Alien: Romulus
The following contains spoilers for Alien Romulus, now playing in theaters.
It’s a homage to everything that came before as if all the previousAlienfilms worked together for something new.
Due to Ian Holm’s passing, Rook is voiced by Daniel Betts.
Alien: Romulustakes place roughly twenty years after the original movie.
At some point between the two, the sinisterWeyland-Yutani company retrieved the Nostromo to be brought back for examination.
What they were looking for, however, ties the originalAlienmovie to the plot ofPrometheusandAlien: Covenant.
Weyland-Yutani hoped to find something to help them locate the Xenomorph.
This led to them finding the actual alien from the original movie, just as Ripley left it.
Navarro is the unlucky first death inAlien: Romulus, who’s killed by the chestburster.
Shortly after,Bjorn and Kay find a cocoon on the wall, demonstrating how the chestbursters mature.
TheAlienfranchise could’ve left the black goo behind for good, butRomulusreintroduces it.
Weyland-Yutani Corp recovered the Xenomorph from the Nostromo wreckage and extracted the black goo from it.
This is what happens to Navarro inAlien: Romulus.
A point of confusion throughout theAlienmovies, however, is how the facehuggers track their targets.
Not much is known about their physiology, but it’s clear that they have no eyes.
