It is kind of odd that Katherine Waterston hasn't been approached about the final film. I'm torn about whether I'll bother even watching a third film because I guess I was one of the weirdos that liked exploring the idea of the Space Jockey and was very excited that the Prometheus film was going to do this...or so I thought. I was disappointed with the Deacon thing in Prometheus, but then when Shaw and David left in the Juggernaught to head to the Engineer's home world, I thought maybe just maybe there would be more about the Engineers. Then Covenant comes along and I'm not sure what film I'm watching, and for me the only thing that tied Covenant to Prometheus was the character David. The Engineers are wiped out by David and that's the end of that. So like Jan in the "Brady Bunch," it's David, David, David. What's the deal with David? I don't find the character that interesting anymore now that there is no interaction with Shaw. If all this mischief is caused by a synthetic like David, then just create another synthetic to fix and undo everything that David has done...problem solved.
So to xenomorph or not to xenomorph...is that Ridley's question? Is Ridley still planning to go full circle with a tie-in to the 1979 Alien film? Can he tie the film in anymore with the direction that Covenant went in?
I don't know anymore...I'm suspicious that we'll just get another visually stunning film, but nothing cohesive. I mean we got answers with Prometheus that the Engineers are not what we thought they were (still don't know why the wanted to wipe us out though) and we found out what David was up to in the Covenant film (some of it was nightmarish and scary, but not too scary), so how would anything that's happened in Prometheus and Covenant tie into a third film?
Alas, I'm grateful for Corporal Hicks and this blog as it sounds like some of you guys have better ideas than the studio executives, so at least I can come here and read all the thoughtful and creative ideas you guys have and it's not a total loss.
Yay to Ridley if he can pull off a third film, but where in the world is he going with the film? How in the world is it ever going to tie-in with the original Alien film and LV-426? Is he still planning to do this? He mentioned the xenomorph was cooked (something like the "beast is cooked"), so I thought he was moving in a new direction. Now is he saying he wants to go back to exploring the original xenomorph and alien? Seemed like Covenant was all about David, so will the third film not be about David and it's going to be back to the original xenomorph/alien? So what was the scene with the Deacon in Prometheus about again? Anymore exploration with the Deacon? What about all the new neomorphs with Covenant? Will there be any more development with these creatures? Is this the end of the black goo/accelerant (sp.)? Will we explore anything else with the accelerant?
Maybe I'm just suffering movie-goer fatigue and I've just given up with the whole thing. I feel like the journey with the first two films (Prometheus and Covenant) has left me uninspired because I found them to be so dis-jointed or disconnected (that's just me), so I'm not sure I'm interested in a third film anymore. But who knows...maybe we'll get something that's really interesting and cool?