The new Alien prequel series will completely disregard the franchise timeline started by Prometheus.
In 2012, Ridley Scott returned to the Alien franchise with Prometheus, which focused on what eventually proved to be the birth of the Xenomorph creature.
It is only towards the end of the movie that we see the Alien in the state which we all recognise, and it is suggested that it was born out of the development of a biological weapon by creatures known as Engineers.
The future of the Alien series involves a new movie, Romulus, as well as a television show which is being developed by Noah Hawley, who has confirmed that the plot of Prometheus doesn't impact his story.
"Ridley and I have talked about this – and many, many elements of the show," Hawley told The Hollywood Reporter.
"For me, and for a lot of people, this 'perfect life form' – as it was described in the first film – is the product of millions of years of evolution that created this creature that may have existed for a million years out there in space. The idea that, on some level, it was a bioweapon created half an hour ago, that's just inherently less useful to me."
Alien series to go retro
Interestingly, the two Alien prequels, Prometheus and Covenant, featured more advanced technology and had a slicker look than Alien and Aliens.
Hawley is planning to go retro with the Alien series.
"And in terms of the mythology, what's scary about this monster, is that when you look at those first two movies, you have this retro-futuristic technology," the Fargo showrunner continued.
!You have giant computer monitors, these weird keyboards … You have to make a choice. Am I doing that? Because in the prequels, Ridley made the technology thousands of years more advanced than the technology of Alien, which is supposed to take place in those movies' future. There's something about that that doesn't really compute for me. I prefer the retro-futurism of the first two films. And so that's the choice I've made — there's no holograms. The convenience of that beautiful Apple store technology is not available to me."
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