ALIEN: ROMULUS Concept Art Reveals Another Alternate Take On The "Offspring"

ALIEN: ROMULUS Concept Art Reveals Another Alternate Take On The "Offspring"

We have some more unused concept art from Alien: Romulus here, and it seems the divisive Offspring was originally going to be even more bizarre-looking...

By MarkCassidy - Sep 16, 2024 02:09 PM EST
Filed Under: Movies

Alien: Romulus contains quite a few call-backs to Ridley Scott's original masterpiece and James Cameron's sequel, but it also reintroduces a concept from one of the less popular movies in the franchise, Alien: Resurrection.

Towards the end of the film, a pregnant and dying Kay injects herself with the Prometheus 5 formula to keep herself alive. Though she does survive (for a while), this ultimately results in her giving birth to a human/alien hybrid.

Named "The Offspring" in the credits, this rather terrifying creature does look a lot better than the albino monstrosity from Resurrection, but introducing another hybrid was a choice that not everyone was fully on board with... including the studio!

Now, concept artist Dane Hallett has unveiled another alternate design for the Offspring, and this multi-limbed monstrosity is a far cry from the hybrid that appeared in the movie - there's even a version with wings!

"At one point, the material Kay uses on herself has such a dramatic genetic effect on her unborn child that it grew into this monstrosity," Hallett explains. "It made it all the way to previs when it finally changed into something else (I'll eventually share) before reverting back to just being the offspring you saw in the final cut This was nerve-racking... Was I going to be responsible for an unloved mutation in the Alien Universe?

I tried desperately to give this thing purpose, presence and make it an ode to all that had come before it. In the end, I’m grateful we got what we got in the final cut, but here’s what could have been."

"Not a perfect organism, but despite an overreliance on retreading over old ground, Alien: Romulus does mark a thrilling return to form, and is surely destined to be ranked as the third-best Alien movie," we said in our review of Alien: Romulus.

"The sci-fi/horror-thriller takes the phenomenally successful Alien franchise back to its roots: While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe."

The film stars Cailee Spaeny (Priscilla), David Jonsson (Agatha Christie’s Murder is Easy), Archie Renaux (Shadow and Bone), Isabela Merced (The Last of Us), Spike Fearn (Aftersun), and Aileen Wu. Fede Alvarez (Evil Dead, Don’t Breathe) directs from a screenplay he wrote with frequent collaborator Rodo Sayagues (Don’t Breathe 2) based on characters created by Dan O’Bannon and Ronald Shusett.

Alien: Romulus is produced by Ridley Scott (Napoleon), who directed the original Alien and produced and directed the series’ entries Prometheus and Alien: Covenant, Michael Pruss (Boston Strangler), and Walter Hill (Alien), with Fede Alvarez, Elizabeth Cantillon (Charlie’s Angels), Brent O’Connor (Bullet Train), and Tom Moran (Unstoppable) serving as executive producers.

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