Alien: Romulus is a 2024 science fiction film and the seventh installment in the Alien franchise. The film was slated for release on August 16, 2024. It is directed by Fede Álvarez and co-written by Álvarez and Rodo Sayagues.
Synopsis[]
While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe.
Plot[]
The story opens with a Weyland-Yutani space probe investigating the wreckage of the USCSS Nostromo, collecting an organic object containing a Xenomorph.
Rain Carradine, an orphan, works with her adoptive brother Andy, a reprogrammed synthetic human, at the colony Jackson's Star. After her contract is forcibly extended by Weyland-Yutani, she agrees to join her ex-boyfriend Tyler to a derelict spacecraft to retrieve cryostasis chambers. These chambers will allow Rain and her friends—Tyler, his pregnant sister Kay, cousin Bjorn, and Bjorn's girlfriend Navarro—to escape to the planet Yvaga, a nine-year journey impossible without the process of hypersleep. Andy's ability to interface with the onboard computer system is crucial for the mission. Rain is hesitant to send Andy but is convinced by Tyler and Andy to allow him to assist. They fly the hauler Corbelan to the spacecraft, which is revealed to be a station divided into parts Romulus and Remus, a reference to the Roman legend of Romulus and Remus. While retrieving stasis chambers, Tyler, Bjorn, and Andy accidentally revive frozen facehuggers and trigger a lockdown. To override the lockdown, Rain installs a chip from a damaged android, Rook, into Andy, granting him access to the station while also updating his thought processing and general efficiency. Unbeknownst to the others, this also changes his "prime directive", making him loyal solely to Weyland-Yutani.
As the group flees the chamber, a facehugger latches onto Navarro. Rain reactivates Rook, a wrecked android who resembles Ash, who discloses that the station's crew was killed by the Xenomorph and its clones. While Tyler tries to remove the creature, Rook warns it may have implanted a "seed". Despite Andy's attempts to stop him, Bjorn flees with Navarro on the Corbelan. A chestburster emerges from Navarro, killing her. The Corbelan, with Kay and Bjorn aboard, crashes into the Romulus hangar, jeopardizing the station's orbit and leaving less than an hour before it collides with Jackson's planetary rings. Kay is knocked unconscious from the impact and the chestburster escapes into the ship. She regains consciousness and runs into Bjorn, who discovers and attacks the Xenomorph gestating into its adult form before dying from its acid blood.
Rain and Tyler navigate to the bay while avoiding the facehuggers. Kay escapes the Corbelan but is stalked by a Xenomorph trying to lure the others into a trap. Andy refuses to unlock the door so as not to put everyone at risk, and they watch helplessly as Kay is attacked and dragged away. Andy finds samples of a compound scientists had extracted from the Xenomorphs, which Rook calls the "Prometheus strain", intended to "perfect" humans. Rook insists the samples must be brought to the colony and prevents the Corbelan from leaving without them. Rain and Tyler rescue Kay from a cocoon, but Tyler is killed and Andy is incapacitated. Badly injured, Kay injects herself with the fluid during their escape. Rain returns to the Romulus, helps Andy by removing the control chip, thus returning his loyalty to Rain, and disables the ship's gravity in order to shoot the Xenomorphs while keeping their blood away from the hull. They make it back to the Corbelan just before the station crashes into the rings, destroying Rook.
As Rain and Andy prepare for their trip to Yvaga, Kay, affected by the fluid injection, gives birth to a rapidly growing human–Xenomorph hybrid with the face of an Engineer, named "The Offspring". The hybrid viciously kills Kay and injures Andy, but Rain manages to eject the creature into Jackson's rings. She places Andy in a chamber and records a log entry about their arrival at Yvaga before entering stasis herself.
Cast[]
- Cailee Spaeny as Rain Carradine
- David Jonsson as Andy
- Archie Renaux as Tyler
- Isabela Merced as Kay
- Spike Fearn as Bjorn
- Aileen Wu as Navarro
Production[]
The film title was announced on February 7, 2024, as Alien: Romulus.[1] It entered filming in February of 2023,[2] and officially wrapped in July of 2023 after approximately four months of filming.[3]
Music[]
The music was composed by Benjamin Wallfisch.
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