'Alien: Romulus' director Fede Alvarez, star Cailee Spaeny discuss pitting young characters against the Xenomorph, recasting the resident synthetic as a sibling, and more.
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Therefore, the dynamic between these young characters is not that of co-workers, comrades, or cellmates so much as… well, siblings. Alvarez hints that that relationship is what the new film’s title refers to, with its invocation of the two mythical brothers who supposedly founded Rome. “All their parents probably worked on the same ship when they were kids, and that’s how they got to know each other,” Alvarez says. “There’s a lot of history between them because they're the only family they have. They truly act more like surrogate siblings; some of them even lived under the same roof.
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