Obviously no way to validate this as being true (and given the nature of it as a leak, I wouldn't be shocked to see it end up getting deleted one way or the other... so I've already saved it to keep it on hand
) but, just to play devil's advocate here and give it the time of day.... The idea of there being various 'alternative' Alien iterations concocted in a lab by humans experimenting with the 'Perfect Organism' (much like there were in
Resurrection, and like there would have been in Blomkamp's film) doesn't quite shock me here, given the nature of this series and the focus on various corporations manipulating tech that will surely be directly related to the Aliens. Now if this is a real concept, it could very well be from a stage in pre-production where they're just throwing ideas at the wall and seeing what sticks, and not actually representative of any of the designs that actually end up in the series.
Anyways, looking at this, it is absolutely intriguing. Fleshy, but also keeping the biomechanical elements of the original creature. A bit spindly, like
Covenant's iteration. I also get a bit of a sense of
Species' Sil, in the ribs and arms. Definitely feels like it could be some various offshoot of the proper Alien, with perhaps too much human DNA mixed in with the Alien's.
The lips almost remind me a bit of:
