Alien: Romulus has arrived in cinemas, bringing the terrifying Xenomorph back to the big screen.
If you're wondering how long the new Alien movie is, we're here to help. Alien: Romulus runs for a confirmed 118 minutes and 51 seconds, or nearly one hour and 59 minutes if you prefer.
That's in-line with the majority of Alien movies, with James Cameron's Aliens remaining the longest at 137 minutes (or 154 minutes if you go by the director's cut).
Alien: Romulus doesn't have any credit scenes, so you can cut off a few minutes from that runtime if you need to.
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Alien: Romulus, which stars Cailee Spaeny and David Jonsson, takes place between the events of the first Alien and its sequel Aliens.
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Clarifying the movie's place in the timeline, director Fede Alvarez revealed it "needed to take place a few years after the first one".
"I don't know why I keep hearing that, maybe because I said it, that it takes place between 1 and 2," he added.
"It's true, but I see it more as it takes place after 1, which means the same... It's kind of the child of both movies combined visually, aesthetically and story-wise."
The director has also revealed that he turned to website Xenopedia when writing the movie in order to keep the franchise's canon.
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"I really tried to make an effort as much as I can to respect the canon not only of the movies, but beyond. It's hard because there's contradictions in the same world once you expand to the novels and everything," he explained.
"Thank god for Xenopedia and things like that, that was always open on my laptop when I was writing to just go and check like: 'What era were those androids created?'. If you want to know, the information is there because someone wrote a novel about it."
Alongside Spaeny, the movie will star Madame Web's Isabela Merced, Industry's David Jonsson, Shadow and Bone's Archie Renaux, Aftersun's Spike Fearn, and Skin's Aileen Wu.
Alien: Romulus is out now in cinemas.
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