Rook has a nearly identical appearance to the Nostromo's treacherous android named Ash that was portrayed by the acclaimed Ian Holm in Ridley Scott's "Alien." Since "Romulus" is set only two ...

No cameo on this list was more immediately unexpected than Ian Holm's "appearance" in Alien: Romulus, given that Holm passed ...

though it also had to deal with significant blowback over the decision to use the late Ian Holm's likeness for a new android character, Rook, modelled off his android Ash from the original Alien.

artists and supervisors rather it quite appropriately was Rook, the re-animated science officer designed to look like, and pay tribute to, Ian Holm’s duplicitous android in the original “Alien.” ...

I do this because I want people to be there in the audience and go, "Oh, f***ing hell, it's Ian Holm!' You rob them of that moment if they read it already online that he's going to be in the film." ...