Late Alien actor Ian Holm was brought back to life with AI technology for the new movie Alien: Romulus.
Warning: This article contains spoilers for ‘Alien: Romulus.’
Alien: Romulus is the latest installment in the science fiction movie franchise that began with Ridley Scott’s classic 1979 film Alien.
In the original Alien movie, late British actor Ian Holm plays the synthetic android Ash — a sleeper agent who is acting upon secret orders to bring back the dangerous alien lifeform and considers the human crew aboard commercial space tug Nostromo to be expendable.
Holm — who was also well-known for playing the older Bilbo Baggins in the Lord of The Rings and The Hobbit trilogies — passed away in June 2020 at the age of 88.
However, for the latest Alien: Romulusmovie, the filmmakers resurrected the late actor Holm as a …