Instead, withPrometheusandCovenant, Scott wanted to replace the titular creature with another “alien” being.
Thus, Scott wanted Michael Fassbender’s rogue android David to become the new villain.
“David and Walter” are named in homage toAlienproducers and screenwriters David Giler and Walter Hill.
More than the differing accents between Walter and David, the former is notably far more roboticand clinical.
Walter, on the other hand, neither understands nor yearns for these pursuits.
Initially seeming like a paradise, the planet soon reveals dark secrets.
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Alien: Covenant, directed by Ridley Scott, follows the crew of the colony ship Covenant as they discover an uncharted planet. Initially seeming like a paradise, the planet soon reveals dark secrets. Katherine Waterston, Michael Fassbender, and Billy Crudup lead the cast in this science fiction horror film, which serves as a direct sequel to Prometheus and continues to explore the origins of the Alien species.
