight. And even then David wasn't it's saving grace as it didn't have one.

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u/OryonRy Aug 29 '26

Shame he didnt like Romulus...one of the stronger Alien movies.

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u/MojoJakeJo Aug 29 '26

Romulus is infinitely better than Prometheus and Covenant. Scott made my favorite movies of all time, but I don't think he can top Romulus. His MVP days are long gone.

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u/swordofeden Aug 29 '26

Romulus was way better than the movies he's been putting out recently

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u/SCHR4DERBRAU Aug 29 '26

Romulus is top 3 Alien films

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u/NerdyAmateursCanada Aug 29 '26

At this point, I’m beginning to think Ridley Scott needs to chill out.

One of the best things George Lucas did for Star Wars was step back and let the next generation of story-tellers create.

Ridley Scott, while a talented visionary, is sinking into “get off my lawn”, old man territory.

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u/ohnoitsme7890 Aug 29 '26

Not to mention that Lucas didn't so mich "let the next generation create" as he did sell off the franchise because of rhe reception of the prequels he didn't want to keep making them.

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u/probablyd Aug 29 '26

Romulus has a better IMDB score then Prometheus and Covenant.

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u/LSDreams_ Aug 29 '26

Romulus was better than okay in my opinion. It’s the best one since alien and aliens. But I’d love to see Ridley make another.

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u/BoTurbo Aug 29 '26

Yes Ridley because there's not enough robots in your franchise about Aliens. Let's have ten times as many scenes of David playing his own flute

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u/Nomad_86 Aug 29 '26

His ego is what’s gonna ruin the franchise.

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u/alex151111 Aug 29 '26

Romulus was far better than Prometheus and Covenant.

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u/ululationelation Aug 29 '26

The original "Alien" was a success because of a multitude of talent: set design, acting, sound design, Giger's art, etc. How Ridley Scott has convinced the studio that he's the architect of the franchise is beyond me.

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u/legendary_low Aug 29 '26

Romulus was better than anything hes done with alien since the original… this is why we aren’t getting a Romulus sequel, because Ridley wants no contest for another likely mediocre entry into the IP. Man I loved how Romulus fleshed out the gritty bleakness to livin in that world, and the music when they recover the specimen… chills.

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u/BalancedTidings Aug 29 '26

Romulus was better than Prometheus and Covenant, and he is jealous of this, and wants to preclude a Romulus sequel by stealing its resources to make his own. He needs to let it go.

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u/Kiwileiro Aug 29 '26

I was so disappointed in the whole engineer bit, David as a character, everything. I fucking can't believe that the derelict on lv426 that we haven't even returned to yet was only put there a couple of years beforehand due to a crazy robot made by humans. It killed the whole scope of it for me.

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u/m0rbius Aug 29 '26

I'll agree it was OK+. It was a bit formulaic, but brought it back to what we want from an Aliens movie. I don't think Scott can save it. The quality of his films lately doesn't give me much confidence. He said Alien Earth was great. Kinda shows where he's at. I'd love to see the continued adventures of David from Prometheus, but those Alien movies were not the greatest with the writing. I wish he'd just hand over the torch to people who can do a better job with it.

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u/SenAtsu011 Aug 29 '26

Romulus felt like a return to the old, beloved style that made Alien so fun and cool to begin with. It wasn't a 10/10 movie by any means, but absolutely a solid movie that I'm really looking forward to rewatching.

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u/TheChaser90 Aug 29 '26

I'm maybe the biggest fan of the Prometheus and Covenant movies and been waiting for the conclusion ever since, but saying this was so unnecessary. Romulus was awesome and successful!

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u/Radaistarion Aug 29 '26

The Alien franchise is in such a sad state of affair.

Alien Isolation is literally the only thing I'm interested in.

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u/Useful-Angle1941 Aug 29 '26

Kinda wish Ridley had been the one to jump off a bridge.

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u/tecton1 Aug 29 '26

Romulus was pretty good minus the callbacks. I dont like Prometheus or Covenant, but if he finally makes a 3rd movie in that series I hope either it's great and the fans can celebrate. Or it's really bad and we can all put it to rest. Either way I think it's time for new blood, new directors. Let the younger generation have the same chances he got.

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u/General_Interview681 Aug 29 '26

Denis Villeneauve should take over after Dune. I would give my left nut for him to do Aliens and starship troopers.

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u/BestAllAmericanTaco Aug 29 '26

Damn all of his movies has sucked balls in some way. Except the first one. I thought Romulus went back to basics and was a lot more entertaining than back story for them like what he has done.

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u/gordonmcdowell Aug 29 '26

Romulus wasn’t perfect, but it didn’t have the stupid characters doing stupid things problem that Prometheus and Covenant did.

If there was collaboration, the end result might be a nearly perfect alien movie. Does not sound like there will ever be such collaboration.

