Alien: Romulus Pitch Meeting

Step inside the Pitch Meeting that led to Alien: Romulus!

The Alien franchise started 45 years ago, which is a pretty big number. Multiple movies in, we now have the latest offering - Romulus. Sometimes these movies end with an “us” sound, you see.

Alien Romulus definitely raises some questions. Like why is so easy to get off that planet? Why isn’t anyone else checking out this ship? Is that pregnant lady gonna be okay?

To answer all these questions, check out the pitch meeting that led to Alien: Romulus.

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[mantinete]

The way Ryan says "That's okay" and then does the Kubrick stare gives me chills. Peak cinema

[MaiAolei]

2:45 Producer dropping his friendly face is terrifying.

[russellmc]

The "believe it or not" Ripley's line got me out of nowhere

[JaqenHghar.]

Bro that guy that played the android killed it. I was very impressed. Making a stutter not accidentally comedic is hard but turns out he's just a faulty robot and he made that work too. Then he switched into a cold calculated wordsmith with all the swag and confidence imaginable. Seriously that was an amazing performance. I hope to see this dude a lot in the future

[duralumin]

I see a lot of people in the comments picked up the "Ripley's Believe It Or Not" reference (awesome); but no one so far seems to have noticed the Hugging Face reference:

For those that aren't aware, "Hugging Face" is the main repository for AI language models. Producer Guy tells Writer Guy he intends to replace him with AI, and a bout a minute and a half later tells him "Hugging Faces is tight!". It's possible this was just a funny coincidence, but given the subtlety of Ryan's humor, I think he may have just slipped this one under the radar on purpose.

[Guyonnn]

That Ripleys believe it or not line was gold.

[spennywenny]

I love the idea that screenwriter guy has a secret grudge against producer guy since the secret invasion pitch meeting

[thatrandomvsdebator]

2:48 "We can't let something as trivial as death stop us. We can't let anything stop us."

That line has straight up supervillain vibes and I fucking love it

[sammyboy]

Random thought: why didn't they get Martin Freeman or Elijah Wood to play Rook? Freeman played young Holmes in The Hobbit, and Wood played his character's nephew in LotR. Could have done just some minor cosmetics and still showed it was an homage to Holmes from the first Alien.

Also, I know she has a lot of range, but I was so surprised to see Isabela Mercad in such a dark, serious role when I know her as the live-action Dora. She's really talented, glad she's getting all these big movie roles.

[greg_nicholls]

5:08 "I'll bring it back if I want to" - if ever there was a line that perfectly sums up modern Hollywood

[MyBiPolarBearMax]

0:53 this is so unrealistic.

Studios absolutely do not care about seeming dystopian if it makes them money.

[JamestheXennial]

I'll never tire of the pun phrases. "It's an iconic line of Ripley's, believe it or not!"

[FirstoftheAbyss]

You know, the way Ryan said "that's and gave a kubrick stare, I bet that was exactly what Disney said and did when they got the message that Carrie Fisher died a few years back. That was when the mouse decided that even death was no longer strong enough to stop one of their contracts. And as always the others followed the example of the one who is currently in front of the mob.

[stormtempterf]

It's a pet peeve of mine that directors play so fast and lose and fast with the xenomorph gestation cycles. It's fast but it's not blink and you'll miss it. There'd be no point in hugging people if the embryo takes like 2 minutes to gestate, it could do that in the hugger. Give it like a day at each life stage, and everyone can be happy. You want it to go quick in your movie, add implied time jumps that are natural.

[cameronroubiqueauthor]

"We can't let something as trivial as death stop us. We can't let anything stop us." Damn! Now that's some amazing supervillain dialogue.

[SpideySensei]

"Can we at least make sure it looks really good?" "NO DEAL, NO DEAL!" OMG, this killed me because that uncanny valley Ian Holm looked terrible on film.

[-dtuyhnjhggvjjjn]

2:15 It would've been cool for the company to send a ship and have the crew be wiped out as the protagonists watch helplessly. Patch up some plot holes but also increase the stakes of how dangerous the Xenomorphs are

[GendefectX]

"Our hands are tied by a trope we ourself created and constantly reinforce" - what a sentence!

[kentonbaird]

"Kinda thought that thing was vaporized by explosions"
"Yeaah, turns out it wasn't!"

That seems to happen a lot, lately.

[wither_tm]

"I don't like how time works" should be a new catchphrase