ALIEN ROMULUS with edits by BUMULUS. Version 3.2. See edit notes below. 

This is the HOMUNCULUS EDIT, which features the original theatrical ending. For the
version without this (no "offspring" scenes), please get the original BUMULUS edit. 

Currently, the BUMULUS edit on TPB is 3.1 but I'm shortly going to upload the 3.2 
version of that and then I'm done.

Reading below, all the changes apply to the HOMUNCULUS edit, too. 

Video Details

Length
Frame Width	3840
Frame Height	1600
Bitrate		11624kbps
Frame Rate	24 frames/second
Video Track	MP4
Chapters	No

Audio Details

Bit Rate	314kbps
Channels	2 (Stereo)
Sample Rate	48.000 kHz

I have been asked to make a 5.1 version of this edit, but currently that's outside of
my abilities. I don't have a program that handles these audio streams and I'd also have
to edit all my foley work positionally in the new mix. This would take a very long time. 

IF I'd just chopped parts out of the film and rejoined sections then it'd be possible, 
I suppose, if I had the tools, but I have added many sections of new audio and foley 
work and have no means to test a 5.1 soundstage here (I'm working on $0 budget and only
have a very primitive stereo setup in my home).

Subtitles

I am looking for someone to subtitle this edit. If you are interested, please get in
touch! Subtitlers should use only the official subtitles and cut them around the edits, 
so as to be as correct as is possible. 

NOTES ON THE BUMULUS EDIT

This edit was designed to do a few things. Firstly, I wanted to remove the majority of the
awful "Memberberry" dialogue that pops up in the film. You know, the words and phrases
lifted directly from both Alien and Aliens. 

This required some chopping and changing, and also some additional foley and audio work to
both match the flow of the original film and also, in some cases, to heighten tension in
certain scenes with new audio - or to replace chunks of audio that were originally filled
with dialogue. 

The following changes were made to dialogue. 

1) Removed Andy's "I prefer the term 'artificial person' myself" line
2) Removed certain parts of Rook's initial dialogue about the Xenomorph
3) Removed Andy's "Busy little creatures" line on discovering the hive
4) Removed Rook's "You have my sympathies" monitor broadcast
5) Cut down Andy's "Get away from her, you bitch" line to "Get away from her"

Secondly, I rebalanced some of the sound and boosted some of the treble frequencies as
well as increasing and levelling out the overall volume of the film. 

The sound design in Romulus IS excellent BUT I feel that some of the dialogue is muffled
and can get lost. This is, ultimately, hard to fix without the raw dialogue files from
the actors, but I think it's more audible now. I tried my best.  

EDITS IN 1.0 

1) Removed Andy's "I prefer the term artificial person" dialogue, adding music under
this to underscore that the Yvaga revelation is a plot point for him. Also cut and
pasted a bunch of dull humming ambience to bridge the cuts during this section. 

2) Removed a chunk of Rook's dialogue when he's initially found and starts talking
about the alien. Added ambience and dripping foley FX to cover the removal of his speech.

3) Added a more intense musical buildup (in my opinion) during the backwards tracking
shot when the hive is discovered.

4) Cut out Kay taking/looking at the black goo and condensed the lift section with
edits and foley work.

5) Changed the "get away from her, you bitch" scene by adding music and making a cut to
remove the "you bitch" words. 

6) Added music under the "you're coming with me to Yvaga" section. I think this lifts it 
a little and adds a hint of victory/resolution (being as, in this cut, it's the end of 
the film). I left in the "I'll fix you" line, as Andy is, technically, a little busted up 
from the alien attack AND his programming has once again regressed to the way it was 
prior to his update, when he was a little janky. 

NEW EDITS IN 2.0

1) Cut Bjorn's nose flick of Andy as he boards the ship. As Bjorn is meant to despise
synthetics, this seemed a little too convivial and familiar. A personal choice. 

2) Cut Bjorn's smoking during the takeoff segment. Removed for time/tone. 

Added engine foley FX to bridge these cuts and keep everything together nicely.

