Fede Alvarez‘s Alien: Romulus is one of the most successful horror films of the year, grossing over $350 million in theaters. Now streaming on Hulu (just in time to watch it with grandma over Thanksgiving!), the success of the latest sequel proves just how much fans love the series. There are currently nine movies out and there are no signs of stopping. ridley scott It aims to return to the universe he started with and is a direct sequel to it. Romulus There is a high possibility that it will come. first two starring roles sigourney weaver While films like Ellen Ripley are considered classics of sci-fi horror, the sequels that followed have been hit or miss, but always enjoyable. Alvarez knew this, as he already had experience adding to the popular horror franchise with the 2013 film. evil dead. With that in mind, he I tried to find a way to connect with the previous one Alien: Romuluswhether you noticed it or not..
‘Alien: Romulus’ reveals what happened to the Xenomorph in ‘Alien’
In 1979, Ridley Scott changed science fiction horror forever. alienmade famous by Sigourney Weaver and created one of the biggest jump scares in horror history with the chestburster scene. The ending stuck landing as Weaver’s Ripley, the sole survivor, has to fight the Xenomorph one last time. Initially, Scott was going to kill the last girl right then and there, but thankfully she survived and shot the creature out of the airlock…or so we thought.
Sigourney Weaver is not participating. Alien: Romulusas The events of the movie take place between alien and alienRipley is floating somewhere in space in hypersleep. What happened on the Nostromo is mentioned in the wreckage of another ship, the Renaissance, where a rebooted android named Luke narrates the story. The Xenomorph, thought to be dead, is brought aboard the Renaissance, but all aboard the ship are killed.. Luke is not just an android, he is the same model as the original Ash alien. Ash was played by Ian Holm He played Ash in the 1979 film, but after the actor passed away in 2020, the filmmakers received permission from his family to build a CGI version of the character that looked exactly like Ash.
Andy uses Ripley’s most famous line from Alien
What happened in alien hasn’t happened yet Alien: RomulusSo you can’t connect to them like you can in other cases, but alienThat doesn’t mean Fede Alvarez couldn’t find a way to show respect with a wink. james cameronA 1986 action-horror masterpiece. Sigourney Weaver was the villainous heroine again alienperhaps even more so this time. She is given more powerful weapons such as a grenade launcher, and in the finale she faces off against the Xenomorph Queen in a cargo loader.
in alienRipley isn’t the only one who survived this time. Here, she saves an orphan girl named Newt (Carrie Henn), Wounded Marine Hicks (Michael Biehn), and the brilliant android Bishop (Lance Henriksen), ends up being torn in half by the Queen. in alienthere’s a scene where Hicks helps Ripley operate a giant gun that she’s never used before. It was a small but touching moment as he stood close to her, put his arm on the gun, and taught her how to aim it. in Alien: Romulusour hero, Rain (kylie spaeny), I found myself in a similar situation. archie renault ax‘s Tyler recreates the exact same shot.
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I never want to see Ellen Ripley again.
Sigourney Weaver doesn’t need aliens, and aliens don’t need her.
if alien It was one of the biggest jump scares ever, alien It had one of the most amazing lines. In the final act, Ripley appears in a cargo loader exosuit as the Queen approaches Newt. As the camera zooms in, a defiant and furious Ripley yells, “Get away from her, you bitch!” in Alien: Romulusthey just couldn’t help themselves. Rain’s surrogate younger brother is an android named Andy (david johnson). In one scene, Andy repeats this line, first saying, “Get away from her,” and then, after a moment, saying, “You bitch.” It really can’t get any more on the nose.
The ending of ‘Alien: Romulus’ is reminiscent of past movies
Contains plenty of melty Easter eggs Alien: Romulus. The big one is black goo, a pathogen known as Z-01. prometheusa movie that takes place decades before the events of . alien. On the Renaissance, Weyland-Yutani scientists were working with black goo in the laboratory.and getting it back became David’s reprogrammed mission. In the end, Rain gives it to Kei (Isabella Merced). Kei, who is mortally injured, injects Z-01 to heal the wound. It works, but with dire consequences.
The black goo mutates, and in the shocking final scene, Kei gives birth to a terrifying human-alien hybrid. This begins a battle between Rain and a giant creature known as the Offspring, giving the film two more callbacks. First, in the same way alienRain wears the exact same spacesuit that Ripley wears when she fights the Xenomorph at the end of the movie. The Offspring resembles the alien-human hybrids seen in the movies. Alien: Resurrectiona xenomorph queen gives birth to an alien who is part xenomorph and part Ripley clone genetics. This leads her to see Ripley as her mother. descendants of Alien: Romulus This is a more frightening design, but just the same Alien: Resurrectionit will be sucked into space until it diesalthough not in such a disgusting way.
I’m sure there will be more alien movies. As long as we keep paying, Hollywood will happily keep producing more. This is what it will look like in a few years Alien: Romulus Used as an homage to form a new sequel.
Alien: Romulus Streaming on Hulu in the US
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- release date
- August 16, 2024
- director
- Fede Alvarez
- cast
- Kailie Spaeny, David Johnson, Archie Renaud, Isabella Merced, Spike Fern, Eileen Wu, Rosie Ehde, Soma Simon, Bence Okeke, Victor Oriz, Robert Bobrodsky, Trevor Newlin, Anne-Marie Griggs, Daniel Betts
- runtime
- 119 minutes
- writer
- Fede Alvarez, Rodo Sayaguez, Dan O’Bannon, Ronald Shussett
- distributor
- 20th century
