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‘Alien: Romulus’ Director on the Ending’s Insane New Monster and Resurrecting [SPOILER] From ‘Alien’: His Family ‘Was on Board With This Idea’
‘Alien: Romulus’ director Fede Álvarez explains why he resurrected that ‘Alien’ character and mixing sequel mythologies for the movie's new monster.
Even so, he built a pivotal part of the “Romulus” story around a character who died in the original movie: Ash, the synthetic human played by the late Ian Holm with chilling obedience to the franchise’s capitalistic overlords, the Weyland-Yutani Corporation. “Then the first thing I did was personally call his widow, family and kids to make sure everybody was on board with this idea.” Given that the filmmaker had lost his own father in 2021, the same year that Holm died, he recognized that they might not want to see him appear on screen. Though he says he enjoyed giving Holm’s likeness one more opportunity to appear on screen (via animatronics), Álvarez stresses that the logistics of accomplishing those sequences prohibit similar ideas from happening with any frequency.
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