Alien: Romulus will contain a nod to the 2014 survival-horror game Alien: Isolation. Director Fede Alvarez said recently that the Creative Assembly game taught him a lot about horror, and he is honoring the game with a little Easter egg in Alien: Romulus.
"The movie is set up in a way [that] every time something bad is about to happen, you will see a phone," he said on the Inside Total Film podcast. "In the game, every time you knew there's a phone you'd go, 'Fuck, I'm about to go into some bad set-piece.' It's the same thing here. You'll see they're planted strategically throughout the film. When you see the phone, it's like: Brace for impact."
Alvarez went on to say Alien: Isolation was an experience that "made me see that Alien could truly be terrifying and done well [today]."
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