Alien: Romulus - Fede Alvarez (Evil Dead) to write/direct
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Biggest down side to it I think, that and maybe the cast being a bit young and interaction between them.
Personally really like the aesthetic though obviously is borrows heavily from the previous material and games, but they really pulled off the aesthetic well in what we can see in the trailer IMO.
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Thanks for that, it actually makes me feel more interested.
Context does mean everything.
Soldato
Liking the latest trailer, looking forward to this.
Soldato
Outside of the initial "haven't we seen this all before with obvious 'nods' to Alien, Aliens & Alien 4 so far, thats my initial take-away too. Where is the diversity in age with no obviously older folks seen and with the cast all 'looking' (no idea about real age) to be in their mid 20's? There must be a reasonable plot point for such a choice I would hope, but such a tiny age spread amongst the cast just makes it feel odd, like its a "Made for Young Adults" version of an Alien film or something.
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Soldato
Looks nice visually, but the actors look out of place
Too young
Too young
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seems to be a Colony ship like Covenant.
The beauty about Alien was cast. Just average Joes you would meet at a truck stop. Which was the whole point. They were transporting material.
Love the low tech feel.
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Soldato
My feelings too unfortunately
The great thing about alien and aliens is the characters and how believable they were.
This lot don't exactly look up to the task of fighting off xenomorphs
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Liked the trailer and it can’t be worse than the last 2 films in the franchise.
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It certainly has the feel of alien with the atmosphere and visuals.
The cast kinda ruin that though.
Like you say though, can't be any worse than the last few attempts
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Alien Romulus: Kids in Space
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IIRC it's been shown in the films and especially clear in the likes of the aliens books that the technology varies massively depending basically on:
When it's set.
Where it's set, further out from the main corporate and military hubs the older it gets, and even the military hubs might be old/outdated.
The people who are using it - the average people might have old reliable stuff, the military might be using newer but more rugged stuff, the corporate heads might have the very best at least near the centre of their power/wealth..
It's one of the things I've always quite liked about the franchise, it reflects what it probably would be like, as you want everything to be as tried and tested as you can get so changes will be really slow in major technology, and likely a bit at a time, so a new drive might initially be fitted in test ships alongside a known good design, whilst lesser updates very slowly filter out. Whilst things like stations and planetary outposts will be largely standardised (IIRC LV427 is said to be a standard design) using parts/modules that are likely interchangeable and kept in use because they're cheap to produce.
The Aliens stations/ships are basically along the lines of the closer to the main bases of operation where the execs live the "newer" they looks (even if literally next door there might be another station that is much older and grubbier), and the further out/lower importance you get from those centres of the corporate hub the more generic and basic the technology as it's not needed day to day and WY is known to basically run everything on the sort of profit loss calculation that in our history has led to all sorts of disasters in "far away places" and "foreign lands" out of sight of any of their government's oversight or investors eyes. Hence a WY exec might get the latest top of the range ship that is the equivalent of a Motorhome as built by BMW and styled by Ferrari, whilst the employees out on the edge get the equivalent of a 50 year old Volvo truck with a bed in the back, a leaky exhaust, a cracked windscreen and bits of tape holding the seat cushions together.
Soldato
Don’t forget that all the USCMC’s equipment was built by the lowest bidding contractor that could meet the requirements and Wayland Yutani considers all employees expendable if there’s profits to be had.
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When you look at the ages of a lot of actors from up until about the late 80s you realise how many of them looked old when they might only have been 40, there are some great comparisons of how actors from different time periods looked at the same age (there were some actors that basically looked and played the part of 60-80 year olds for about 40 years
).A quick look suggests that the actors in this are at least 25-30 in age, whilst Weaver and Cartwright were both 30 when the original film came out and IIRC Ripley was meant to be a middle ranker on a fairly large ship whilst Lambert was the ships navigator (a reasonably important position).
Watching the trailer again it looks like they're meant to have grown up on one of the colonies and presumably have passed university/got jobs that involve access to space travel and want off the dead end so probably around the same age Ripley would have been when she started working for WY's space ops (the timeline shows she was around 28 when Nostromo took off for it's last voyage).
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Yup
IIRC Prometheus showed what sort of tech was available at the bleeding edge years before the events of Alien, meanwhile the equipment that the Colonial Marines were using in Aliens wasn't much advanced over the old Nostromo in Alien despite a 70 odd year time lapse.
Looking it up Prometheus (luxury bleeding edge ship) was launched in 2091
Ripley was born in 2092
Nostromo answered the (warning) call in 2122
Ripley is recovered in 2179 and goes back to LV427 meeting Hicks, Newt and co.
Ripley is cloned in 2379
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