This article contains spoilers aplenty forAlien: Romulus and the whole franchise.
I admire its purity, a robot says during an infamous scene inAlien.
Ian Holms synthetic science officer is of course referring to the organism (or xenomorph asAlienslater defines it).
It would seem directorFede Alvarezand hisAlien: Romulusco-writer Rodo Sayagues would agree.
Their new seventh entry in the mainline Alien franchise is a love letter to nearly everything that came before.
(Like us, they seem to generally excludeAlien vs. Predatorwhenever possible for matters of taste and decency.)
So without further ado, lets dig into the many easter eggs and references inAlien: Romulus!
This at least seems likely after watching the very opening of theRomulus.
The titles then continue over a more urgent but familiar collection of shots of an autopiloted ship coming awake.
It mustve attached itself to some Nostromo remnants and built a nest inside.
This sets the tone for the myriad easter eggs toAlien.
Here it enjoys breakfast alongside Cailee Spaenys Rain and David Jonssons android Andy.
We at last see how well it works against a facehugger (effective!)
and a full-grown xenomorph (makes it only bleed a little acid, much to Bjorns regret.)
By that we mean Ash suggests this perfect organismis incredibly intelligent and formidable, and not merely a bug.
This is what went down with Dallas in the directors cut ofAlientoo.
Meanwhile Bretts fate is clarified when a xenomorph obliterates Tylers face after taking him into the air.
For food or fun, were never sure.
In other words, the end ofAlienbut bigger.
This also begins with Rooks plentiful exposition.
It becomes a hybrid of a human, a xenomorph, and an Engineer fromPrometheusand technicallyAlien: Covenantas well.
This creature is birthed out of her in a violent grotesque way, similar to the C-section/abortion scene inPrometheus.
What would have happened if they had been allowed to grow up?
It would have been hard to live in a colony where theres no future, the director said.
Human beings, were not cut out for that.
Was there ever much daylight on LV-426?
Romulusalso evokes several iconic set pieces inAliens.
However, it is mostly during the third act ofRomulusthat theAliensinfluences become overt.
However, perhaps the intense aggression of the Engineer species (or the xenomorph?)
leads it to kill mama before going classic movie monster on Rain.
LikeRomulus, this game is set in the more than 50-year gap between the first two movies.
Like the Sevastopol,Romulus Renaissance Space Station has frequent old school-looking communication boxesor glorified telephone booths.
These brief moments emulate the fleeting instances of bright yet cold orange sunlight being gleaned outside the Sevastopol.
Its an 80s color palette befittingBlade Runner.
