Filmmaker Fede Alvarez has made his mark on the franchise with (now in theatres), starring Cailee Spaeny, David Jonsson, Archie Renaux and Isabela Merced. With director Ridley Scott serving as a producer on the new film, set between the and films, follows Rain Carradine (Spaeny) and her brother Andy (Jonsson) trying to leave their sunless colony. Assembling a group of young scavengers for this escape plan, they find an abandoned spaceship that could be critical to their journey.
But as you expect, their plan results in encounters with terrifying creatures, xenomorphs and facehuggers. In terms of Alvarez's approach to adding to the franchise, which has been a particularly impactful cinematic experience for many, the filmmaker stressed it's about matching the "emotions" of the previous films. "That is the key, to replicate the emotions, not the story, not the characters necessarily, not even the sets," Alvarez told in Toronto.
"It's really about trying to tell a story that evokes similar emotions. The thrills, the scares, the claustrophobia of those films, and that was the main goal for me and everybody involved in this film. To kind of create a film that felt like a good amalgamation of and , but being its own .
.. and having a lot more elements that just transcend those two films.
" Part of that expansion of the franchise is Alvarez's commitment to focusing on the human element of the story, letting the audience spend more time with the characters to understand them, aside from.