Xenomorphs and the aliens of Predator, a rival franchise.
However, it wasn’t until 2012 that Gladiator helmer Scott would return to the director’s chair for another Alien installment, adding some more complexity to the backstory of the series. When Scott came back to Alien, the director ended up making a prequel to the original movie in the form of 2012's critically divisive Prometheus. A more ambitious breed of Alien follow-up, Prometheus offered some interesting philosophical quandaries for viewers but lacked the visceral thrills of Scott’s original Alien as it became bogged down in backstory.
Although not as hated as the villainous android David that combined a human body with the Xenomorph’s iconically creepy appearance.
Originally, Rapace’s Prometheus heroine would have appeared in Alien: Covenant as the Neomorph Queen, the “successful” result of David’s Xenomorph-human crossbreeding. Concept art of the Prometheus character’s grim fate depicts an abomination with whitish-green skin, a human bottom half, an androgynous body with Xenomorph-style shoulder-spikes, elbow spikes, and webbed fingers. As if that weren’t enough torture, in these sketches Shaw’s head became a sightless, massive blob.
It’s a far more upsetting image of Xenomorph-human crossbreeding than the much-mocked Newborn Alien of Alien: Resurrection fame, and Alien: Covenant could have gained a truly horrifying scene from sharing this ambitiously gruesome monster with viewers. However, Shaw’s brutal offscreen death already felt a little pointless after Alien fans spent the entirety of Prometheus’ runtime rooting for her, and the subsequent death of Alien: Covenant’s entire cast means that the addition of the Neomorph Queen may have been a bit too much bleakness even for the gory Alien series to handle.
