Alien: Romulus scares sci-fi fans with various shocking scenes. The producers also had serious reservations about one of them. Director Fede Alvarez had to fight for the idea. Spoiler alert:
The Alien series is a revolution in disgust. Where previously papier-mâché lizards or giant robots often populated sci-fi films, suddenly a downright disgusting organic monster was slaughtering its way through spaceships and spreading its slime all over space. Alien: Romulus certainly doesn’t take any steps backwards in this respect, as one scene alone proves. Spoiler alert:
Disgusting sci-fi scene in Alien: Romulus was too much for the studio at first
In the movie’s finale, the infected Kay (Isabela Merced) gives birth to a terrifying hybrid of alien, human and a so-called constructor, whose people were seen in Prometheus and its sequel Alien: Covenant.
The creature, which now also goes by the name “The Offspring”, is a figure of horror: barely three meters tall, scrawny, pale and slimy, it combines characteristics of all three original species. The dead black eyes of the constructors, the slender limbs of the humans, but also the physiognomy of the aliens: huge organs grow out of its back like fleshy chimneys.
Watch the trailer for Alien: Romulus here:
No wonder, perhaps, that the producers initially found the monster’s appearance exaggerated. Director Fede Álvarez revealed to The Hollywood Reporter :
They initially rejected it, but not because they didn’t like it. They just said, “Is it maybe too much? Does it really have to be?” And I was like, “Now that we’re not supposed to do it, I know I have to do it.”
The film’s studio is the Disney company 20th Century Fox. The concerns are understandable: When Alvarez had the birth of the new alien creature filmed, much of the cast had to look away in disgust. The director will have liked it
