We’re checking again in with the world of sci-fi after a busy weekend. 

We’ve gotten one other take a look at Alien: Romulus and a few fascinating perception into Physician Who. It was a giant weekend for sequels, and there’s extra of these to come back. Right here’s the newest. 

Meet your facehugger

April twenty sixth has been known as Alien Day as a reference to LV-426, the planet the place the Xenomorph first made its look within the authentic film. This yr additionally occurs to be the forty fifth anniversary of the unique movie’s launch, so author and director Fede Álvarez gave us a take a look at a few of the particular results getting used to create the upcoming Alien: Romulus. 

Álvarez confirmed off the good little mechanical facehugger. It’s operated by a distant management, so it will possibly truly chase down potential victims. The Alien sequels have been pretty hit and miss, however the truth that Romulus options sensible results like this has me greater than a bit excited to test it out. 

Russell T. Davies on illustration in Physician Who

The subsequent season of Physician Who will probably be Ncuti Gatwa’s first outing because the beloved character, nevertheless it’s a return to business-as-usual for showrunner Russell T. Davies. Again in 2005, Davies labored as showrunner on the Physician Who reboot sequence, and he continued engaged on the present all by 2011 when star David Tenant left the sequence. 

Talking with RadioTimes on the London premiere of the brand new season, Davies opened up about his expertise engaged on the present and commented on the reward he’s acquired for bringing LGBTQ+ illustration into the lengthy operating sequence. “And I type of [am] reasonably bemused when individuals say you’re representing issues now, as a result of I believe that’s simply individuals I reside with, and know and love.” He went on to say, “I believe Physician Who’s an awesome huge open door for everybody to come back and see.” Hopefully Davies’s new tackle the sequence recaptures the previous magic of his authentic run. 

Dune 2 and Godzilla X Kong win extra on the field workplace

This previous weekend was a giant one for sci-fi sequels. In accordance with Selection Dune 2 handed a significant field workplace milestone. The film has formally raked in $700 million globally. On the identical time, Godzilla X Kong crossed the $500 million mark, and it’s been in theaters for a full month lower than Denis Villeneuve’s Dune sequel. That is nice information for followers of each franchises, in addition to Warner Bros. after all, nevertheless it does imply that a bit extra gas simply acquired tossed on the endless sequels development. That mentioned, if the glut of sequels we’ve gotten over the previous decade had all been nearly as good as Dune 2, I in all probability wouldn’t be complaining. 

Jeff Bridges is returning to Tron

In accordance with Deadline, there’s some huge information for Tron followers: Jeff Bridges is coming again. He’ll presumably be reprising his position from Tron and Tron: Legacy, however since we nonetheless don’t have many particulars concerning the upcoming film, there’s all the time an opportunity that he’ll be enjoying an alternate model of Kevin Flynn.

Tron: Ares has been in some stage of growth ever since Tron: Legacy debuted all the best way again in 2010. Evidently, the film has gone by a number of iterations, however the present model is being directed by Joachim Rønning and stars Jared Leto alongside Greta Lee, Evan Peters, Hasan Minhaj, Jodie Turner-Smith, Arturo Castro, Cameron Monaghan, and Gillian Anderson. That’s fairly a solid, and on October twenty fifth, 2025, we’ll see if they’ll pull off a Tron sequel that does the franchise justice.