Heading into 2017,Alien: Covenantwas arguably one of themost highly-anticipated sequelsin a year absolutely crammed with big sequels. It came and is already close to gone without the kind of impact one might have expected it to have. Unfortunately for Fox, the movie wound up being quite divisive. Not to say that it would have bolstered the box office or anything, but it has now been revealed that a very awesome sounding fight scene was cut fromAlien: Covenantbefore it made its way to theaters.
Warning: spoilers ahead forAlien: Covenant. According to the fan siteAlien-Covenant.com, the two horribly fearsome aliens inAlien: Covenant, the white-skinnedNeomorphand the classic Xenomorph were supposed to fight one another in the movie. As it stands, the two creatures never shared a scene together, which feels like something of a missed opportunity after hearing about the scene. Here’s how the site says the scene was supposed to go down.
“According to our sources, the scene was originally going to play out when Daniels, Walter/David and Lope are running towards the lander, which Tennessee boarded to rescue the surviving Covenant crew. The Neomorph was going to be the one chasing Daniels and Lope and during that chase scene theXenomorphwould have revealed itself, attacking the Neomorph and asserting itself as the dominant Alien lifeform. The scene was meant to convey just how much larger and nastier the Xenomorph was compared to the already aggressive Neomorph.”
In the movie,Billy Crudup’s characterOram took care of David’s final (as far as we know) deadly Neomorph creation with a machine gun before the Xenomorph was unleashed on the Covenant crew. Since the Neomorph was a precursor to the Xenomorph, it would have been seemingly worth showing on screen how the Xenomorph is superior. What better way to do that than to have the two creatures duke it out and have the Xenomorph come out on top? It isn’t clear why the scene was changed and why the fight was cut, but Ridley Scott must have had his reasons. Since the Xenomorph has officially been unleashed and David has perfected his creation by the end ofAlien: Covenant, it isn’t likely we’ll ever have a chance to see this happen. At least not in a movie. Maybe in a comic book or a video game?
Ridley Scott has, or possibly had, somevery lofty plans for the Alienfranchise following the release ofAlien: Covenant. There is going to be one more prequel to the originalAlien, currently titledAlien: Awakening, and, if Scott still gets his way, there may be another entire trilogy ofAlienmovies at some other point in the series' timeline. However, sinceAlien: Covenanthas dramatically underperformed at the box office, currently sitting at $181.7 million against a $97 million production budget, those plans may be tempered a bit. Especially considering that this isn’t a great movie that people just aren’t seeing.Alien: Covenanthas been pretty divisive. Would some alien on alien brawling fixed those issues? Probably not, but who wouldn’t want to see that?