I kept the smiling between the other characters, though. This is Rain's first time in 
space (and Andy's, too, as far as we know), and I think the smiling/happiness works to
convey the excitement of this.
 
3) Extended the music I added in 1.0 under the scene where Tyler explains to Andy that he
will not be travelling with them to Yvaga.

4) Cut all screen time of Rook during the black goo lab scene and substantially cut
his dialogue in this section. 

Changed the shot order somewhat and focused more on Andy and his exposition. 

Added foley FX for bubbles, ambience and  hydraulic release of the fluid cannister 
(these were all originally obscured by dialogue)

5) Cut Rook's "You are inferior" rant just before he's ejected into space and added a
musical riser to bridge the edit. Again, an edit designed to give CGI Rook as little
screen time as possible and to keep his character cold and sinister, rather than having 
him turn into a pantomime villain. 

Masked a little of Rook, also, by putting the "Purge" screen closeups over this part and
time stretching them to take up more time. 

6) Removed the flight recorder dialogue audio completely and added FX for the ship engines
which were previously underneath this dialogue. Thanks to u/thelastcupoftea for
suggesting removing this speech, it completely makes sense to do so. It's needless and, 
arguably, is also a memberberry (very much reminiscent of Ripley's lines in Alien).

7) Added two layers of rocket sounds during the final scene showing the ship, one of which
cuts out as the booster rockets stop. 

NEW EDITS IN 3.0

1) Removed Bjorn's "what are we gonna do?" protestations after Tyler declares that there's 
not enough fuel in the cryopods. This is too reminiscent of Hudson from Aliens, and is also
needless. It detracts from the unease/uncertainty created by Tyler's announcement and I 
think that sombre silence works better in this situation.
 
Added background ambience foley and footsteps (walking on plate/walking on gantry) with
music overlay to fill up the silence created by removing Bjorn's voice from this section.

2) Slightly cut Tyler's interaction with the tracker tool and time-stretched the display 
footage to cover up dead space in the edit so that it bookends with the cut back to Andy.

3) Removed the shot of Rook steadying himself when the Corbelan hits the station after the 
chestburster scene. 

4) In the lab scene, I removed the digital artefacting present in the previous 2 edits.

I also Cut Rain's "Andy, are you there?" line. Too hamfisted. Cut to just "Andy?". Added 
transition music after this to smooth the cut into the tunnel scene. 

This line is too hand holding. I think, by this point, anyone watching would understand
that Andy's change in personality is troubling Rain. It's "internal monologue expressed
externally" and is, as stated, a little overkill.

5) Changed the music crescendo that I'd added in 1.0 during the hive tracking shot, as I
wasn't 100% happy with how it tailed off towards the end. 

6) Cut Tyler's death scene down, bridging the shot with new alien hiss audio and more 
intense music. The reason for this is twofold:

I) The "Is that all you got?" feels a lot like another Hudson callback , but it's weak and
adds nothing. Tyler can't actually fight back, so the lines are pointless and out of place. 
They feel like ADR and don't sit right with me, weakening the scene. 

II) In the original cut, the alien has him in its grip and more aliens begin to crawl
towards him. It's cool to see these aliens, BUT what happens to these aliens after he's 
dead? We know that they're not stupid creatures, so why do they not immediately attack 
Rain and Kay? This doesn't make sense, so I removed that section entirely.

7) I cut Rook's mocking from the screen in the hive corridor exit scene completely. I cut
the footage around a little so that rain doesn't try the closed vent as an exit route and
shouts to andy to unlock the main door as they're running towards it. 

Added foley FX for Rain's footsteps and changed the music cues I'd added a little (to 
create more tension)

8) Cut the Rook dialogue onboard the ship when talking to Rain and Andy and cut his 
screentime once again. The "This must get back to the company!" section isn't needed, 
in my opinion. I also think this makes him both a bit pantomime and a little too human, 
neither of which add anything to the film and, in my opinion, detract from how cold the 
Rook character should be. 

I added foley FX for Andy's footsteps and some extra music under this scene to mask the 
section previously covered by Rook's ranting. 

