SPOILER ALERT: This article discusses plot points, including the ending, of “Alien: Romulus,” now in theaters.
The ending of ALIEN ROMULUS explained and the connections between Prometheus and aliens!
When Fede Álvarez decided to make “Alien: Romulus,” he knew from the beginning that he wanted to honor not just “Alien” and “Aliens,” the most critically acclaimed and popular films in the series, but the entire mythology of it. “I thought, ‘We have to embrace them all,’” he tells Variety.
Still, he built a crucial part of the “Romulus” story around a character who died in the original film: Ash, the synthetic human played by the late Ian Holm with chilling obedience to the franchise’s capitalist overlords, the Weyland-Yutani Corporation. After “Alien 3” and “Alien vs. Predator” expanded the life cycle of “Alien’s” android Bishop (Lance Henriksen), and Michael Fassbender’s David helmed both prequels, Álvarez says Holm’s role (or at least his face) was due for a resurrection.
"It was a matter of fairness in a way," he says. "I thought it was so unfair that Lance Henriksen and Michael Fassbender were on a lot. And I thought it was crazy that Ian Holm never came back."
