Hey what's going on guys? Nick here with another Alien: Covenant deleted scene video.
Now I've been reading through the novelization for Alien: Covenant and it actually does have a lot of the stuff from
the early scripts of the film, and stuff that I actually didn't even know was part of the material for the film.
Like you know, alternate dialogue sequences, stuff that kind of fleshes out character decisions, motivations, and things like that.
I might do a separate video on kind of like the main differences actually between the novelization and the final film.
But make no mistake, the novelization was written by Alan Dean Foster who is obviously a veteran of the Alien franchise in terms of the novels.
And also, they do credit all of the screenwriters and story writers in the novelization, so I have to assume that this is based off of a fairly late draft of the script.
You know the screenplay that was actually part of the production.
So all of what I'm about to say in this video is based off a pretty big deleted scene from the novel that actually changes a lot about the Xenomorph origin as we know it
So SPOILER ALERT here if you guys haven't seen Alien: Covenant, obviously don't watch this video.
But Ridley Scott has said in interviews that David was the creator of the Xenomorph.
He found that that was a more interesting route to take it, rather than having the Engineers be the creators of the Xenomorph or some other origin.
Now in Alien: Covenant it isn't explicitly clear as to who created the Xenomorph.
It's clear that David created the version of the Xenomorph that we see in this film; that's pretty much made clear.
But we don't know whether or not he was simply imitating something that he had found or just that he had created this all on his own through cross hybridization and things like that.
Now the novel does clear up something very big. When David takes Oram down into his lab, it's filled with all of the kind of gruesome sights that we saw in the film.
You know the dissected Engineers corpse, tiny Neomorph specimens that have been preserved, you know the "failed experiments" as he called them.
Things like that, the insects. But most notably in the novelization there are corpses or sort of models of something that resembles the classic Giger alien.
David shows Oram a petrified Facehugger's egg, which he reveals that he euthanized because it was far too aggressive.
Now the interesting thing is that he mentions that this Facehugger egg was left behind by the Engineers themselves.
And he says quote "It's a supreme example of their skill."
In his attempts to create the alien, seemingly he is trying to emulate this one left by the Engineers.
And he also does confirm the novelization, that the aliens take on characteristics of their hosts species like we saw the dog alien in Alien3 which is just a nice little reference there.
But the alien egg being left behind by the Engineers is probably the biggest thing that the novelization provides, because that definitely contradicts what
Ridley Scott has said in interviews by suggesting that the Engineers did actually create their own version of the Xenomorph, and that Davids attempts to kind of recreate
it are just simply imitations, or him trying to perfect the creature like he kept mentioning the perfect organism.
So we don't know if Ridley actually shot this sequence and just cut it out of the film, or if he actually never shot it and it was just part of the screenplay and he just opted to go with the whole David origin route.
But this is a pretty big thing for me personally, because in terms of the Xenomorphs origin, I would much rather prefer if it was something that the
Engineers had first come up with and that David was just simply trying to recreate something that they had done, rather than him being the sole father of the alien Xenomorphs as we know them.
But leave your own thoughts down in the comment section below. What do you guys think of this massive change?
And do you guys consider this to be the version of the origin or do you much prefer, David being the sole creator of the Xenomorphs?
So I'll definitely have more of these deleted scene videos in the days to come. As always thanks for watching, my name is Nick and for more on the Alien and Predator universe, subscribe to the Hybrid Network.