Alien: Romulus, Fede Alvarez’s latest film, had its worldwide premiere on August 16, 2024. The film is produced by 20th Century Studios. Alien: Romulus is an interquel to Alien (1979) and Aliens (1986). Evil Dead (2013) and Don’t Breathe (2016) are cult horror films by Alvarez.
The film features a talented cast, including Cailee Spaeny, Archie Renaux, David Jonsson, Isabela Merced, Aileen Wu, and Spike Fearn. The story follows a group of colonists wandering around a space station and encountering a Xenomorph. Benjamin Wallfisch composed the original music and soundtrack for Alien: Romulus. In addition, the veteran composer has composed music for films such as Flash and Shazam! and Blade Runner.
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The complete soundtrack of Alien: Romulus
A similar nod to earlier installments in the series can be found in the score for Alien: Romulus, composed by Benjamin Wallfisch. This soundtrack references Jerry Goldsmith’s original music for Alien and James Horner’s music for the first sequel, Aliens, as well as Marc Streitenfeld’s music for Prometheus. Here is a list of all the songs composed by Benjamin Wallfisch for the film.
- The Chrysalis
- This is our sun
- Wake up
- Entering Nostromo
- Search
- There is something in the water
- XX121
- It is faulty
- Run
- Prometheus Fire
- Guns V Acid Blood
- The beehive
- Andy
- Gravity flushing
- Attack on the elevator shaft
- Get away from her
- The offspring
- Collision warning
- Raine
- Spring
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What is the story of this new Alien movie?
The film revolves around a group of space explorers investigating the wreckage of the USCSS Nostromo. During their investigation, they find an organic object containing Xenomorph. Another scene features Rain Carradine, an orphan living in an isolated colony of Jackson’s Star. The reprogrammed synthetic human she works with is her adopted brother Andy.
Rain’s contract at the colony is extended and she is given the chance to escape with her ex-boyfriend Tyler and his group. The group includes Tyler’s pregnant sister Kay, his cousin Bjorn, and Bjorn’s girlfriend Navarro. To reach the planet Yvaga, the group plans to retrieve cryonic stasis chambers from an abandoned spaceship. Due to Andy’s unique ability to interact with complex systems, he is vital to the success of the mission.
At first, Rain is hesitant to include Andy in the mission, but Andy and Tyler convince her to do so. The group boards the transport Corbelan and heads to the spaceship. Upon arrival, they find that the station has been split into two parts, Romulus and Remus. Tyler, Bjorn, and Andy accidentally awaken sleeping facehuggers while collecting stasis chambers, triggering a nationwide lockdown. Despite Andy’s abilities, Rains compromises his loyalty by putting Weyland-Yutani’s interests first by implanting a chip from a damaged android named Rook.
Navarro is tied to a facehugger while escaping, and despite all attempts to save them, a chestburster appears and kills them. While attempting to escape, the group crashes the ship. A collision is less than an hour away, endangering the station’s orbit. While navigating the station, Kay, one of the survivors, is captured by a Xenomorph. Meanwhile, Andy discovers a Prometheus strain that can perfect humans.
The two attempt to save Kay, but Tyler is killed in the process and Andy is incapacitated. The strain causes Key to become injured during the escape and inject himself with it. After defeating the Xenomorphs, Rain disables the station’s gravity and escapes with Andy. Kay, now transformed by the strain, gives birth to a human-Xenomorph hybrid, which Rain hurls into space. Before entering herself, Rain puts Andy in stasis and records a final log of their journey.
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