Was Ellen Ripley on the Romulus station as well during the film? Alvarez likes to think so.
Chris
AdminEngineerMar-02-2025 4:11 PMFede Alvarez apparently confirmed that Ellen Ripley was on the Romulus station the whole time during the events of the film... which is why we see the Narcissus ejecting from the station in the film. Here's what Alvarez explained:
My logic was at some point if Weyland-Yutani could find the Xenomorph floating around the debris of the Nostromo, to find the Narcissus, the shuttle that Ripley escaped in, is the easiest part. It’s a lifeboat; it has a beacon. Yeah, you’ll find her, right? It will be a place to figure out the research of what’s going on. You should go get her. So I’m sure they did, right? So I was like, ‘At some point, the Narcissus has to be inside the Renaissance station somewhere.’ Not only that, I wanted to give an explanation of why Ripley got lost 40 years between [Alien and Aliens]. She was supposed to go to Earth and be in stasis for decades until she gets picked up in Aliens, so I was like, ‘Why did that happen?’ So I thought, ‘Because they picked her up.
Personally, I find this one hard to get behind since how or why Ridley would end up on the Romulus station only to get back into the Narcissus with Jonesy, to be discovered later on as if nothing happened leaves too many open ends - not to mention why would she not recall her events on the station with recounting her Nostromo mission to the company in Aliens?
I think this one is a stretch. The Easter egg of having the Narcissus float by in the background is fine, but I wouldn't try to explain or convince us that Ripley docked to the Romulus station, torched the Big Chap and then left back in cryo to float through space aimlessly. Just doesn't compute for me.
What do you guys think?
NCC 1701
Veteran MemberMemberOvomorphMar-05-2025 8:16 PMjust makes me want to watch it again , and see with my own eyes
Jonesy
MemberFacehuggerMar-08-2025 7:00 AMI think Ripley never really woke up during the whole Alien to Romulus timeline. She was never the Company's priority. The company probably pick up Narcissus first and dock it in Romulus Station, hoping to find some clues about the whole incident, but then they found Big Chap so they just left Ripley there continue sleeping lol.
Lamaruke
MemberOvomorphMar-10-2025 12:21 PMI agree that it just seems to complicate everything and Alvarez is simply musing. Personally, I find the need to explain EVERYTHING a wrong headed creative effort best left alone. I will say however, that Jonesy’ explanation is the only way that this would work for me if it ever became cannon. I must say that I find the idea of a sequel to Alien: Romulus rather exiting and would certainly welcome it. Alien is charting new territory and everyone involved is dedicated to delivering the best and most imaginative stories. -Well thought out stories that don’t seem to be a simple cash grab.
Every other major science fiction franchise has grown rather long in the tooth and seem to lack the fire of a creative spark. (I would single out the Planet of the Apes franchise for rebooting and rising like a Phoenix to thrill us with an amazing example of reworking the very concept of the franchise and giving us something new and brilliant)
NCC 1701
Veteran MemberMemberOvomorphMar-11-2025 11:08 AMcould be to , I'm sure they build more than one Narcissus "class" of escape ships
Xenotaris
MemberPraetorianMar-24-2025 3:26 AM"I'm sure they build more than one Narcissus "class" of escape ships"
This is what I was about to say. The Narcissus-class shuttles seem to be a very reliable starcraft so it would make sense that they continued to use its design for future shuttlecrafts. I mean in real life we still have in service Vietnam Era bombers.