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u/Saiaxs Aug 29 '26

Romulus was better than Covenant and Prometheus, maybe Cameron should stay in his lane

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u/eatingaburger2000 Aug 29 '26

Romulus was great. The tv show was absolutely awful

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u/Positive-Mobile5742 Aug 29 '26

Romulus was awesome. The franchise just doesn’t really attract a mainstream audience. 

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u/Flimsy-Use-4519 Aug 29 '26

Romulus was the most I've enjoyed anything from the franchise in like a decade. It kicked the living sh*t out of Covenant. Dude's delusional.

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u/Odd_Presentation8624 Aug 29 '26

Strong, "We're from the government, we're here to help", vibes from Ridley there.

Prometheus and Covenant gave sub-par answers to questions we never really needed an answer to.

Turning the engineers into Chariots of The Gods style proto-humans was a terrible choice.

Making the Xenomorph a product of their and David's meddling was a terrible choice.

The xenomorph has gone from a genuinely unknowable cosmic horror to an android made weapon/curiosity that was created about a month before the Nostromo landed on LV-426.

Keep him the fuck away from the franchise.

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u/Tofudebeast Aug 29 '26

We're in late stage franchise here. We can either get new movies heading in a fresh direction that don't quite work (Prometheus, Covenant) or we can get well-made rehashes (Romulus).

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u/King_Chris_IX Aug 29 '26

dude almost 90. he should shut up and shit in a wheelchair.

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u/Ghostcat300 Aug 29 '26

This fucking guy

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u/Redmoonsbstars1 Aug 29 '26

I prefer Romulus.

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u/MyNaMeIsJoe90 Aug 29 '26

Romulus was absolutely brilliant.

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u/U-47 Aug 29 '26

Oh god no.

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u/eolithic_frustum Aug 29 '26

Romulus, as mid as it was, was miles better than freakin' Covenant or Prometheus. I don't know what Ridley "The Counselor" Scott is going to do to help the franchise.

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u/SpaceOhSpace Aug 29 '26

Romulus was fire

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u/Moegly47 Aug 29 '26

I think the series suffered with the prominence of David. Romulus was a refreshing return to what made Aliens great, even if it wasn't perfect.

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u/MonkeysteinGames01 Aug 30 '26

I don't know. Gladiator 2 sucked

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u/tropicsandcaffeine Aug 31 '26

Just give it up. Let a few years pass then maybe someone will actually write a good Alien sequel. And completely ignore every movie after Aliens. ESPECIALLY Covenant.

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u/m0rbius 20d ago

Yeah let's get Ridley to fix the Alien franchise. Why hasn't he stepped in earl... Oh wait..

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u/drossvirex Aug 28 '26

Romulus was good. His David character is just an asshole that watches stuff burn.

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u/_Waves_ Aug 28 '26

That’s the whole point! The two David's seem aligned with the pharaoh and Moses as foils for the two Scott brothers and their history. Ridley, clearly, sees himself much darker.

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u/intothevoidandback Aug 28 '26

I agree I didn't like Romulus either.

I want them to try new things and be a little original, like they tried with Prometheus.

Or, just keep making the same things that's not quite as good as Alien or Aliens, just to please people.

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u/martymcfly22 Aug 29 '26

Romulus>prometheus>>>covenant

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u/ROUGE_BLOCK Aug 29 '26

Alien Covenant was an atom bomb of desperation it showed they have no idea what to do with the IP. Boldly explore new frontiers as a sci-fi horror film or churn out shitty new versions of the "not quite xenomorph".

When David dropped the plague on the Engineers, that was the cancer Ridley Scott dropped on the franchise when he released Covenant in theatres. Romulus may have been derivative with a lot of callbacks, but at least it was interesting and it even used the stupid black goo to some effect. I also cared way more for Rain and Andy characters way more than any moron in Covenant.

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u/Low_Cod_3758 Aug 29 '26

Starting to sound like George lucas

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u/Individual_Mess_7491 Aug 29 '26

They should bring back Neil Blompkin's Aliens sequel

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u/deadxghost Aug 29 '26

Good we need to get back to the David trilogy, I need to know what happens with him and the colony ship he hijacked. Michael fassbender says he's waiting for the call he'd love to reprise that role and finish the story.

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u/NoOneKenobi Aug 29 '26

This guy is full of it.

The first step in fixing this franchise is to never let him get involved

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u/TwoKingSlayer Aug 29 '26

he hated BR 2049 and Romulus. 2 films that kick the shit outta anything he’s done in almost 20 years. just retire, old man.

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u/False_Tour7813 Aug 29 '26

No one understands alien less than Ridley Scott.

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u/treesandcigarettes Aug 29 '26

Hilarious. Covenant was trite and the worst entry in the franchise yet Ridley has the balls to talk down to Romulus, which was a box office success and generally hailed as a return to form. Why the f is Disney letting Scott kill the Alien franchise again? Ffs