The news that Alien: Romulus will avoid Ridley Scott’s Alien prequels proves that the franchise’s timeline has as many misses as it does hits. The Alien franchise’s story is uneven at best. While director Ridley Scott’s original Alien (1979) is a masterpiece of claustrophobic horror, David Fincher’s Alien 3 (1992) is an atypically weak effort from the talented filmmaker that feels excessively bleak, too thinly plotted, and, crucially, un-scary. Similarly, while James Cameron’s Aliens (1986) is an action-forward sequel that many reviewers found even better than Scott’s original movie, 1997’s Alien: Resurrection was a pointless sequel that failed to get the franchise back on track.
Now, the news that Disney’s upcoming Alien: Romulus will ignore Scott’s pair of divisive Alien prequels only underlines just how flawed the franchise’s timeline is. Alien: Romulus was already said to be a standalone adventure that had no direct connection to the franchise’s most recent outings, Prometheus (2012) and its 2017 sequel, Alien: Covenant. However, little else was known about director Fede Alvarez’s addition to the franchise canon. Now, the time period that Alien: Romulus is set in has been revealed, and it proves a harsh reality about the response to the prequel plot that Scott established in his two most recent franchise additions.
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