As a film set between the events of Alien and Aliens, Alien: Romulus features callbacks to the past and future events in the franchise. To pull off one of those callbacks, director Fede Alvarez had to use a mixture of A.I., animatronics, and CGI to digitally resurrect an actor from the past in a new role. Now, Alvarez is defending his choice to do so.
Warning: the following contains spoilers for Alien: Romulus. If you haven’t seen the movie or don’t want to know what happens, stop reading now.
Relatively early in the film, Romulus introduces a new synthetic android, Rook, who has the face and voice of the late Alien actor Ian Holm, who passed away in 2020. In the first film, Holm portrayed a different synthetic named Ash. While speaking with the Los Angeles …
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