ALIEN Day is now less than a week away. I love ALIEN Day. The event is a global celebration of all things related to 20th Century Studio’s property, ALIEN. It is an official 20th Century Studios and fan oriented celebration around the world. We will see some announcements for sure, be they official or simply just the fans expressing their joy at humanity reaching the stars and our fragile interstellar civilisation being in danger of destruction by a deadly torso breeding parasitoid organism; along with Humanity’s response to combat the potential devastation it may unleash upon us. ALIEN Day has been celebrated ever since it was inspired by fan Alaric Hahn who proposed the date 4/26 (April 26) back in 2015. The date is inspired by the planet appearing in the ALIEN series, designated as “LV-426”. In following years, Fox adopted it as the date to be an opportunity to promote various official and licenced announcements. Typical announcements in the past included comics, books, action figures and a plethora of other merchandise items on (or around) this date. Recent years have seen declining involvement and support from Fox/20CS but fans around the world have increasingly adopted the day as one of celebration.

Nonetheless the date remains a potentially perfect opportunity for some official promotional content. Notably, for the upcoming movie, ALIEN Romulus. ALIEN Romulus will be released on August 16 (August 15 in Australia, where I live). The chance of new content relating to ALIEN Romulus being made public is good. Last year’s ALIEN Day saw director Fede Alvarez release a promotional image of the movie. This year, it’s reasonable to expect more information given the release of the movie in less than four months. Hey, if no such announcements are made, fans will go about their own celebrations. There’s always a cinema showing the original Ridley Scott ALIEN movie on this date, somewhere at least. Let’s go watch that!

-windebieste.