How Alien Romulus Fixes The Most Controversial Xenomorph In The Franchise

Ripley from Alien Resurrection with Cailee Spaeny's Rain from Romulus with the Newborn in the background.

Summary The ending of Alien: Romulus fixes one of the franchise's biggest monster blunders almost three decades later. The Alien movie franchise wasn't in great shape following the critical and commercial underperformance of Ridley Scott's Covenant. Romulus was intended to wipe the slate clean, offering new heroes and creatures while getting back to the horror roots of the saga.

The issue with Alien Resurrection's Newborn design is that is utterly unfrightening and even borderline comical. Related Why Alien Resurrection's Newborn Alien Design Was So Disappointing Alien Resurrection's disappointing Newborn alien design is a major part of why it was a critical and commercial failure. Here's what went wrong.

It was only when Alien Resurrection was in post-production that he had a change of heart, with Gillis paraphrasing the director stating "Even for a Frenchman, it was too much!" That's why the Newborn is largely filmed in close-up or medium shots since every wide angle had to digitally erase below the Xeno's waist. Since Resurrection's creature was intended to be half-human, it's easy to see why Jeunet felt this was an interesting concept.

It was very much intended to have the Giger Xenomorph design too, just with more of an insect-inspired look. Instead of using its inner jaw to punch holes in its prey like the other creatures do, this jaw was used to drain its victims of blood. In short, Whedon pictured a terrifying, showstopping new monster to close Alien Resurrection on, with a fight to rival that of Ripley vs the Alien Queen.

Why Alien: Romulus' Offspring Xenomorph Is Genuinely Unsettling Romulus pulls the same fourth act trick the original movie did Close The original film essentially has a fourth act, thanks to Ripley's showdown with the title beast inside the escape shuttle. A regular film would have ended with Ripley blowing up the creature on the ship and escaping, but in the final battle with the Xenomorph, she has one last fight to conquer.

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