Rain coming face to face with a Xenomorph
Highlights If you've seen the latest Alien interquel, Alien: Romulus, then you likely caught some of the biggest connections to the larger franchise. Set in between the original Alien and its direct sequel Aliens, this Fede Álvarez-directed space horror wastes no time throwing the next band of explorers into the fire, setting them up for the familiar xenomorph terrors that await them.
Evidently, this substance — now called Compound Z-01 — is meant to help evolve humanity beyond its mortal constraints. The android also notes that Weyland-Yutani founder Peter Weyland died in search of this compound, something longtime Alien fans remember from Scott's prequel when the living Engineer kills the greedy billionaire. "The black goo is the root of the whole thing that was introduced in Prometheus," Álvarez explained to Variety after Romulus was released.
Director Fede Álvarez Has a Specific Reason for Connecting These Two 'Alien' Features Close "I was hoping that people picked up the whole Engineer part of it," the director also noted, wanting his standalone Alien picture to connect back to Scott's prequels, including 2017's Alien: Covenant, which further examined the creation of what we know today as the xenomorph.
Of course, the hybrid's appearance is also a direct reference to Prometheus, looking like a weird marriage of the Engineers, a xenomorph, and a human. It's pretty terrible that Kay had to give birth to that thing, but given that she injected herself with the Z-01 compound, not knowing the full extent of its origins, we can't say we're surprised. Still, this crazy twist was only made possible by this substance first established in Prometheus.
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