In an exclusive chat with Dexerto, Alien: Romulus director Fede Alvarez shared a lot of love for the Terminator franchise – but he didn’t want to make the same mistake as Dark Fate. After all, it’s been seven years since Alien: Covenant, and a whopping 45 years since Ridley Scott’s original sci-fi movie masterpiece. Rather than making Romulus a continuation of the Alien timeline , horror helmer Alvarez and his longtime collaborator Rodo Sayagues are venturing back to the good stuff, with the new movie taking place between Ridley’s Alien and James Cameron’s Aliens.
When asked about the timeline ahead of the movie’s release, the filmmaker told Dexerto that the “most important thing” was that he “didn’t want it to be a continuation.” This is different from Terminator: Dark Fate, the latest and final chapter in the action movie franchise, which dropped in 2019 but continued the events of the first (1984) and second (1991) entries. “I didn’t want it to be chapter seven, right? I felt like, at this point, you need the new audience to come in.
And if you tell them it’s part seven, or when things are too connected to the previous movies, you are left with, I don’t know, Terminator: Dark Fate,” he explained. “I enjoyed it, but I could tell that a young audience would be completely confused about all these people that everybody gets so excited about. “When nostalgia takes over, and suddenly there’s a 70-year-old character that shows up and the au.