Advertisementįurther Reading Science gets burned by PrometheusĪliens has a thriving tie-in universe, with a tremendous range of tie-in novels and multiple graphic novel series with his re-entry into the genre, Scott’s actions will likely wipe away a significant amount of established (though non-canonical) lore, much as he erased the previous non-canon history of the Engineers with Prometheus. With the abandonment of the 'Prometheus' part of the title and the embracing of the 'Alien' name, though, it seems like Scott has decided to damn the torpedoes and go full speed ahead on fully revisiting the universe (indeed, Fox’s tweet explicitly calls Alien: Covenant 'the next installment in the Alien franchise').

That there would be a Prometheus 2 was considered pretty much as a given, but it’s been unclear how much deeper into the Alien mythos Scott has wanted to take the film. The movie closed on somewhat of an open ending, with the protagonist kiting off in a stolen Engineer spacecraft with the apparent intent of visiting the Engineer’s home world. The scary chest-bursting aliens themselves were never seen on camera-although their biological precursors had several bits of screen time. During development, the film swerved into less of a direct prequel and more of an origin story, giving glimpses of the enormous humanoid 'Engineers' apparently responsible for the creation of the titular aliens (and who, incidentally, also seeded life here on Earth).

The first Prometheus film had a tortured development process, being first pitched as a straight prequel to Scott’s 1979 Alien. Further Reading The throwaway line in Aliens that spawned decades of confusion

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