The Alien: Romulus promotional circuit continues to heat up as we move into the summer of the film’s release. Movie news and ticketing outlet Fandango has just released a new production photo showing our protagonists ready to venture deeper into the Renaissance station. Rain (Cailee Spaeny) and Tyler (Archie Renaux) hold rifles at the ready as Andy (David Jonsson) stands beside them. If you look at the top part of the image you can see part of the Xenomorph hive resin on the walls and ceiling.
Fandango also recently posted another summer movie article after polling their fans on the most anticipated films, with Alien: Romulus near the top in multiple categories.
Those with keen eyes may also notice Cailee Spaeny’s character Rain sporting new Reebok footwear, the bug stomping choice of the future. This was commented on by 20th Century Studios head Steve Asbell:
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True.
I always just assumed the first Xeno was/became a queen, seems like the easiest and most logical outcome.
That Cameron idea is a bit too Looney Tunes over the top stupid for my tastes.
If we want to impose some limits, it's also possible that each soldier gets only one shot at it.
We could even attach an additional limit and speculate that it's fatal to the soldier, akin to a honeybee sting.
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No queen? Egg morph.
Queen? Lay eggs.
Egg - facehugger - drone/queen - more eggs. Simple and effective.
This series already has enough going on.
Romulus could shed more light on what happened off-screen in Aliens. It became a tangent, but it started out relevant.
And this is NOT that discussion. It has devolved into how and when the Hadley's Hope colony became overrun.
LMAOOO!!!!!
It's a discussion pertaining to the possibility of whether or not we see Egg-morphing on Renaissance station vs. a Queen hidden somewhere with its depths. Which began with comments of the Hive material after a set photo of the hive was released thus informing this conversation.
There are plenty of other threads available for this discussion.
How many weeks between the fall of Hadley's Hope and Ripley and co. showing up again?
The Alien Soldiers wouldn't want to start collecting too early or else they risk everyone who'd been captured attempting escape (or at least just being lousy guests - "Help, help, help me!!" for days on end).
Ahem, or if she wasn't ready for a couple weeks yet, there's risk of the human hosts dying of dehydration or starvation while cocooned.
You think they'd want the Queen at Egg-producing capacity before they start making real moves to build numbers.
But I'd assume most of the colonists were taken alive.
Not sure if all bodies were incinerated though, I mean they would have at least burned the initial chestburster victims, not sure about other casualities that may have happend, got to figure that atleast some were outright killed and not used as hosts.
Yup, I guess nothing went to waste. Has anyone ever counted the PDT dots on the screen? 🤣
Then the aliens must have taken the corpses of Marachuk, etc. back to the nest for some reason. While it's possible that the PDTs are disabled/extracted from the colonists after death, Drake told Gorman that they found no bodies. I presume that includes the morgue. Unless they were cremated, which is also possible.
"How did the Alien egg get on board thread?"
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#Close up of his battered face
........"yesss"
1). Russ Jordan is facehugged and dragged outside of the derelict.
2). There are multiple facehuggers found in medlab, two are alive after being removed prior to embryo implantation.
Personal interpretation; Those huggers came from the team that were responding to Annie's mayday. Reason: Whether eggmorphing took place or not, we saw that all colonists PDT's (personal data transmitters) were collectively located in the sublevels of the atmosphere processing station.. how likely is it that colonists with small arms and seismic survey charges could venture in and survive retrieving facegugged comrades when fully armed Colonial Marines barely got out in one piece? Not very. Therefore, those dead huggers dropped off the faces of people brought into medlab the same way Kane was in 'Alien'. Expanded media (whilst not canon) shows that this is the case (see 'Aliens: Newt's Tale').
So for point one in the chat debate, no the first alien that burst from Russ did not have to be a queen, there were several xenos loose in the colony prior to establishing a hive.
Where does the queen come from? Two possibilities;
1: it was born a queen (as per Alien 3)
2: it was a regular xeno that went through a metamorphosis.
This is unclear, as there are so many unknown variables. It's sometimes easy to assume we 'know' things about the creatures life cycle based upon years of exposure to expanded media, but everything in the comics etc followed the life cycle as presented in the second movie.. if we just take what we see in the first three movies alone, and filter the rest out, the truth is it's not so black and white or clear. We can debate it till the cows come home, but there is no definitive answer. Did a regular xeno become a queen? Possibly, we saw that xenos in the second movie continue metamorphosis over time (comparing warriors to big chap, losing their head shell etc) it's entirely possible. Was it born a queen? Also possible, we see a queen chestburster in Alien 3. Why is this not definitive proof that the same happened in 'Aliens'? Because there's also the possibility that the queen was a unique evolution to that particular circumstance/environment, given the creatures ability to adapt/survive, the most 'optimum' method of reproduction if you will. Once it was a queen, it may be the case that it produces others like it (hence alien 3). It could be that regular xenos egg morph hosts, and these special ovomorphs, fed on the nutrients of the dissolving host become a sort of 'royal ovomorph'(Alien 3 assembly cut also supports the possibility of superfacehuggers) as per 'special eggs' in real world ant/bee hives. Hell, we're all assuming that the queen was even born from a human host. Could just have easily been born from a colony pet. We simple do not know.
My personal fan theory? Russ and the response team were brought into medlab with parasites attached. They removed two, killing the hosts, and opted not to do the same to the other but monitor their conditions. As per 'Alien' we know that those hosts would have 'recovered' with memory loss (their dead parasites placed in tubes to be studied) and likely been distributed around the colony when they popped. (So 4 xenos in the mix) I like to think this played out like 'Alien' - 4 big chaps, taking hosts, perhaps eggmorphing as a means to increase numbers (the last stand at operations clearly wasn't only 4 creatures, especially when we know the colonists successfully eliminated at least one xeno with seismic survey charges) During metamorphosis, one of the 4 began changing into a queen, with the others becoming 'warriors' (hate this term) building the hive. In this form, the queen can indeed lay 'royal eggs' explaining the queen chestburster in Alien 3.
It's probably the most infamous deleted movie scene in history at this point.
And the hosts don't even necessarily need to be alive either, given Brett's headbite wound. The Alien just needs the meat. I assume the Runner was just the busiest lil guy somewhere in the bowels of the prison facility, preparing the house for mother.
Speaking of which, I always took it as that Queen was capable to control not only adult ones but facehuggers inside the eggs too. My assumption is that she "ordered" a facehugger to hatch trying to sneakily take out Ripley
Either way, the result of was infestation of colony.
It would sure be nice for the topic to go back to Romules eh?
The colonists "bagged one of the Ripley's bad guys" with their small arms fire. And that one was presumably a soldier that wasn't immobilized by a giant egg sack.
And my vulnerability statement also included the word colonists. Not marines with explosive tippped rounds that their pulse rifles fire, colonists, civvies with small arms fire. Not much of a threat to a Queen even without eggs.
We were specifically discussing the queen's vulnerability to attack, which you seem to think the eggs would prevent. How was I being pedantic in my interpretation?
My point was simply thus, colonist find eggs, eggs open, alien drones then exist. I.e a possible reason for how infestation starts.
Yep.
Mechanics of it I mean.
Eggmorphing gets us a queen egg and an adult soldier to both protect her and bring her hosts.
Yes. Eggmorphing makes little to no sense really, unless I am missing something.