RW613 - Alien vs Predator Rewatch - Alien: Romulus

 

In this episode of The Alien vs Predator Rewatch, Cory and Eoghan really need to talk to their union as they discuss Alien: Romulus.

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The film was originally scheduled to be released on Hulu, but it switched to a theatrical release in June 2023.

After months of speculation about the meaning of the subtitle 'Romulus', writer/director Fede Alvarez explained that it refers to the Romulus space station where part of the action in the film takes place. He also implied that there is a sister station called 'Remus', so both structures are named after the twins Romulus and Remus, the mythological founders of the city of Rome and the Roman kingdom. In the final film, Romulus and Remus are revealed to be the two halves of the same space station, with most of the action taking place in the Romulus side. This continues the tradition of naming entities after characters or places from classic mythology, such as: the ship Prometheus from Prometheus (2012) (named after a Greek Titan); the ship Anesidora and the APOLLO computer from Alien: Isolation (2014) (named after a Roman goddess and god respectively); the planetoid Acheron from Aliens (1986) (named after a river in the Greek underworld); and the USS Auriga from Alien: Resurrection (1997) (named after a Greek hero).

The film's practical animatronic creature effects were created in collaboration between special effect companies Legacy Effects and Studio Gillis, both selected due to their staff's prior history with the Alien series. Legacy Effects is the successor to Stan Winston Studios, who worked on Aliens (1986), while Studio Gillis is the successor to Amalgamated Dynamics, who worked on Alien³ (1992), Alien: Resurrection (1997), and the two Alien vs Predator films.

The film's production design draws not only on the previous films in the series, but also the Alien: Isolation (2014) video game, including the "Emergency" communication stations which served as save points in the game.

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt18412256/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_1_tt_7_nm_0_in_0_q_Alien%2520rom

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien:_Romulus