I suppose it’s possible this story thread could still be explored in whatever the sequel to Alien: Covenant turns out to be-Scott says he has one or two films left before we hit the timeline of the original Alien-but the end of Covenant seems far more concerned with David.
In the context of the franchise, it appears we’ll never find out exactly why the Engineers targeted humanity for destruction-but Scott himself revealed the answer to that question back in 2012. So what happened to the story thread of following Shaw and David as they confront the Engineers? Well Alien: Covenant basically puts the whole Engineer story to bed as David wipes out the entire species before the Covenant ship even lands (though it’s possible some colonies elsewhere still exist). Basically, David hates humanity so much, and finds it so inferior, that he develops a species of his own-a predatory killing machine that rips anything resembling a human to shreds. Paradise has a connotation of being extremely sinister and ominous.”Īs we learn in Covenant, David developed an antagonistic relationship toward his own creator, Peter Weyland ( Guy Pearce) pretty much from the first minute he was “turned on.” But David played the waiting game, biding his time until he could exact revenge on his creator and his entire race- and the progenitor of that species itself. As she says, ‘This is not what I thought it was going to be, and I think we should get the Hell out of here or there won’t be any place to go back to.’ That’s not necessarily planted in the ground at the tail end of the third act, but I knew that’s kind of where we should go, because if we’ve opened up this door - which I hope we have because I certainly would like to do another one – I’d love to explore where the hell goes next and what does she do when she gets there, because if it is paradise, paradise can not be what you think it is. “Because are such aggressive fuckers … and who wouldn’t describe them that way, considering their brilliance in making dreadful devices and weapons that would make our chemical warfare look ridiculous? So I always had it in there that the God-like creature that you will see actually is not so nice, and is certainly not God. I know that to keep alive is essential and to keep alive is essential and to go where they came from, not where I came from, is essential.”Īs for what Shaw and David would find upon meeting the Engineers, Scott had already worked out that they would be portrayed as pretty evil beings:
Scott maintained that it was pertinent to keep both Shaw and David alive at the end of Prometheus to set them off on a path for the eventual sequel:
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