Warning: This piece contains full spoilers for Alien: Romulus. Hold your pulse rifle and motion tracker ready, because Alien: Romulus is now in theaters. The newest entry in the long-running sci-fi horror franchise comes from director Fede Álvarez, best known for 2013’s Evil Dead remake and the original horror film Don’t Breathe.
The acclaimed director takes the Alien series back to its roots by calling back to the 1979 original with another nail-biting, blood-soaked, haunted house in space. However, the new movie also left us with some serious questions, which we’ll try our best to answer here. Whether you’re a Weyland-Yutani veteran or if this is your first time in zero gravity, we have the questions (and answers?) you’ve been waiting for.
And be sure to also check out our review of Alien: Romulus as well! What Happened to the Xenomorph From Alien 1979? The opening of Alien: Romulus shows a science team from the nefarious Weyland-Yutani corporation finding the wreckage of the Nostromo, the ship all the action happened on in Ridley Scott’s original film. They come across what appears to be a xenomorph fossilized in some sort of mineral, and cut the specimen out of it. Later on, a familiar face from that film (we’ll get to that in a bit) says that the company found and recovered the xenomorph Ellen Ripley ejected into space after escaping the Nostromo’s self-destruct sequence.
So, are these two different creatures? How did a fossilized xenomorph get onto the.