So I just saw the movie on Friday, and went into it knowing the whole David created the Alien fiasco, but honestly I didn't really get that from watching the movie. I got that he made the batch that were actually in the film, but not that he created the entire species by himself. And now you're saying that the book says he just recreated the xenomorph from Engineer files?
Seems like this entire fiasco was being based on the fact that Scott made some offhand comment about David being their creator in some BTS video. I'm gonna stick with the film and the book over the director saying something, especially when said director changes his mind about stuff almost as much as George Lucas.
ps I loved the film, and so did my kids. It was especially fun for me because my 12 year old loves everything Aliens and Predator and this was his first Alien movie in the theatres. So a good time was had by all. 😊