Filmmaker James Cameron introduced the sci-fi/horror world to the United States Colonial Marine Corps. (Colonial Marines), and added to the lifecycle lore with the Alien Queen in “Aliens,” and with Noah Hawley‘s “Alien: Earth” being the latest iteration of that story of the xenomorphs, how does he feel about it?
Well, Cameron shared his thoughts with Empire Magazine in their latest issue (via Slash Film) and seemed to like the blending of elements throughout the different movies alongside new ones, “I like it. I think they took a lot of the DNA from my movie, from [Ridley Scott‘s] movie. And a couple of things from some of the later movies, they’ve got a little bit of that crazy POV thing racing down the corridors from [David] Fincher‘s film. I think it’s good. It’s great creative recombinance in action, but with its own swerve, which is basically what I did. You gotta celebrate the new with the old.”
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Audiences have also been embracing “Alien: Earth,” leading to Disney/FX/Hulu to announce that Hawley’s series (set years before the events of Scott’s original “Alien“) would be getting a second season, something we long assumed given the showrunner/creator’s ambitious plans to potentially go for “five seasons,” if the will and budgets are there for that plan to be executed we believe audiences will buckle-in.
While Cameron had once dismissed “Alien vs. Predator” in public statements in the wake of his “Alien 5” project getting slidelined for it (since then has come around on the non-canonical creature feature crossover), more recently, he has shared praises with “Alien: Romulus” director Fede Álvarez and “Predator: Badlands” director Dan Trachtenberg, giving those projects notes/impressions in various stages of creation/post-production.
On the film front of the franchise, Álvarez and his creative partner Rodo Sayagues have penned a script for the untitled sequel to “Alien: Romulus,” as a way to keep their lead characters alive (a nod to when Cameron left 20th Century Fox to make “Alien 3” without him only to have three major characters from “Aliens” killed-off in the opening sequence), as both Cailee Spaeny (“Civil War”) and David Jonsson (“The Long Walk”) are poised to reprise their roles of Rain Carradine and Andy in the follow-up sci-fi horror adventure.
Filming on season two of “Alien: Earth” is said to be kicking off next year in London, which likely means we could be getting this next round of episodes before that “Alien: Romulus” sequel is ready to be unleashed in theaters.
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