Alien: Romulus (2024 film directed by Fede Álvarez) (previously: So Disney has ordered a direct-to-Hulu Alien movie)

[FBC Director 10,606]

They sent mine without tracking.

[ddddeeee 537]

[D_A_R_T_H 28]

The Romulus Suite EP (from Alien: Romulus)
 

Side One

The Romulus Suite (13:49)

Side Two - Previously Unreleased Bonus Tracks

Lockdown
Awakening
Romulus Hangar Bay
Body Temperature
I Have A New Directive
The Hive

Not available in CD or Streaming....  Grrrr !!!


 

https://www.madebymutant.com/release/507502-benjamin-wallfisch-the-romulus-suite-ep-from-alien-romulus

[FBC Director 10,606]

No downloads? Why are these labels so averse to plain and simple downloads?

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 11,649]

34 minutes ago, Lady Dimitrescu said:

No downloads? Why are these labels so averse to plain and simple downloads?

 

Ownership of music is theft!

[FBC Director 10,606]

Those poor starving dead composers I like. Welp it was a good run.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 11,649]

Ai can do the job just as well in 2027.

[Edmilson 11,476]

I can't remember anything about this score. It was very forgettable.

[Jim 6,136]

9 hours ago, Lady Dimitrescu said:

Welp

 

Oh no. Never again will you be allowed to call others out for their banal adage 

 

 

[FBC Director 10,606]

Tew bad

[Imperivm 255]

On 16/08/2025 at 10:26 AM, D_A_R_T_H said:

The Romulus Suite EP (from Alien: Romulus)
 

Side One

The Romulus Suite (13:49)

Side Two - Previously Unreleased Bonus Tracks

Lockdown
Awakening
Romulus Hangar Bay
Body Temperature
I Have A New Directive
The Hive

 

On 16/08/2025 at 10:26 AM, D_A_R_T_H said:

Not available in CD or Streaming....  Grrrr !!!

Comes out tomorrow on digital! 😁😁

https://www.qobuz.com/nz-en/album/alien-romulus-suite-ep-benjamin-wallfisch/pecrf6xvioq1a

 

Finally! Wallfisch had mentioned on Twitter that it would be out also digitally, but I wasn't really sure if was going to. Let's see how it's gonna be!

[12-Mile Reef 152]

Is the suite made up of film cues (if so, does anyone have a breakdown?) or is it a suite of ideas he wrote at the beginning of production (in which case is it samples or a real orchestra?)?

[1977 1,983]

Well the last 40 seconds or so is definitely from the end of the first cue on the OST. 

 

Nice that we now have a clean opening for that. I could never stand that horrible whispering cacophony that leads into it (before the female voices start).

 

Having listened to the extra cues today, I can say that (grinding electronica noise notwithstanding) the OST is a fine representation of the score and nothing really significant was excluded.

[D_A_R_T_H 28]

Possible Chronological order (NOT SURE) 

 

The Chrysalis 
That's Our Sun 
Wake Up
Entering Nostromo 
Searching
Lockdown 
Awakening  
There's Something in the Water 
XX121 
He's Glitchy
Run!
Romulus Hangar Bay   
I Have a New Directive 
Body Temperature 
Prometheus Fire
The Hive  Part 1
The Hive  part 2 
Andy 
Guns V Acid Blood
Elevator Shaft Attack
Get Away from Her
Gravity Purge
The Offspring
Collision Warning
Rain
Sleep 

End credits

Bonus 
 

Alien Romulus Suite
The Offspring (Album Version)

Maybe the Suite contains unreleased tracks and we can cut them up and distribute them to the right places? 

 If anyone has any information, it would be greatly appreciated...

[The Score Cleaner 9,298]

11 hours ago, 1977 said:

Well the last 40 seconds or so is definitely from the end of the first cue on the OST. 

 

Nice that we now have a clean opening for that. I could never stand that horrible whispering cacophony that leads into it (before the female voices start).

 

 

Not a fan of Sprechstimme huh?

 

 

[1977 1,983]

4 hours ago, Little Ghost said:

Not a fan of Sprechstimme huh?

 

I don't mind the cases you cited. What bothers me more is the electronic grating and grinding that colours this score in places (I find the whole Offspring cue completely unlistenable).

 

Wallfisch's orchestral writing is brilliant, I don't understand why he needed to lean into that other sound at all.

[D_A_R_T_H 28]

The Chrysalis 
That's Our Sun 
Wake Up
Entering Nostromo 
Searching
Lockdown 
Awakening  (choice 1)
There's Something in the Water 
XX121 
He's Glitchy
Run!
Romulus Hangar Bay   
I Have a New Directive 
Body Temperature 
Prometheus Fire
The Hive  Part 1
Awakening  (choice 3)
The Hive  part 2 
Awakening  (choice 2)
Andy 
Guns V Acid Blood
Elevator Shaft Attack
Get Away from Her
Gravity Purge
The Offspring
Collision Warning
Rain
Sleep 
End credits

Alien Romulus Suite

 

note I had placed Awakening after The Hive, but a YouTube page (search for something like  "alien romulus expanded score") places it after Lockdown.  

 

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 11,649]

I'm gonna say it. I really enjoyed Alien: Romulus!

[Edmilson 11,476]

7 hours ago, 1977 said:

Wallfisch's orchestral writing is brilliant, I don't understand why he needed to lean into that other sound at all.

Agreed. He can write incredible orchestral music, and yet, whether it's because of directors' or studios' requests or just a desire to be more "modern", he keeps drowning his orchestra in the most insufferable gritty electronics possible.

 

I have no interest in his horror stuff.

[1977 1,983]

4 hours ago, #SnowyVernalSpringsEternal said:

I'm gonna say it. I really enjoyed Alien: Romulus!

 

If you mean the film, then yes, it was rather a good entry. I liked that it honoured what had been done before without mimicking it directly (i.e. the Maginot stuff on A:E). I also liked Rook and despite the complaints about it thought it was well executed (better than CG Tarkin and infinitely better that de-aged Henry Jones Jnr).

 

I could have done without all the dialogue callbacks though (busy little creatures, get away from her etc.) and I'm not a fan of the ("surprise!") 4th act Newborn Redux. I also would have liked Isabella Merced's character to survive, I thought her performance was excellent. They could have easily kept her alive by having Rain or Andy intervene to stop the Offspring from killing her.

[Marian Schedenig 11,177]

5 hours ago, #SnowyVernalSpringsEternal said:

I'm gonna say it. I really enjoyed Alien: Romulus!

 

I liked much about it, but at the same time it was frustrating, and increasingly so as the overdone callbacks got worse and the overall story and characters made less and less sense as it went on.

[Mr. Hooper 7,670]

19 minutes ago, Marian Schedenig said:

I liked much about it, but at the same time it was frustrating, and increasingly so as the overdone callbacks got worse and the overall story and characters made less and less sense as it went on.

E.g., "Get away from her, you bitch!"

[ManofDestiny 104]

OK, I've try to go through the movie and compare both two albums.

And I can't locate all the EP tracks and some OST tracks.

I think the OST album is mostly film order but "Wake Up" goes before "That's Our Sun".

Also, not sure where is "The Hive" used in the film.