Oddly, when this rant takes place, there's a shot where Rook's face isn't moving on the 
computer, anyway. Again, I suppose it's a case of needless ADR in case the audience 
still didn't "get it"?

9) Changed the rocket booster timing/levels slightly during the transition from Rain in
her cryopod to the external ship shot. 

NEW EDITS IN 3.1

1) Slightly changed the duration of the transition music between rain and Andy in the
hive corridor and Kay back on the ship

2) Edited the facehugger chase scene a LOT. Thanks to u/MGM for nudging me to do this. 
The scene presents problems when editing, as there's only so much footage to work with.

In reality (in my opinion) the scene should have kicked off with radio crackle, then
a brief line of dialogue so Kay can explain her predicament. This would have kicked off
the facehugger chase and then the film could have intercut between the two scenes to
reach a suitable crescendo with both. In this case, Tyler could have just been shouting
down the radio as the facehuggers were already chasing by that time. This would have 
made the scene much more dramatic and raised the tension on both sides of the radio
conversation. 

The way the scene is in the film is just badly done, and there should be little to no
dialogue from Tyler in the form they chose to play it out in. They've been told to 
make NO noise, so having a "vaguely quiet" radio conversation seems both out of place
and a touch suicidal. Unfortunately, as stated, there's only so much that can be 
done with the footage as it is. 

So, I cut that back to Tyler having only one line. I also added heartbeat and loud
breathing over the scene where he starts to sweat, to at least attempt to provide a
reason as to why the facehuggers suddenly notice him, despite a radio conversation
taking place right next to them in the minute or so leading up to this. 

I had to move a lot of footage around, and I added foley sound for radio static, 
facehugger movement, heartbeats, breathing, the door switch, the door and some other 
stuff.

I also increased the volume of the chase music and added a lot of other short musical
cues during the scene to both heighten tension and bridge the plethora of edits that
were required. 

I did originally cut a version of this scene with the radio static kicking off the
facehugger chase, and the situation with Kay happening after the trio had made it
through the door at the end of the corridor BUT there was no "realisation" shot for
either Tyler or Rain to convey that they'd realised Kay had probably died, and that
was bad for continuity, so I scrapped that edit (shame, really, as it was much more
intense in this form and I spent a lot of time on it).

NB: As an aside, I've seen people stating that this scene is a ripoff of the central
conceit of "A quiet place". I don't believe this is so. Remember, Fede made his film,
"Don't breathe", a long time before that came out. 

3) Added 3 subtle bursts of monitor/static buzz at the point where Andy steps back 
from the monitor on the ship after Rook asks him to stop Rain's plan, to tie in with
the scene a little better. The video monitor does break up a little, and previous 
instances of this in the film are accompanied with static bursts. I had previously
changed the audio in this section, adding music and footsteps, so adding the static
serves to further bring the scene together.  

NEW EDITS IN 3.2

1) Added very soft footsteps as Andy turns to Rook and Tyler takes a step forward as 
he's explaining what the Alien did to the station.

2) Removed the section where Rook asks the computer if the compound is damaged after 
the collision. Again, it's needless handholding and not required. Added music and 
engine hum to bridge the transition between the shot of Andy and the external station 
shot.

3) Moved tracking shot of Rain very slightly and timestretched it a little to cover 
a frame or two of Rook that accidentally appeared in the lab scene in older edits.

4) Changed musical cue as Andy takes out the cylinder in the lab to more correctly 
match the tone/cues in the scene.

5) Very slightly raised the level of the monitor crackle that I added in 3.1 during 
the scene where Andy steps back to side with Rain after Rook asks him to stop her.

And, with that, I think I'm pretty much done with the edits on this one. However, if
anyone has any (not ridiculous) suggestions, I'm all ears. 

I hope everyone enjoys this. You can email me at [email protected] with queries.

Next up, I will make a version of my 3.1 edit WITH the hybrid/offspring ending, 
and that'll be me done with this film. 

DO NOT watch this edit unless you own a digital copy of the film or are subscribed to
the platform that shows the film. I DO NOT CONDONE PIRACY. Support artists and creators!