See these actors? See how none of them are particularly young or buff or beautiful, but instead look like real people with actual life experience? The kind of people who would be trusted to fly space ships? See how that helps you believe in what's happening on screen? The Alienβ¦
Alien: Romulus is said to follow "a group of young people on a distant world, who find themselves in a confrontation with the most terrifying life form in the universe." This isn't a surprise given the film's casting, it's a departure from the original: