ALIEN: ROMULUS Concept Art Reveals That The Hybrid "Offspring" Almost Had Wings

ALIEN: ROMULUS Concept Art Reveals That The Hybrid "Offspring" Almost Had Wings

We have some more early concept art from Alien: Romulus here, and if you thought the movie's Offspring was a terrifying-looking creation, check out this early design...

By MarkCassidy - Sep 16, 2024 04:09 PM EST
Filed Under: Alien
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Fede Alvarez's Alien: Romulus contains quite a few call-backs to Ridley Scott's original masterpiece and James Cameron's sequel, but - somewhat controversially - it also reintroduces a concept from one of the less popular movies in the franchise, Alien: Resurrection.

Towards the end of the film, a pregnant and dying Kay (Isabela Merced) injects herself with the Rook android's Prometheus 5 formula to keep herself alive. Though she does survive (for a while), this ultimately results in her giving birth to a monstrous human/alien hybrid that kills its own mother almost immediately.

Named "The Offspring" in the credits, this rather terrifying creature does look a lot better than the albino monstrosity from Resurrection, but introducing another hybrid did result in some backlash, and for a lot of fans, the decision tarnished the movie’s final act.

Now, concept artist Dane Hallett has unveiled another alternate design for the Offspring, and this multi-limbed monstrosity is a far cry from the hybrid that appeared in the movie - there's even a version with wings!

"At one point, the material Kay uses on herself has such a dramatic genetic effect on her unborn child that it grew into this monstrosity," Hallett explains. "It made it all the way to previs when it finally changed into something else (I'll eventually share) before reverting back to just being the offspring you saw in the final cut This was nerve-racking... Was I going to be responsible for an unloved mutation in the Alien Universe?

I tried desperately to give this thing purpose, presence and make it an ode to all that had come before it. In the end, I’m grateful we got what we got in the final cut, but here’s what could have been."

"Not a perfect organism, but despite an overreliance on retreading over old ground, Alien: Romulus does mark a thrilling return to form, and is surely destined to be ranked as the third-best Alien movie," we said in our review of Alien: Romulus.

"The sci-fi/horror-thriller takes the phenomenally successful Alien franchise back to its roots: While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe."

The film stars Cailee Spaeny (Priscilla), David Jonsson (Agatha Christie’s Murder is Easy), Archie Renaux (Shadow and Bone), Isabela Merced (The Last of Us), Spike Fearn (Aftersun), and Aileen Wu. Fede Alvarez (Evil Dead, Don’t Breathe) directs from a screenplay he wrote with frequent collaborator Rodo Sayagues (Don’t Breathe 2) based on characters created by Dan O’Bannon and Ronald Shusett.

Alien: Romulus is produced by Ridley Scott (Napoleon), who directed the original Alien and produced and directed the series’ entries Prometheus and Alien: Covenant, Michael Pruss (Boston Strangler), and Walter Hill (Alien), with Fede Alvarez, Elizabeth Cantillon (Charlie’s Angels), Brent O’Connor (Bullet Train), and Tom Moran (Unstoppable) serving as executive producers.

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SonOfAGif
SonOfAGif - 9/16/2024, 4:37 PM
As cool as some of those concepts look, The final product worked best.
The1st
The1st - 9/16/2024, 4:38 PM
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Glad no one was dumb enough to greenlight it...this time.
cubrn
cubrn - 9/16/2024, 4:41 PM
The CGI in the film was laughably bad.
SuperiorHeckler
SuperiorHeckler - 9/16/2024, 5:40 PM
@cubrn - Keep in mind; this was originally intended as a made-for-streaming movie. And it had its budget-restraints because of that. Anyone correct me if I'm wrong but, it was pretty late in the game that this was re-positioned for a theatrical release instead. 🤨
GeneralZod
GeneralZod - 9/16/2024, 6:09 PM
@cubrn - What could you possibly be talking about?
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McMurdo
McMurdo - 9/16/2024, 8:48 PM
@cubrn - this film was laughably bad.
AliX
AliX - 9/17/2024, 1:07 PM
@McMurdo - According to many reviews it wasnt bad, I saw it in theaters and thought it was amazing. good thing your opinion is the minority.
harryba11zack
harryba11zack - 9/16/2024, 5:00 PM
didn't like the film and giving that final alien eyes really killed the design for me, newborn 2.0
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CorndogBurglar
CorndogBurglar - 9/16/2024, 7:09 PM
@harryba11zack - I'm baffled why they decided to revisit the human/xeno cross DNA birth hybrid alien again. They did it already I'm Resurrection and to this day it's the most ridiculously laughable scene of all the Alien movies.

