SPOILER ALERT: This story discusses major plot points, including the ending of “Alien Romulus,” in theaters now.
What Alien: Romulus' (spoiler) actually looks like
Fede Álvarez may have delivered one of the wildest endings of the year with “Alien: Romulus” — thanks in large part to the terrifying new monster nicknamed “The Offspring.”
Early in the film, Kay (Isabela Merced) reveals to Rain (Cailee Spaeny) that she's pregnant. As the Xenomorphs unleash terror on Rain and the crew, Kay is captured by one of their own. Rain and Andy (David Jonsson) find her in a cocoon and free her. As the trio fight to escape the alien-infested space station (which is on a crash course with a nearby planet), Kay injects herself with the Weyland-Yutani "Compound Z-01" – made from matter extracted from the Xenomorphs and designed to allow humanity to grow. But when Rain puts Kay in a cyro-chamber so they can safely retrieve her, something goes horribly wrong and Kay goes into labor – to something rather horrible, a baby who quickly evolves into a human-xenomorph hybrid.
"The way it's described is you're trying to visualize it in your head, and you don't know how the director is going to create this character," says visual effects supervisor Daniel Macarin. "Is it going to look like a Xenomorph? Is it going to be something really unique? Is it going to be something we've never seen before?"
