Alien: Romulus
Warning: Major spoilers for Alien: Romulus below!
Nobody involved withthe originalAlienmovieexpected it to become a franchise.
Instead, the ending ofAliensaw Ripley and her cat Jonesy going into hypersleep and hoping for rescue.
Aliensrevealed Ripley was drifting in space for 57 years, and that her daughter Amanda died in the interim.
Thisreference confirms that instead of just floating in space for decades, Ripley’s shuttlewasrecovered by Weyland-Yutani.
Ripley being discovered between the events ofAlienandAliensimplies a lot.
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Presumably, after they recovered her pod she wasn’t considered any kind of priority by Weyland-Yutani.
Luckily for her, this didn’t come to pass.
Alien: Romulus is the seventh film in the Alien franchise. The movie is directed by Fede Álvarez and will focus on a new young group of characters who come face to face with the terrifying Xenomorphs. Alien: Romulus is a stand-alone film and takes place in a time not yet explored in the Alien franchise.
