I know I'm late to the party but so far I like what I'm seeing from Romulus both in terms of the teaser and Fede talking about the movie. I would say before this I didn't necessarily have strong feelings on Fede Alvarez either way. I liked the Evil Dead remake he did, but it doesn't touch the original trilogy. However it was one of those cases where, as much as I enjoyed his remake, I always wondered how much of that was a credit to him and how much influence Raimi/Campbell had as producers and gatekeepers of the franchise. I thought Don't Breathe was a pretty solid horror movie and like many others I never got around to his Girl in the Spider Web movie because reviews weren't very good. However even without seeing that film I feel like he was in a tough position making a sequel nobody really wanted to a really good Fincher movie without any of the cast returning, so people's interest was already lukewarm to start with. But hearing him talk about Alien it does feel like he "gets" it.
We've had 8 films with this creature before (6 if you want to remove the AvP ones) yet this is really the first time someone thought of a chase scene with multiple facehuggers chasing character(s) through narrow hallways. And I'm shocked it took this long because this is probably the worst nightmare fuel I could imagine in this world. I would much rather come face to face with the adult Alien and take the loss right away, than being put through trying to outrun 20 finger spiders wanting to impregnate my face. I know a lot of the discourse around this film before we see it will be how close it goes to Alien Isolation - a very well loved game. Personally I think it's great to bring the horror back. As much as I love Aliens, it did nerf the creatures and past that point they rarely felt as scary as the initial film. Romulus seems to try and bring back the suspense of Alien and Alien 3 and I'm all for that. Definitely curious to see how they tie other films into this since Fede said they wont ignore the other movies, having heard some of the rumors of the plot I will say I'm both sceptical and intrigued.
It definitely feels like they're trying to do for Alien what Prey did for Predator and so far it feels like they are making the right moves to make that happen.