peter1221 — 9 months ago(June 27, 2025 11:43 AM)

Spoilers below.
https://www.slashfilm.com/1656541/alien-romulus-offspring-early-design-disgusting/
"Alien: Romulus" most came alive for me with its final set-piece. Rain (Cailee Spaeny), Andy (David Jonsson), and Kay (Isabela Merced) seemingly escape and are ready to make their cryo-sleep voyage. But earlier, the pregnant Kay injected herself with some black goo to heal an injury. In a revolting new spin on trademark "childbirth as horror" themes of "Alien," the fetus in Kay mutates and, once birthed, rapidly matures into an eight-foot-tall xenomorph with a human-ish face.
While the xenomorphs of "Alien: Romulus" reuse a tried and true design (you don't mess with a "perfect organism"), the Offspring needed some work. Storyboard artist Santiago Vecino shared an unused Offspring design on his Instagram: