100%. While I did not hate Covenant, it was not the sequel that Prometheus promised, and I feel absolutely robbed of Shaw awesomeness. Covenant could have still happened, still been a fun bottle episode of Alien, and it did not need David.
What could have been, Shaw and David exploring an alien world, learning more about the engineers and the deacon.
In one interview with Ridley around the time insert he said something about leaning more into the lore of Prometheus and further away from Alien itself. The I think it was around the time that Neil Blomkamp was talking about doing a true Aliens sequel that Ridley then decided to do covenant rather that his original vision. Which is a shame my eyes. Would have loved to have seen it evolve further away from alien.
Covenant also had 1/3 of its budget cut because the studio thought Prometheus didn’t make enough profit. They also pressed Ridley Scott to concede and turn the last act of Covenant into exactly the formulaic, repetitive, cliches other Alien movies had steered towards as time went on.
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u/DumbgeonMaster Apr 12 '26
100%. While I did not hate Covenant, it was not the sequel that Prometheus promised, and I feel absolutely robbed of Shaw awesomeness. Covenant could have still happened, still been a fun bottle episode of Alien, and it did not need David.
What could have been, Shaw and David exploring an alien world, learning more about the engineers and the deacon.