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Fay Watson

Alien: Romulus star confirms the new movie’s timeline, and sends plot speculation into overdrive

Aliens/Cailee Spaeny in Bad Times at the El Royale.

Hype for Fede Alvarez's Alien movie is pretty colossal with Ridley Scott already giving it high praise. Now, we finally know when it sits on the franchise’s timeline, and it’s got us speculating what this might mean for the plot of Alien: Romulus. 

Cailee Spaeny, who is set to lead the new movie, gave Variety the details, confirming it takes place between Alien and Aliens. "It’s supposed to slot in between the first movie and the second movie," she said. "They brought the same team from Aliens, the James Cameron film. The same people who built those xenomorphs actually came on and built ours. So getting to see the original design with the original people who have been working on these films for 45-plus years and has been so much of their life has been really incredible."

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