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Post #1614107

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Broom Kid
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Alien: Romulus - Alternate Cut (A Rook-Free Alien Experience)
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Date created
28-Oct-2024, 1:08 AM

Well, a mostly Rook-Free Alien Experience… mostly. Aside from two scenes of his prone, immobile and unspeaking half-torso, face-down on the floor, it turns out the character of Rook can be removed from the plot of Alien: Romulus with zero effect! Andy can also save Rain without needing to steal Ellen Ripley’s best lines! This edit is an alternate cut of late Summer 2024’s breakout horror hit, with some of the more egregious “memberberries” trimmed from its tree, along with an answer to the biggest question about it’s release: “Did they really have to do that?”

It’s not too radical a cut beyond that, though. The oft-described “big swing” ending featuring The Offspring is still intact, for example, and there are no CGI or AI implementations used in the edit as fixes. Aside from the edit’s main calling card (the aforementioned de-Rooking) the bulk of the remaining changes are a few second act sequences getting trimmed/slightly rearranged, some dialog removal (largely as part of the un-Rookifying, but sometimes not!) and some score re-edits, including a pair of excerpts from the Alien: Isolation soundtrack being layered into some key sequences.

PMs are open! 1hr 48min, 1080p, 2.40:1, 24fps, x264@13.5 Mb/s, Dolby Digital Plus 5.1 @640kbps

As always, if you’re thinking of making your own edit, and you see anything in here you really like? In the words of Brad Pitt in the famous documentary “Troy” - Take it! It’s yours!