(still collating)
a) A thought?
While thinking about the Alien: Romulus film, I can't help thinking about David Cronenberg's film Naked Lunch, and on September 7th 2024, it occurred to me that in curious ways that the two films seem related
b) Tom Frost and Clark Nova become Rook the android?
That film does involve Ian Holm playing Tom Frost, one of the hallucinatory villains of various sorts.
The character had the ability to have his lips saying one thing while out of his mouth came different words and his typewriter transformed into a weird biomorph, and so he was another character leading the main character Bill Lee astray in curious ways.
Ian Holm makes a appearance as an android named Rook in the Romulus film by sending the characters astray to completing his own mission for the corporation which is still hardwired as his top priority which he can't do having lost the lower half of his body
One of the hallucinatory characters from Naked Lunch is Clark Nova that's a talking beetle gives Bill Lee a mission, which is basically what the Rook character does to the android Andy.
c) Mugwump Jissom becomes alien beast semen?
The film has a plot involving (the slightly Giger inspired) Mugwumps hanging by ropes from the rafters in a warehouse are being milked for their addictive... ahem... jissom. There's also the black meat from the giant aquatic centipede that's turned into a powdered form. (see also: Echoes of Giger in Cronenberg’s mugwump from Naked Lunch)
In Romulus, the black goo from the Prometheus movie which is being produced in the space station is said by Fede Alvarez to be "the xenomorphs’ semen, almost"
d) Vagueness of the similarities
The similarities if any are only vague but Naked Lunch was a curious, imaginative film full of animatronics and I don't mind if Mr Alvarez found himself a little inspired by it whether he realised it or not
" Alien Romulus: Comparisons to Cronenberg's Naked Lunch?" was posted on September 29th 2024
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