Alien: Romulus is a 2024 science fiction horror film directed by Fede Álvarez, who co-wrote the script with Rodo Sayagues. It is the seventh installment in the Alien film series, set between the events of Alien (1979) and Aliens (1986). The film stars Cailee Spaeny, David Jonsson, Archie Renaux, Isabela Merced, Spike Fearn, and Aileen Wu as six downtrodden young space colonists who encounter hostile creatures while scavenging a derelict space station from which they plan to steal cryostasis chambers to navigate to another planet.