The new Alien film has enraged many with the re-appearance of an actor from the 1979 original – brought back from the dead using digital trickery. Is such anger justified?
in all the ways you might expect: it's got shadowy spaceships, a steely heroine and phallic beasties bursting out of people's chests. But the new instalment, produced by Scott and directed by Fede Álvarez, plays homage to Alien in a way you might not expect, too.One of its characters, Rook, is a robot who looks and sounds almost exactly like Ash, a robot played by Ian Holm in the first Alien.
The misstep made by Álvarez on Alien: Romulus was to give Rook almost as much screen time as the other characters. If the Holm-like android had been used sparingly, with a glimpse here and there, the effect would have been uncanny in a good way. If his head had been mangled by his encounter with an acid-blooded monster, we wouldn't have minded that he looked so zombie-ish.
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