Alien: Romulus Sent Me an Actual Video Tape to Say It’s at Comic-Con

Just arsenic a caller video from Alien: Romulus dropped online, determination was a sound astatine my door. It was an unassuming bundle that held thing glorious: a VHS portion of something from the aforesaid film, and erstwhile I got implicit the excitement of the portion connected its own, I had to spot what was connected it.

The portion was sent by Disney’s selling squad and aft I posted immoderate very excited and well-received images connected societal media, a subordinate of that squad messaged maine and urged maine to ticker the tape. No, it was not conscionable the aforesaid clip that had been released online. There was thing more. I needed to find a VCR. Thankfully, a person of mine—film professional Courtney Howard—messaged maine to accidental her hubby Jeff had 1 astir 20 minutes away. I grabbed the portion and my laptop, and headed to their home.

While I was driving over, Courtney checked the VCR and, unfortunately, it wasn’t working. We spent 15 minutes trying to fig retired the problem—in the meantime contacting different friends successful the “I inactive person a VCR” club, 1 of whom wasn’t location truthful helium couldn’t help, and different who thought he’d mislaid his, but past recovered it—when Jeff yet arrived backmost location aft a run. Jeff, superhero that helium is, revealed helium had a second VCR successful the location and proceeded to get it. (Always beryllium organized, people.) Thankfully, this 1 worked and we enactment the portion in.

First up was a brand-new clip blending footage from this classical quality footage to denote that Alien: Romulus volition person a sheet successful Hall H astatine San Diego Comic-Con 2024. Here’s that clip, which I subsequently tweeted. But that wasn’t each of it. The portion kept going and, similar The Ring, I kept watching. First, the astir caller trailer. Next, that caller featurette. Then, a marque caller clip which I recorded connected my phone… decidedly not arsenic manager Fede Alvarez intended, but surely however Disney selling did.

Pretty awesome. As it was playing I kept reasoning a) Jeff has a widescreen TV that’s stretching this out, and b) I privation I’d turned the measurement up. But nary matter. The benignant of fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants quality of it was the point. And present you cognize each astir it, which was besides the constituent of a precise cool, fun, and archetypal thought from the Alien team. Here are a fewer much images of the VHS.

Alien: Romulus opens successful theaters August 16. We’ll person much soon, including sum of that Comic-Con panel.

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