He’s already said he’s not directing the ‘Alien: Romulus’ follow-up—but he had a very good reason for wanting to write its script.
Alien: Earth just dropped a chest-burstingly good episode ahead of next week’s finale (read io9’s recap here), but fans are just as eager to learn what’s next for the sci-fi series on the big screen. One who would know is Fede Álvarez, who helmed last year’s Alien: Romulus and is closely involved in its sequel. He’s not directing it, but he’s helping choose who does—and he co-wrote the script with a bit of important Alien history in mind.
While some fans (ahem) think Alien 3 is actually pretty entertaining, it is a universally acknowledged truth that the 1992 David Fincher-directed release does two characters from 1986’s Aliens extremely dirty.
After Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), her sorta romantic interest Hicks (Michael Biehn), her sorta adopted daughter Newt (Carrie Henn), and mangled heroic android Bishop (Lance Henriksen) escaped the dreaded LV-426, Alien 3 tells us, they end up crash-landing on a prison planet.
