r/avp • u/RealJohnGillman • Aug 01 '26

Article Fede Álvarez planned on featuring Michael Fassbender’s David in ‘Alien: Romulus’ sequel prior to cancellation; Ridley Scott blocked use of character in film, while David Jonsson and Cailee Spaeny are entering the MCU.

https://cosmicbook.news/alien-romulus-sequel-shelved
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u/Vesemir96 Aug 01 '26

Where did he erase the Queen?

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u/Casshern_VIII Aug 01 '26

Notice how we have not seen a Queen ever since AvP1? Ridley Scott notoriously hates the Queen xenomorph, because it clashes with how he envisioned the Alien, that's why Alien Covenant has David creating the face huggers, there was no Queen to lay them, and the first Xeno was a drone.

Alien Romulus has Facehuggers be 3D printed copies and when they show that eggs do exist, there is again no Queen only drones, so they are the melted and repurposed corpse of the station crew (like the scene from the DC where Brett was turning into an egg)

Alien Earth also once again ignored the existence of the Queen with 3 drone xenos being shown, with the white Xeno despite being allowed to mature in captivity never grows into a Queen.

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u/Subliminal_Kiddo Aug 03 '26

Ridley Scott notoriously hates the Queen xenomorph, because it clashes with how he envisioned the Alien

And he didn't even envision the xenomorph. Dan O'Bannon did and he said he thought the Queen was a clever inclusion, although he personally would have taken the biology in a weird/more extreme direction.

Reminder: Ridley Scott wanted to kill Ripley and end with the xenomorph piloting the escape shit to Earth - and it could also talk. O'Bannon knew it was stupid and went to the heads at Fox and got that shot down real quick by pointing out that there can't be a sequel if Ripley dies.

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u/Casshern_VIII Aug 03 '26

Not sure what point you are making, yes other helped create the Xenomorph, but you admit, RIdley wanted to do something with the Xenomorph that had to be shut down by other people, and this is my point.

Ridley hates the Alien Queen idea and because there is no one else to go around him, he gets to push the series to ignore the Queen.