Filming Wraps on Disney’s First ‘Alien’ Franchise Movie

News has just hit us after the fourth of July holiday that Fede Alvarez’s hush hush ALIEN film for Disney has completed filming. This means we are just one step closer to being taken back into space and seeing what type of Xenomorph we will be dealing with when the film comes to theaters on August 16, 2024; the filmmaker took to Instagram yesterday to celebrate the wrap on principal photography.

Alvarez is directing the brand new Alien movie for Ridley Scott and 20th Century Studios, with Cailee Spaeny (The Craft: Legacy, Pacific Rim Uprising) leading the cast. Isabela Merced, David Jonsson, Archie Renaux, Spike Fearn and Aileen Wu also star.

The project is described as “an original standalone feature.”

THR recently previewed, “Plot details are being kept in a cryochamber, but as opposed to the other movies which focused on adults in corporate, militaristic and scientific roles, this now-ninth installment of the franchise will focus on a group of young people.”

“In this ninth entry in the immensely popular and enduring film series, a group of young people on a distant world find themselves in a confrontation with the most terrifying life form in the universe.”

Alvarez co-wrote the script with Rodo Sayagues (Evil Dead).

Ridley Scott, who of course directed the original classic in 1979 and later returned for prequels Prometheus and Alien: Covenant, will produce the movie via his Scott Free banner.

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