{"id":36741,"date":"2024-09-13T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=36741"},"modified":"2024-09-09T21:14:53","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T01:14:53","slug":"alien-romulus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=36741","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Alien Romulus&#8221; (2024) directed by Fede \u00c1lvarez \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z091324zview_alienromulus.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><i><b>Alien Romulus<\/b><\/i><\/em> (2024)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>Fede \u00c1lvarez<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Fede \u00c1lvarez, Rodo Sayagues; <\/strong>based on characters by <strong>Dan O&#8217;Bannon, Ronald Shusett<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Cailee Spaeny, David Jonsson<\/strong><strong>, Archie Renaux, Isabela Merced, Spike Fearn, Aileen Wu, Rosie Ede, Daniel Betts <\/strong>and <strong>Ian Holm <\/strong>(facial and vocal reference)<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>They went looking for a new life. It found them.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the year 2142, on the distant mining planet LV-410, workers live on a planet barely hospitable.\u00a0 When the mining company, Weyland-Yutani, unilaterally extends all miners contracts, six friends come up with a plan to escape.<\/p>\n<p>The team consists of&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rain (Spaeny) &#8211; an orphan whose only &#8220;family&#8221; is&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Andy (Jonsson) &#8211; an android programmed by Rain&#8217;s late father to protect her at all costs<\/li>\n<li>Tyler (Renaux) &#8211; Rain&#8217;s ex-boyfriend and brother to&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Kay (Merced) &#8211; Tyler&#8217;s pregnant sister<\/li>\n<li>Bjorn (Fearn) &#8211; Kay&#8217;s lover<\/li>\n<li>Navarro (Wu) &#8211; Bjorn&#8217;s adopted sister<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The plan is to board a derelict spacecraft recently discovered in low orbit.\u00a0 Andy will interface with the ship&#8217;s operating system.\u00a0 Then they will access the crio-chambers that will allow them to escape to civilization.<\/p>\n<p>Easy-peasy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But the best laid plans often go sideways.\u00a0 The friends quickly realize they&#8217;re in a fight for their lives when they discover xenomorphs on the ship.<\/p>\n<p>And the xenomorphs discover them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Alien Romulus<\/em> takes place between <em>Alien<\/em> and <em>Aliens<\/em>.\u00a0 There are many easter eggs \/ callbacks to both of those films (and others in the franchise including video games).<\/p>\n<p>Fede \u00c1lvarez&#8217;s direction is top notch.\u00a0 He was the right choice to revitalize the franchise.<\/p>\n<p>David Jonsson is amazing as Andy.\u00a0 I&#8217;d never seen Jonsson act before, but he is someone I will watch for.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><em><strong><i><b>Alien Romulus<\/b><\/i> (2024)<\/strong> <\/em>rates 4 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z091324zview_alienromulus2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"336\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alien Romulus (2024) Director: Fede \u00c1lvarez Screenplay: Fede \u00c1lvarez, Rodo Sayagues; based on characters by Dan O&#8217;Bannon, Ronald Shusett Stars:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,53,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-horror","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36741"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36769,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36741\/revisions\/36769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}