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Offspring trading cards, shared by Fede.

As I suspected on my first viewing, the Offspring has 6 digits.

@Loik Bihan, that is remarkably grotesque and bizarre - it's perfect! Haha, I especially like the Giger-aesthetics for the face and the semi-visible eye balls. Great addition, nice work!

Welcome to the forums as well!

I'm not sure if I like it but at least I tried 

Dark Nebula: That's a lot better

It looks interesting, I like to see new versions of the monster. Welcome aboard if this is your first time here. Stick around

The engineer-likeliness is from the human DNA

Some more, this one by Col Price.

https://x.com/coldesign_ltd/status/1830859826722656279

A very Neomorph-looking Offspring design.

A Xeno monster with long hair, LOL! I can't take it seriously.

Well thought out response. The_Foxcatcher! You raise a great point - the Engineer DNA being absent from the origin material. I hadn't considered this yet but now that you bring it up it does make the Offspring's Engineer like appearance all the more confusing.

I feel like the next film should revisit Prometheus and draw inspiration / direction from the concepts presented there. People can knock Ridley all they want (never understood why) but at least his concepts were coherent and flowed - open-ended sure, but not so convoluted they made no sense.

Ultramorph would've been sweet... that's one beast that continues to elude us. That and a film adaptation of a Praetorian.

The birth of an Engineer-Xenomorph Hybrid Baby was a flawed inclusion and felt like a desperate attempt to tie the film with Prometheus. Where the hell does an Engineer DNA come from?

The Black Goo does not contain Engineer DNA. It was originally manufactured by the Engineers on LV_223 as a bio-weapon, using the DNA of the Protomorph (the creature depicted on the mural). The Black Goo mutates infected hosts, imbuing them with the Protomorph's predatory attributes.

The Protomorph is the original creature with the same life cycle: Egg, Facehugger, Chestburster, Adult (as illustrated on the mural), and is the progenitor from which other creatures, like the Xenomorph, evolved. Every time a Facehugger impregnates a host, the resulting embryo adapts to the DNA of the host, carrying some of its characteristics—like the Runner in Alien 3 adapting to the DNA of a dog.

In Alien: Covenant, David used the same Black Goo to mutate cross-bred insect eggs, eventually creating the Xenomorph. The Black Goo also mutated fungi into spore-producing mushrooms, which impregnated hosts with Neomorph embryos.

And now, in Alien: Romulus, we have Rook deriving Black Goo from Facehugger blood, which then infects a pregnant woman, resulting in an Engineer Hybrid!   

It's simply laughable—if not downright ridiculous!

I see it as a lost opportunity. A version of the Ultramorph (a concept designed for an early draft of Prometheus) or the adult version of the Deacon could have been far more consistent and logical, while still being terrifying and unique.

Early Offspring Exploration by Santiago Vecino

https://www.instagram.com/p/C_ahFyQxpij/

I might give this a try, I haven't uploaded any of my drawings here in years.

Also, thumbs up to the art by Sam Haglund.

I kind of like the mesoskeleton idea but its needs more tweaking

Ah so eventually we evolve into xenomorphs, makes sense given the xenomorph's compatibility with humanity

Very interesting! Thanks for the breakdown Nebula! I'm glad the sequence at the end didn't reveal a Xenomorph mesoskeleton. Although the part about them being told they don't have permission to leave the planet would've been a nice addition, I assumed it was odd they could just take a ship off planet whenever they want but aren't allowed to go anywhere else unless the company approves it.

Oh yes

Please do well, come Japan, its your time to make your mark!

seriously it's so amazing to know that OffSpring is not CGI. I love this movie more and more

Never mind I figured it out.

I would make some tweaks though to coincide with the Alien RPG.

Protomorph to Praetomorph. (Since Protomorph is now assigned to the Deacon/Trilobite linage)

Mutant to Anathemia/Abomination

Engineer (Ancient) to Engineer (Space Jockey)

The Alien Romulus Pathogen to the Z-01 Pathogen

Is there away to make that picture bigger?

Yeah, I think I would of had nightmares for real. Practical Effects FTW

Can you imagine how creepy it would've been to be on set with that! So much better than CGI.

lol good one, but seriously I didn't know that was practical effects since I'm so used to CGI for almost everything now days

Smooth forever.

Nope, they hired an actual alien. They wanted to find a really tall human for the role, but Fede is such a perfectionist so he insisted on hiring an actual alien.

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Wait the Offspring is just a dude in a costume? I thought he was CGI monster!

As one reddit user posted:

"In space no one can hear the banjos"

Behind the scenes

https://x.com/fedalvar/status/1829607007751716969

I kinda agree with them tbh, it was the weakest part of the movie for me personally. I could have done without it.

So what you are saying that they are space hillbillies... ;P

Yea, he did confirm Bjorn was the father on Reddit. Here's a link to the comment: Yes he is. Good catch!

Side note, they're ALL cousins lol, even Bjorn's new lady, Navarro. Rain is the only one that's not related, so far as I know.

I'm sorry Thoughts_Dreams but from all the things Noah Hawley leaked about Alien Earth didn't fill me with confidence.

More than likely Ivaga is going to be an original planet. I mean it serves no purpose to the narrative to retcon an established part of ALIEN canon like that. LV-426/Acheron is an iconic planet in sci-fi much like Tatooine and Vulcan

I like it

To me it's better than both prequels

Xenotaris: Let's wait and see how it turns out

Yes but I inspired by screen showing star system, destination to Ivaga on The end od movie. Its similar to  Retikulum system. Mayby corporation tells rumors that it's planet very good to live.

I don't know how she'd fit back. An aged Ripley 8 on Earth? A de-aged Weaver playing the role of her daughter Amanda? I'm not sure.

Sigourney Weaver already did so much not only for the franchise but the film industry as the badass woman (sorry Sarah Connor, Ripley was the OG) and beyond with her different portrayals of Ellen through her long and epic journey. She can't be 1:1 matched but there are many ways to introduce new characters, preferably without  attempting to more or less copy the extreme survivalist concept of Ripley over and over (Shaw, Daniels, Rain) to the point where it feels like it's a mandatory rule when making a new Alien film.

Hopefully we'll get a sequel to Romulus that doesn't recycle the same ideas all over again, including a rifle-toting Rain in Ripley's shoes, figuratively and literally.

Maybe we'll see a different type of protagonist in the upcoming Alien Earth series. 

Yes I made a contradictory statement, but hear me out, sorry for tripple posting since I can't edit my posts.

yes the pirates wouldn't know what the Pathogen does but they would likely assume it is a bioweapon and definitely wouldn't "test" it. It would be more valuable if they don't use any of the vials and just sell the whole set (or what's remains of the set since Kay already took one)

If they find out it was originally from a Weyland-Yutani science lab, even more reason to sell it to the black market, the UPP or a rival corporation would pay a fortune to get a hold of those vials.