Alien: Romulus Slithers Onto Hulu and Disney+ Just Ahead of Thanksgiving

Sorry, Charlie Brown: there’s a caller Thanksgiving peculiar successful town, and it’s spurting acidic humor and weird achromatic goo successful space. Hulu (and Hulu connected Disney+) person conscionable revealed Fede Alvarez’s Alien: Romulus volition deed the streamer November 21, a week earlier Turkey Day. That means your yearly household statement implicit what to ticker too shot volition beryllium implicit earlier it starts, due to the fact that what amended radical viewing prime than the latest gruesome introduction successful the long-running sci-fi fearfulness series?

When it released successful August, Alien: Romulus earned affirmative reviews and made wealth hand-over-tentacle astatine the container office; its occurrence made franchise originator (and Romulus producer) Ridley Scott anxious to commencement enactment connected the adjacent Alien film. Plus, that FX prequel series, Alien: Earth, volition hopefully beryllium hitting the airwaves successful 2025, and caller reports suggest a re-match with the Predator may 1 time happen. Everything’s coming up Alien!

Here’s a caller trailer released up of Alien: Romulus‘ Hulu debut:

The authoritative synopsis of Alien: Romulus is arsenic follows: “While scavenging the heavy ends of a derelict abstraction station, a radical of young colonizers travel face-to-face with the astir relentless and deadly beingness signifier successful the universe.”

It stars Cailee Spaeny, David Jonsson, Archie Renaux, Isabela Merced, Spike Fearn, and Aileen Wu, and is directed by fearfulness maestro Fede Alvarez from a screenplay by Alvarez and Rodo Sayagues.

Alien: Romulus is acceptable betwixt the archetypal and 2nd Alien movies, with immoderate fans declaring it the champion introduction since 1986’s Aliens. 20th Century Studios is leaning into early-Alien nostalgia with the film’s carnal release, coming adjacent month. In summation to the expected 4K, Blu-ray, and DVD formats (check retired each the peculiar extras here), you tin besides prime up a VHS version—a nifty gimmick aimed astatine collectors who inactive person a moving VCR hanging around, oregon astatine slightest the support abstraction to show an Alien: Romulus tape.

Alien: Romulus is present disposable to rent oregon bargain connected digital; it hits Hulu (and Hulu connected Disney+ for bundle subscribers) November 21, and carnal media December 3.

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