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Alien: 21st and 22nd centuries · 2142, between Alien and Aliens

Alien: Romulus

Young colonists raid an abandoned station

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Do you need to watch it?

Yes. It's in the Main story, the list of only what moves the plot forward to the end of the saga.

Where it falls in the order

  • Main story4 of 6
  • Chronological11 of 15
  • Everything11 of 17

Post-credits scenes

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Spoilers for this title

Quick recap

In 2142, a Weyland-Yutani probe recovers something from the Nostromo wreckage. On the mining colony of Jackson's Star, orphan Rain has her work contract extended against her will. She joins her ex Tyler, his pregnant sister Kay, Bjorn, Navarro and Andy, an android her father reprogrammed to be her brother, to loot cryopods from an abandoned station, the Renaissance. There they release facehuggers. Andy gets a chip from the station's android, Rook, and starts obeying the company. Rook reveals the station was studying the Nostromo's Xenomorph and made a serum, Z-01. Navarro, Bjorn and Tyler die. Kay injects the serum and gives birth to a monstrous hybrid, which Rain ejects into the planet's rings. Rain and Andy go into hypersleep.

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3 easter eggs

Hidden details

  1. CameoIan Holm's face

    The android Rook has the likeness of Ian Holm, Ash in Alien, who died in 2020. His estate approved it, and the animatronic head started from a scan made on The Lord of the Rings.

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  2. ReferenceAlien: Isolation phones

    The station's wall phones are the save points from the game Alien: Isolation (2014). Fede Álvarez uses them to hint that danger is close.

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  3. ReferenceNostromo wreckage in the opening

    The first scene shows a Weyland-Yutani probe recovering a cocoon from the wreckage of the Nostromo, the ship from Alien.

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