Alien: Romulus has a plot point borrowed from an earlier movie and we’re here to talk all about it, with a spoiler warning.
“Alien: Romulus” is here, and the movie – about a group of young people (Cailee Spaeny, David Jonsson, Archie Renaux, Isabela Merced, Spike Fearn and Aileen Wu) who travel to a derelict space station, in order to fuel their journey away from their backwater mining planet – definitely has some lingering mysteries. This is especially true if you don’t have a PhD in “Alien” studies. There’s a particularly large question mark that hangs over a late-movie plot point.
But to get into this particular element, we will have to issue a major spoiler warning.
Watch the movie and come on back, this article will still be here.
Towards the end of the movie, when our heroes are almost off the hideous space station, known as Renaissance and broken into two sections (Remus and Romulus), they are given a new directive from Rook (played by Daniel Betts but looking and sounding like Ian Holm’s Ash from the original “Alien”). Rook says that they need to transport a vile of blackish goo off of the space station. It’s hugely important to the Weyland-Yutani corporation.
