I'm planning to get it (not the cooler steelbook version, so I'm only kinda planning to get it? - yeah, I'm a cheap skate, sue me), along with AVP: Collector's Boxset, The Predator and Alien: 6 Film Collection to do a 12 film blu-ray marathon, with a couple shorts, video game "movies" and comics thrown in for something new that I haven't seen before. The novels are numerous, theres 11 canonical novels I believe, and I'll probably read them at some point.
Notes:
Prometheus has a mural with the Xenomorph XX121 creature on it, along with traditional face huggers and the queen. This means they existed prior to the film, and Alien: Covenant doesn't retcon AVP as much as Scott may have intended to. Theres enough riggle room for both Charles Bishop Weyland and Peter Weyland, especially based on the Weyland Yutani files that hints at it in the 2004 section when Peter Weyland develops a cure for the illness killing Charles Bishop Weyland in October 14th, a few days after his death. They're probably close relatives, cousins or Uncle/Nephew. The Weyland Corporation probably plummeted after 2004 so Peter Weyland named his company Weyland Industries in honor of his lost family. That, or he was to be given the company when he was of age and renamed it Weyland Industries when he was 22. The comic Prometheus: Fire and Stone and it's sequel confirm that Prometheus and Alien vs. Predator exist in the same universe.
I agree with you probot
Fan headcanon is not canon, so its no point is using such speculations. As it stands, Aliens are recent creations so they can't exist prior to Alien Covenant. Predator along with AVP is its own universe at the moment. Its no good saying Prometheus had this and that or mentioning Fire and Stone because recent material has contradicted it and the rule of thumb is that new information, especially from a movie takes precedent. Scott doesn't care about overriding the EU or even his own past movies. I can assure you not all fans are happy with what he did in covenant.
Also if you want to post about this stuff, make a thread for it because this is not the topic at hand.
Yeah, except David most likely didn't create the Xenomorphs based on the films themselves, but ok, sure, Ridley Scott said it, true. He also said that the Protomorph is essentially invincible, making the classic creature redundant, and implies Blade Runner is in the same universe as Alien. I personally wouldn't take him at his word till the final prequel definitively answers this. I bet that even then it will be vague enough to be AvP canon.
Also:
Prometheus 2 ?
Alien: Covenant.
Scott does say odd things but since he is the director, he has more say than any fan would, so until a sequel comes along retconning covenant, David created the alien and there was no such thing as aliens before that point. Now get back on topic. Further replies that are nothing to do with the poster's question will be deleted.
What do you think?