Director confirms what the title Romulus means in Alien: Romulus

Fede Alvarez touched on the significance of the name Romulus in the title for Alien: Romulus which I just featured in a recent news article:

The names Remus and Romulus actually stem from ancient Roman mythology - they were the mythological creators of Rome - the largest empire the world had ever seen. As the story goes, Remus and Romulus were twin boys who feed from a she-wolf type of creature to gain its powers. The story symbolizes harvesting resources from a dangerous beast to become more powerful - very much inline with the Prometheus title Ridley chose for his Alien prequel - having similar symbolism about stealing the power from the Gods to elevate Mankind to God-like status.

This coincides with the leaks we shared earlier this month - whereby we learned Weyland-Yutani are attempting to harvest and manipulate the DNA of the Xenomorph in order to gain its power and advance Humanity genetically.

I can NOT wait for this movie... It sounds more and more like the perfect blending of Alien and Prometheus concepts.