Alien gets a standalone feature from Evil Dead director

It is not game over yet for the Alien franchise. A new film will get underway with director Fede Álvarez of Don’t Breathe and The Evil Dead. The film will be heading in a new direction where the audience will have some new screams in space.

Álvarez, a rabid fan of the franchise pitched the idea to the original director Ridley Scott a few years back. At the end of 2021, Scott inquired if Álvarez was still interested in the project. Álvarez obliged and this time around Scott will be producing the film. Having done the original Alien back in 1979 and the two most recent in the franchise Prometheus and Alien: Covenant, Scott now passes the torch to Álvarez.

According to 20th Century’s division president Steve Asbell, “It was just a really good story with a bunch of characters you haven’t seen before.” The studio picked up the project purely on the strength of Álvarez’s pitch.

The project will fall under Hulu. The Disney-operated streaming service wants to make more than 10 films a year with Alien being one of them.

“It’s not a film that has to be all things to all people with those gargantuan budgets. They get to be authentically what they are. And this is closer to its genre roots.” says Asbell

Fede Álvarez has gained notoriety of late for directing the films Don’t Breathe and the remake of The Evil Dead. He’s fresh from the new installment of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre now streaming on Netflix.