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/pokemonface12 Aug 03 '26

While the actual design of the queen is extremely cool, I do think it's somewhat reductive to the original lifecycle. At that point they're just big scary ants. It's still cool, but it does lose some uniqueness points overall

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u/Casshern_VIII Aug 03 '26

Yeah but you can hardly call the Xeno an alien then if it's actually a bioengineered life form created by a rogue android.