New Alien: Romulus Footage Just Gave Birth at Comic-Con

Friday nighttime astatine San Diego Comic-Con, Hall H was infested by aliens. Facehuggers jumping crossed the room. Xenomorphs chomping successful our faces. Yes, these things happened connected screen, but it was thrilling nonetheless.

The Alien franchise returned to Comic-Con this twelvemonth to speech each astir the upcoming Alien: Romulus, directed by Fede Alvarez and starring Cailee Spaeny. They were connected manus on with co-stars David Jonsson, Archie Renaux, Isabela Merced, Spike Fearn, and Aileen Wu. However, since a last trailer was released specified days ago, what could they perchance show?

Well, 2 scenes which were erstwhile shown astatine CinemaCon (read astir them here), and a caller 1 that some enhanced the Alien mythology portion besides being incredibly graphic. Read connected if you privation to spot each astir it, but if you privation to prevention yourself for adjacent month, see this your last warning…

As the country opens, we spot Isabela Merced’s quality Kay connected the ground, knocked retired cold. She wakes up and dilatory climbs down a ladder to the remainder of her ship. She creeps down the hallway. A large BOOM comes retired of obscurity scaring us. She steps successful thing and we spot it’s the tegument of a tiny Xenomorph, which is ne'er good.

On a adjacent wall, we spot that precise organic-looking astir rib-like structure. In the different Alien movies, we spot these each the time, but ne'er knew precisely what that are, oregon were. Now we know. There’s an opening connected it that looks, well… let’s accidental it’s beauteous vaginal. Kay begins to measurement person erstwhile Bjorn (Spike Fearn) grabs her from behind. He covers her mouth, telling her to beryllium quiet. He cautiously walks down the precise atmospheric hallway and grabs, basically, a cattle prod. He lights it up and shoves it up into that aforementioned vaginal opening.

Chaos ensues. There are sparks, screaming, fires, conscionable wide madness. He pulls it retired and sees that it has been burned through. Acid drips from the opening. A spike pops retired of the opening and quickly–pop–skewers him successful the head, sidesplitting him. After helium drops, a afloat Xenomorph begins to look from the opening. The caput first, past the hands. The fingers dilatory open. Merced’s quality has been watching this and tries and tries to get retired but the doorway won’t open. Finally, the afloat Alien emerges and it’s pissed. The doorway opens, she runs done it, trips, and falls down a shaft.

That went into a fuller trailer, overmuch similar the ones we’ve antecedently seen. Then, successful the country astatine Comic-Con, arsenic the sheet was astir to talk aft the trailer, the lights cut. Here’s what happened next:

Alien: Romulus opens connected August 16.

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