San Diego Comic-Con’s Hall H saw a major event on Friday with a presentation of Alien: Romulus , the latest installment in the Alien franchise and the first under Disney’s 20th Century Studios. Director Fede Álvarez and the main cast provided insights and shared exclusive footage of the upcoming film. Attendees were shown extended footage featuring Cailee Spaeny and her team of astronauts in a red-lit alien lab-incubator.
The scene depicted baby aliens emerging from the walls into water, a nod to the trash-compactor monster from Star Wars . Another clip showed Aileen Wu’s character, Laura, experiencing the series’ iconic chest-bursting scene as a spaceship struggled to take off. The panel included a live performance where puppeteered facehuggers appeared on stage, followed by an actor simulating an alien bursting from his chest.
All 6,500-odd audience members were also given alien facehugger masks. In Hall H, everyone can hear you scream! Facehuggers and chestbusters attacked San Diego Comic-Con for #AlienRomulus . #SDCC pic.
twitter.com/jPPlxjSpAi Set between Ridley Scott’s 1979 Alien and James Cameron’s 1986 Aliens , Álvarez explained that the timeline was chosen for stylistic reasons and to introduce fresh faces unassociated with other characters. David Jonsson plays a synthetic robot similar to Michael Fassbender’s characters in Prometheus and Alien: Covenant .
Álvarez emphasized the unpredictability of the film, noting, “Nothing in the first movie te.