Story Details For Fede Alvarez's ALIEN Movie and Four Actors Join The Cast
Director Fede Alvarez (Evil Dead) is starting to cast up the upcoming Alien movie that he’s working on. The four actors who just joined the cast include David Jonsson (Industry), Archie Renaux (Shadow and Bone), Spike Fearn (Aftersun), and newcomer Aileen Wu.
They will star alongside Cailee Spaeny and Isabela Merced in the ninth entry in the iconic sci-fi horror series. We also have the first story details to share, and it sounds like they are looking to tap into the young adult audience market.
The film follows a “group of young people on a distant world who find themselves in a confrontation with the most terrifying life form in the universe.”
It was previously revealed that this is a standalone story that is “unconnected” to the previous films. This story is set in another corner of the universe. The pitch that Alvarez initially made is said to be a “really good story with a bunch of characters you haven’t seen before.”
Alvarez will direct from his script written by Rodo Sayagues. Ridley Scott is also a producer on the movie along with Michael Pruss (Boston Strangler) for Scott Free, with Brent O’Connor (Bullet Train), Elizabeth Cantillon (Persuasion) and Tom Moran (The Donut King) serving as executive producers.
Production of the film will start in Budapest on March 9th.