Overview
- Opening in theaters on November 7, the film holds early scores near 89% on Rotten Tomatoes and about 69 on Metacritic.
- Director Dan Trachtenberg commits to a no-humans premise, with Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi as Dek and Elle Fanning as a Weyland-Yutani synthetic.
- This is the franchise’s first PG-13 installment, a rating enabled by depictions of alien and synthetic combat that avoid red blood.
- Alien-connected elements appear through Weyland-Yutani and synthetic characters, and Trachtenberg has confirmed there is no Xenomorph in the movie.
- Producers say an Arnold Schwarzenegger return remains possible but unconfirmed, and trade coverage notes a tease before credits rather than a traditional post-credits scene.