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| Directed By | Fede Alvarez |
| Written By | Fede Alvarez, Rodo Sayagues |
| Cast | Cailee Spaeny, David Jonsson, Archie Renaux, Isabela Merced |
| Produced By | Ridley Scott, Michael Pruss, Walter Hill |
| Cinematography By | Galo Olivares |
| Film Editing By | Jake Roberts |
| Music By | Benjamin Wallfisch |
| Studio | Scott Free Productions, Brandywine Productions, TSG Entertainment |
| Distributed By | 20th Century Studios |
| Franchise | Alien Franchise |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Release Date | August 12, 2024 (Los Angeles) August 16, 2024 (United States) |
| Filming Location | Hungary |
| Runtime | 119 minutes |
| Rating | R |
| Budget | $80 million |
| Gross | $225.2 million |
| Based On | Characters by Dan O'Bannon & Ronald Shusett |
Overview[]
While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonists come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe.
Plot[]
In 2142, a Weyland-Yutani Echo space probe investigates the wreckage of the USCSS Nostromo. The probe departs for a research facility after collecting a large organic object containing a xenomorph.
Rain Carradine, an orphan, works with her adoptive brother Andy, a reprogrammed synthetic human, at the colony Jackson's Star. After her contract is forcibly extended by Weyland-Yutani, her ex-boyfriend Tyler persuades her to join an expedition to a derelict spacecraft to retrieve cryostasis chambers. These chambers will allow Rain and her friends—Tyler, his pregnant sister Kay, cousin Bjorn, and Bjorn's girlfriend Navarro—to escape to the planet Yvaga. Andy's ability to interface with the onboard computer system is crucial for the mission. Rain is hesitant to send Andy but is convinced by Tyler and Andy to allow him to assist. They fly the hauler Corbelan to the spacecraft, which is revealed to be the Renaissance - a Weyland-Yutani research station divided into parts Romulus and Remus, a reference to the Roman legend. While retrieving stasis chambers, Tyler, Bjorn, and Andy accidentally revive frozen facehuggers and trigger a lockdown. To override the lockdown, Rain installs a chip from a damaged android, Rook, into Andy, granting him access to the station while also updating his thought processing and general efficiency. Unbeknownst to the others, this also changes his "prime directive", making him loyal solely to Weyland-Yutani.
As the group flees the chamber, a facehugger latches onto Navarro. Rain reactivates Rook, who discloses that the xenomorph and its clones killed the station's crew. While Tyler tries to remove the creature, Rook warns it may have implanted a "seed". Despite Andy's attempts to stop him, Bjorn flees with Navarro on the Corbelan. A chestburster emerges from Navarro, killing her. The Corbelan, with Kay and Bjorn aboard, crashes into the Romulushangar, jeopardizing the station's orbit and leaving less than an hour before it collides with Jackson's planetary rings. Kay is knocked unconscious from the impact, and the chestburster escapes into the ship. She regains consciousness and runs into Bjorn, who discovers the xenomorph gestating into its adult form and attacks it with a stun baton. The xenomorph stabs Bjorn in the eye with its tail, eventually killing him after its acidic blood drips onto Bjorn's heart.
Rain and Tyler navigate to the bay while avoiding the facehuggers. Kay escapes the Corbelan but is stalked by the xenomorph trying to lure the others into a trap. Andy refuses to unlock the door so as not to put Rain and Tyler at risk, and they helplessly watch as Kay is critically injured and dragged away. Andy finds samples of a compound scientists had extracted from the xenomorphs, which Rook calls the "Prometheus fire", intended to "perfect" humans. Rook insists the samples must be brought to the colony, preventing the Corbelan from leaving without them. Rain and Tyler arm themselves with rifles, but Andy warns them not to use them, or else the xenomorph blood will melt the ship's hull, causing an explosive decompression.
Rain and Tyler rescue Kay from a cocoon, but Tyler is killed, and Andy is incapacitated. Badly injured, Kay injects herself with the compound during their escape. Rain returns to the Romulus to remove Andy's control chip, thus restoring his loyalty to her. Rain disables the ship's gravity, allowing her to shoot the xenomorphs while keeping their blood away from the hull. Rain and Andy make it back to the Corbelan just before the station crashes into the rings, destroying Rook.
As Rain and Andy prepare for their trip to Yvaga, Kay, affected by the compound injection, gives birth to a rapidly growing human–xenomorph hybrid. The hybrid kills Kay and injures Andy, but Rain manages to eject the creature into Jackson's rings. She places Andy in a chamber and records a log about their hoped-for arrival at Yvaga before entering stasis herself.
Cast[]
- Cailee Spaeny as Rain
- David Jonsson as Andy
- Archie Renaux as Tyler
- Isabela Merced as Kay
- Spike Fearn as Bjorn
- Aileen Wu as Navarro
- Rosie Ede as WY Officer
- Robert Bobroczkyi as Offspring
- Trevor Newlin as Xenomorph
- Annemarie Griggs as Voice of MU / TH / UR
- Ian Holm as Rook
- Daniel Betts as Rook
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