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May 24, 2017 · Many of us speculated as to why David felt the need to destroy the Engineers and many wondered what he might have learned about their culture to instigate such a reaction. During a podcast with Empire Magazine, Ridley Scott explained the motives behind the Engineer race and why David bombed them.
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Subtle Differences Between The Two Movies Suggest An Entirely New Species
The theory, posed by reece1495 on Reddit, suggests that the Engineers David kills in Alien: Covenant weren't Engineers at all, but in another one of the supreme race's experiments. It's never actually stated what species Alien: Covenant's Engineers, a.k.a. "Space Jockeys," actually are, as David kills them all with the black goo in a very brief scene. However, many subtle details point to the Engineers in Covenant being different from the species introduced in 2012's Prometheus. The theory po...
The Engineers Aren't Compatible With David's Vision Of The Universe
While Alien: Covenant doesn't explain why David killed the Engineers, the theory and comments from director Ridley Scott help to provide an explanation. As an android himself, David was obsessed with the origins of humanity, his place in the universe as an artificially created being, and subsequently goes insane thanks to his existential crisis. If the beings he killed weren't Engineers his murderous actions would make a lot of sense. The creations of the Engineers, such as humanity and the u...
Humanity Was A Failed Experiment But Alien: Covenant May Have Showed A Successful One
Prometheus confirmed that the Engineers were the creators of humanity, as in the film's opening moments, an Engineer drinks some of the black substance, which causes his body to break down and his DNA to be disseminated into the Earth's ecosystem. However, Prometheus doesn't go into too much detail about the Engineers' actual plans and the scale of their command over the cosmos. Even so, since they created humanity, it's safe to assume that the Engineers also created other races across the un...
Fede Alvarez's Alien: Romulus Releases In 2024
Ridley Scott originally planned his Alien prequel series to be a trilogy of films leading up to the events of the original Alien film. However, after the release of two projects, the future of the third is still unclear. There is a new Alien movie in the works from horror director Fede Alvarez. Alien: Romulus will be the 9th in the franchise, and a loose synopsis has been revealed (via Variety). It will follow a younger cast than previous Alien movies, and will be set on a far-off world rathe...
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May 21, 2017 · David can create (and uses that talent to engineer alien life), while Walter cannot — an intentional limitation in his programming. But in a moving and seductive scene that’s been described as ...
May 11, 2018 · David likely killed Walter, removed his own hand and switched clothes with his synthetic brother. He then took a one way trip off of “Paradise” with embryotic tokens of his work in his synthetic...
Aug 22, 2023 · 188K subscribers. Subscribed. 10K. 517K views 6 months ago. One of the most confusing aspects of "Alien: Covenant" was David's act of killing the Engineers. This action isn't explained in...
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Apr 27, 2020 · Prometheus' Engineers and Alien: Covenant's Engineers look noticeably different, to the degree that some reviewers pondered whether the beings David slaughtered were even Engineers at all.(On May ...
May 19, 2017 · Daniels passes out screaming, David goes to the embryo room and coughs up a couple of facehugger embryos and puts them alongside the human embryos. He then records a log as Walter saying that all ...