I actually liked Romulus....until that happened. As soon as I realized that's what they were going to do I knew it was going to be bad. And then when they showed it all I could do was shake my head. They almost nailed this one. What a shame.
harryba11zack
harryba11zack - 9/16/2024, 7:14 PM
@CorndogBurglar - hated that they brought back the og alien only to then kill it again off screen. the film looked promising at the beginning with the Andy android being the highlight but once they introduced CGI Ash it all went to shit.
CorndogBurglar
CorndogBurglar - 9/16/2024, 7:16 PM
@harryba11zack - Yeah. I was disappointed by those things but would have been able to look past them, but the end, plus those things just killed it for me. They were so close.
MotherGooseUPus
MotherGooseUPus - 9/17/2024, 1:18 PM
@CorndogBurglar - 1000% agreed. Loved it until the final 15mins. But the more i think about it, the more disappointed this movie is for me. it tried SOOOOO HARD to pull ALL the alien movies together instead of doing it's own thing that it fell flat and almost lackluster. It had some bright spots but all the Prometheus and Resurrection connections ruined it for me... and that final 15mins. OOF
Stinkor1
Stinkor1 - 9/16/2024, 5:00 PM
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LSHF
LSHF - 9/16/2024, 5:04 PM
WINGS?!?

GAME OVER, MAN! GAME OVER!
grif
grif - 9/16/2024, 5:32 PM
we never needed to get here. if you dont want to make an alien movie its ok. just make whatever this is then call it something else.
SuperiorHeckler
SuperiorHeckler - 9/16/2024, 5:37 PM
During movie-production, it's not unusual for production/graphic designers to be told to go crazy and extreme with their ideas (specially for a monster movie). But, it doesn't mean any of those 'visual experiments' ever see the light of day. And thankfully, these "wings" didn't make the final cut. 🫤
McMurdo
McMurdo - 9/16/2024, 8:52 PM
@SuperiorHeckler - yeah like what makes this guy think wings make any sense in this universe. Dude read Donny Cates comics or something.
Izaizaiza
Izaizaiza - 9/16/2024, 5:45 PM
The movie was already pretty far off the rails by the time the "newborn" showed up. Not sure if it was savable at that point, regardless of design. IMO, of course
GeneralZod
GeneralZod - 9/16/2024, 6:11 PM
Bring back David.
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HashTagSwagg
HashTagSwagg - 9/16/2024, 6:42 PM
@GeneralZod - I hated this film but still somewhat glad it's making bank because I want them to go back to David and show us what he's been up to. I just hope the cast isn't as annoying and that it doesn't take another 7 years to come out.
McMurdo
McMurdo - 9/16/2024, 8:54 PM
@HashTagSwagg - it made money so they'll keep making terrible teen aliens without David unfortunately
HashTagSwagg
HashTagSwagg - 9/16/2024, 9:15 PM
@McMurdo - All the characters that bothered me in that film thankfully died. As long as Scott's involved there's hope for David's return, had that shit bombed someone else from behind the scenes likely would have taken over.
NinnesMBC
NinnesMBC - 9/16/2024, 6:12 PM
The penultimate design that is more in the sketch phase is my favourite.
HashTagSwagg
HashTagSwagg - 9/16/2024, 6:46 PM
The pointy bits sticking out are fine if it was gonna become a queen at some point but the wings make no sense unless they showed them experimenting on other creatures with the black goo like a bat or something. Still hate the eyes. They're worse than ressurection's Newborn.
Dotanuki
Dotanuki - 9/16/2024, 7:28 PM
No one can out Giger. That’s the truth!
Rosraf
Rosraf - 9/16/2024, 9:00 PM
Thanks for the giant unavoidable spoiler right at the top of the front page with a photo and headline. This movie was released 30 days ago. I was already running out of reason to visit this website, and I'm now adding reasons to actively avoided it.
TheWarThor
TheWarThor - 9/16/2024, 9:04 PM
Thanks for spoiling the movie for us, Mark Cassidy, you [frick]ing sack of shit.
I don't care about getting banned from this shitty site.

Seriously Mark - You did that for clicks without giving zero [frick]s about spoilers - you [frick]ing [foo foo]. I'd take a sledgehammer to your testicles if I could, you garbage human being.
Humperdoo
Humperdoo - 9/16/2024, 9:14 PM
Any hope of a decent Alien movie were thrown out the window when that thing was revealed. Movie became a joke.
AliX
AliX - 9/17/2024, 1:09 PM
@Humperdoo - Nah, Movie was perfect!
DocSpock
DocSpock - 9/16/2024, 9:59 PM

What hot alien chick traits does a he-man alien look for when he's checking them out at the alien meat market night club?

TheTurd
TheTurd - 9/16/2024, 11:35 PM
What we need is a two heads xenomorph or a cyborgmorph
mrbaconsock
mrbaconsock - 9/17/2024, 7:03 AM
That is Ridley the space pirate
dragon316
dragon316 - 9/17/2024, 7:26 AM
To much coming out of
Human don’t have wings
AliX
AliX - 9/17/2024, 1:09 PM
Best Alien film sice Aliens!

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