With its ninth installment on the way, Disney hopes Alvarez can bring the Alien franchise back to its place as one of the premier franchises in Hollywood.
Filmmaker Fede Alvarez is developing a new installment in the Alien franchise, and with the WGA strike now concluded, he has taken to social media to tease it a little. Sharing a photo of his bookshelf, Alvarez showed fans a glimpse at the Alien "bibliography" he's working with, which includes reference books and companions to existing movies, as well as an omnibus of old Alien comics stories.
The books shared include: The Art of Alien: Isolation; Aliens: The Set Photography; Giger's Alien, The Art of Ron Cobb; The Making of Alien; Alien Vault; Alien: The Blueprints; Aliens: The Original Years vol. 1 ; Alien Covenant: David's Drawings; and Aliens: Colonial Marines Technical Manual. In the caption, the filmmaker quipped,"Some of my bibliography when developing my Alien film. Did I missed anything?"The Alien movies are interesting because they represent not just a beloved horror and science fiction franchise, but one that has frequently struggled to nail its tone and identity, leading to numerous aborted projects over the years.
Alvarez's Alien movie is set for a theatrical release next August. The road to that release date also took a surprising path, as the movie was originally being developed as a Hulu-exclusive. It's likely that the success of Prey influenced that decision. Prey actually took the stop spot on the US home entertaniment disc sales chart last week, with its Blu-ray release managing to edge out bigger, more expensive movies do to the film's strong word of mouth.
No specific details about the film's plot have been revealed, yet it was previously teased as following"a group of young people on a distant world, who find themselves in a confrontation with the most terrifying life form in the universe."
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