Alien: Romulus director confirms Major Ellen Ripley Easter Egg and everything changes

You may not have identified her, but Ellen Ripley was technically In Alien: Romulus. Director Faith álvarez He confirmed the surprising Easter egg during a recent screening and panel hosted by Collider, revealing a hidden connection that re -elaborates Ripley’s time sequence in a new way. According to Álvarez and the VFX team of the film, this turning point is officially Canon.

Alien: Romulus It is set between Alien AND AliensDuring a period in which Ripley presumably drifting in the deep space aboard the narcissus, frozen cryogenically.

For 57 years, he was lost, at least, here’s how Aliens presents it. But álvarez found it difficult to believe, above all given what Romulus reveals Weyland-Yutani’s skills.

“My logic was at a certain point if Weyland-Yutani could find the Xenomorph that floated around the debris of the Nostromo, to find the narcissus, the shuttle in which Ripley fled, is the simplest part,” explained álvarez.

“It’s a lifeboat; It has a lighthouse. Yes, you will find it, right? It will be a place to understand the search for what is happening. You should go get it. So I’m sure they did it, right?

“So I was like,” at some point, the narcissus must be inside the Renaissance station somewhere. “Not only that, I wanted to give an explanation of why Ripley was lost 40 years between [Alien and Aliens].

“He had to go to Earth and be in stasis for decades until he was collected AliensSo I was like “why did it happen?” So I thought: “Because they took it.”

According to Álvarez, Weyland-Yutani did not simply let Rippley floated in the void for decades, they put it on board the Renaissance station all the time. The implication is that Ripley may have been briefly awake, aware or even involved in events that we have never seen before being put back on the ice.

The evidence is there Romulus . Alvarez continued: “It’s a huge station, right? You can see, as probably, 3% of the corridors that that station has. When you see them, think about the scale.

“So there is a lot of space for Ripley to do his things, and then when he realized that everything would explode, he had to return to the narcissus and let the fucking out.”

The narcissus is even visible in Romulushidden against the background of two separate blows. Álvarez revealed:

“So, if you look, if you look closely, you will see the narcissus twice in the film in the background in a couple of sections where they walk it and you can see it right on the wall.

“Therefore, of course, it cannot die, so in the great explosion in the end when the station is crashing on the rings, you have to show the starting narcissus. I asked these guys: “Can you give me a narcissus there?” And they were like “we are on it!” And they were all enthusiastic. “

If Ripley was technically on the Renaissance station, because it is never mentioned Aliens? Why don’t you remember?

Regardless of this, this also subtly reposition the story of Ripley, creating an interesting chapter hidden on his journey.

Alien: Romulus It is streaming now on Hulu.