How does prometheus connected to alien

Instead, they find an instillation with some sort of experiment gone wrong that has created some sort of horrible monster life. Long story short, in typical Alien fashion, they all die except for one woman, who escapes the planet with Michael Fassbender's decapitated android head.

Five years later, we're getting Alien: Covenant. The first trailer for the film showed a group of happy explorers going to visit a planet, only to discover the Xenomorphs from the original films. Now, it's unclear how, if at all, these films are connected except for one thing: Michael Fassbender's android chilling with another doomed crew.

Certainly anticipating that this film will be as confusing as the last, Ridley Scott has shared a number of short films to prime us for Alien: Convenant. The first one showed the new crew having one last party before setting off on their mission and inevitably to their doom.

The latest one, though, is a little bit more useful to following this derailed franchise. It picks off immediately after the events in Prometheus , with Dr. Elizabeth Shaw Noomi Rapace escaping with Fassbender's android head to the planet they believe is inhabited by the Engineers AKA the alien idiots who probably created the humans and also the Xenomorphs.

It picks off the crew one by one, leaving Ripley Sigourney Weaver and Jones, the ship's cat, alive. Arriving with a military squad, they find the sole human survivor, Newt, more face-huggers, a swarm of aliens and a pretty badass Queen.

There must be at least two face-huggers on board, though, and as they sleep one impregnates Ripley with a queen. A fire starts somehow and the humans' life pod ejects, landing near a penal colony on Fiorina Only Ripley and one other facehugger survive. Ripley kills the resulting alien, then dies by suicide by jumping into a furnace. They surgically remove the alien queen in order to breed the species, which escape on board the Auriga, killing many.

Auriga crashes into Earth's atmosphere and blows up. The Ripley clone, meanwhile, escapes aboard the Betty with the android Call. Digital Spy has launched its first-ever digital magazine with exclusive features, interviews, and videos. Interested in Digital Spy's weekly newsletter? How does he move from one goal to the other? But why release Covenant first, and leave this part of the story so obviously hanging? But the details at this point are largely a matter of inference.

This was also not covered in the film. The standalone prologue scene leaps from the two of them traveling together to visit the Engineers to David preparing to slaughter the Engineers, as seen in Covenant. It seems as though they had some kind of falling-out. But is that really true?

With Elizabeth safely in stasis, he may have planned all along to betray her, to preserve his own life, and forward his own agenda, rather than accepting hers. And sadly, the final moments of the film, with David triumphantly sealing Dani and Tennessee into their status capsules and planning their deaths, may parallel what he did with Elizabeth.

Maybe there was never an argument between them about what to do over the Engineers. He may have just sealed her away and then murdered her, because in spite of her kindness, her goals were never compatible with his. Shaw] goes next and what does she do when she gets there, because if it is paradise, paradise can not be what you think it is.

Paradise has a connotation of being extremely sinister and ominous. The universe is big. We know very little about the technology level of the Alien franchise, beyond the fact that they have starships and stasis pods. It seems like it would be pretty easy to miss a habitable planet here and there. Which raises the question: was the planet hidden in some way? Is there more to this plot point than just plot convenience?

Presumably David was broadcasting the signal to draw more sentient life forms to his world for experimental purposes. But why, instead of a broadband distress call, did he send an incredibly hard-to-receive, hard-to-interpret, badly damaged clip of a John Denver song? Presumably, that was just for dramatic purposes, and to somewhat disguise how close this plot beat is to the distress signal plot in the original Alien.

But it remains a strange choice for someone who clearly wants raw material for the next steps in his ongoing experiment. I have a couple of guesses here, neither of which are spelled out in the movie, but which do seem to fit fairly well. First, if he was observing them from a distance, he would have been aware of Walter, who is clearly another android built on his same model, and who gives up his arm in a bid to save Dani.

Then again, he may just want to preserve a few hosts for his specific favored strain of xenomorphs, the new breed of eggs and chestbursters. This one is actually fairly baffling. If David wants to spread his perfect creatures as far and wide as possible, why does he mutate them from something that can infect a host instantly and invisibly into something that requires a host to come to one specific place and stick its face into a giant egg? If anything, virally produced aliens mature much, much faster than the supposedly end-stage version we see in Alien.

Why is David breeding them away from that?