So is Ridley ever going to revisit the Engineer plotline and explain why they wanted humans dead and what exactly the black goo is?
So is Ridley ever going to revisit the Engineer plotline and explain why they wanted humans dead and what exactly the black goo is?
I fricking hope not
The more it gets explained the worse it gets.
This. Ridley went full senile and only cares about David at this point.
He intended the point of Covenant to set up David as the creator of the xenomorphs, meaning in a hypothetical sequel he would get access to another Engineer ship, fill it with xeno eggs and then through some means get foiled in his plans have the ship end up on LV.
Nevermind the scientific instruments implying the Derelict had been on LV for like a million years.
It's already been explained. The goo recombinates DNA. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad. The engineers trust it
So it's analogous to the monolith in 2001
it's more like deus ex nanomachina. It just does whatever the writers want it to do.
>explain
The writers were in freewheel anon, ask them to explain anything and they'll just write another poetry bullshit.
Just finish up the original biblical lore to the engineers. Why does anyone still care about the jokey being ruined? It already has, and the Aliens series has had biblical imagery since Alien 3 (kino if you watch the assembly cut).
Wasn't it implied somewhere we were chosen for destruction because Christ was an Engineer or an Engineer envoy and we crucified him?
Yes, it's in the original script
that Christ was a child taken from Earth and taught their ways of peace and enlightenment at the time, then when returned the other humans tortured and killed him.
>teach a human about peace and shit
>he looks, sounds, acts and dresses like every other preacher in Judea
>dont give him any technology or anything
>it fails
Why did it all go wrong?
Maybe they did give him something and that's why he was performing miracles? I dunno, they didn't flesh it out that far
No. How could we have known?
That is genuinely interesting, and a whole lot better than what we ended up getting. What the hell
>wanted humans dead
based
>black goo
primordial soup mix
they wanted humans dead because we killed space jesus
Is raised by wolves good ridley or bad ridley ?
its written by someone else, so it could be good.
its interesting, even if it is nonsense at this point and it wont be getting explained any time soon.
Who cares about that? When will Ridley gives us 9ft tall, big titty, buff, bald women who want snu snu with the puny human males
Angels can't be female, Eve was made from Adam.
Gladiator 2 was first announced 20 years ago.
of course not, writing them would be difficult.
if he has any sense they would be a long dead race with the odd stasis survivor.
i roll my eyes at the <<deleted scene>> showing them only for david to conveniently wipe them out to avoid having to come up with any actual story purpose for them, let alone dialogue.
he couldnt even think of anything for shaw to do, so what does he do? kill her off screen. horribly. because that sort of shit worked so well in alien 3 rite?
fricking waste of potential movie
Ridley got fired, that happened like two years ago. The prequels are currently dead, as are ALL the Engineers. David killed them. All of them. From the mouth of Ridley Scott. You see, when you go to a sit-down with Disney corporate execs, looking to get your third prequel done you might want to have a script ready. Especially when you make flop after flop. Disney humored Ridley by sitting down with him, because he is still highly respected and don't forget he's a fricking SIR Ridley now. Except he got Lucas'd. He's extremely lucky the Blade Runner franchise is owned by Alcon as at least they will let him produce. The poor moron STILL has the same "announced" status on his imdb for two years straight now. It's pathetic and I hate his fricking guts.
The wrong brother killed himself.
gladiator 2
fricking hell, is it going to be a prequel too coz we all need to know how he became a high ranking roman soldier....
It's about his horses and their adventures in creating a rebellion against Rome
I expect there to be androids in it
It'll never get made, it's not even in pre-production and Ridley hasn't directed a single thing since covid hit. He's also 84 years old and drinks and smokes cigars.
Gladiator 2 where it turns out to be set in the prometheus universe and has to fight engineer jesus
>So is Ridley ever going to revisit the Engineer plotline and explain why they wanted humans dead and what exactly the black goo is?
No, idiots didn't want that, they wanted more xeno, so he gave them what they want. Prometheus will have to do.
>I fricking hope not
seconded
senile Scott doesn't deserve picrel
They were disappointed in their creation. The whole point of the first movie was "what if your creator whom you idolized hated you and wanted you gone." That's why the Engineer listens to David briefly, then gets violent, because he realizes the humans didn't go the way they planned.
Why were they disappointed?
Why would they have absolutely no curiosity about who contacted them, and make no effort to communicate at all?
Why would they not know about, or keep tabs about humans?
What's so bad about making androids?
Why would the Engineers give a star map leading to a deadly weapons research planet?
This movie makes no fricking sense, and if there IS some bumbling head cannon the writers have in mind, there is nothing in the script that explains any of it.
Its' a fricking moronic reaction from the roided white supremacist (not that there anything wrong with that) gayonneers
Frick Scott for directing this poorly written piece of shit instead of demanding better from them and the studio.
>Space Hulk smash slightly more puny human!
That's all there is to it. You've already put more thought into the story than Ridley did.
Almost all of your answers are in the script actually. They had a long speech for the engineer to say and he explained almost everything you're asking. The script even says that speaking takes so much effort for this advanced race that it removes centuries from their lives and he starts straining from it. But then they decided they wanted to be more mysterious and didn't put it in the actual movie, just left in the part where he wakes up then skipped to where he chimps out.
>The script even says that speaking takes so much effort for this advanced race that it removes centuries from their lives and he starts straining from it
I cannot fathom any reason for this that isn't moronic
That's what a billion years advanced evolution over humans does. They fly around in big empty spaceships with a flute to pass the time.
>Prometheus is so good! Well, not the story. Or the actors. But the visual effects outweigh everything else and make it enjoyable! Covenant is shit, tho.
Both are not done and not to do, failed projects and mediocre scifi movies.
On a visual level they are nearly identical and display standard Hollywood CGI. I don't get why fans of Prometheus rave about the vfx. And if Fassbender wasn't in it gaying things up then apparently the whole movie would have fallen apart even more.
I don't get it
the guy they let out of the pod or whatever was a huge 7 foot tall greek god, literally pale like marble
these guys just look like crackheads how is that the same race of "pure" human forebears
The new design was cheaper, like everything else in Covenant.
>why they wanted humans dead
They just wanted to reduce carbon chud.
They wanted humans dead because we killed Jesus who was an engineer they sent to teach us how to live right. I am not making any of this up
>They wanted humans dead because we killed Jesus who was an engineer they sent to teach us how to live right. I am not making any of this up
WRONG,
Jesus was a child the engineers ubducted and thought, then they sent him to earth and he was crucified thus angaring the Engineers very much
Look guys, Alien 3 is really good.
>So is Ridley ever going to revisit the Engineer plotline
No, apparently Ridley is pulling a Lucas (being pouty that no one likes his stuff anymore, so he's taking his ball and going home, or letting Disney have their way with it).
>and explain why they wanted humans dead
prevailing theory is realizing the Human race was a mistake they need to correct.
>what exactly the black goo is?
science experiment stuff, this was sort of explained in Covenant.
>Science experiment stuff
It's supposed to be modified blood of the first Deacon.
Basically there was an ayy, a progenitor xenomorph that was discovered by the engineers. It's blood broke them down into primordial soup and this somehow "saved them" from themselves and they formed a religion around it and seeded earth with it.
The black goo doesn't simply break you down though, it breaks you down and recreates deacons.
They're like a race of alien norferners
no