How ‘Alien: Romulus’ Used a Seven-Foot Basketball Player and VFX to Bring The Offspring to Life

people didn’t think that he was trying to attack her, but the mouth is still dangerous,” Macarin says.

Toward the end of the sequence, the action moves out into space (as the station begins to collide with the planet’s rings), which presented its own set of challenges. In terms of The Offspring, there was only so much that Bobroczkyi could perform.

“When they start saying, ‘We need him to hang from the ceiling. We need him to drop down,’ the actor can’t possibly do that – not in any safe way, anyway,” Macarin explains. “And we can’t replace them with a stunty, because we don’t have 7-foot 2 or 7-foot-5 stunties of his proportions that can do these either … So anything out in space, [Chailloleau] had to take over and build a fresh performance, drawing back on everything that the actor had done in earlier shots.”

Audiences have left the theater wondering about The Offspring’s close resemblance to the Engineers in “Prometheus” and Macarin affirms that referencing the larger “Alien”-universe was the filmmakers’ grand plan.

“It’s not something that you want to directly connect,” Macarin explains. “But if you hint that there’s a larger story there, there’s more mystery, and maybe we’re just seeing the beginnings of those ideas, it was definitely something that we wanted to explore.”