It moves its central mass forward, flowering open to reveal a toothed maw surrounded by what look like eyes. The eyes turn out to be slender tentacles which it shoots forward and wraps around the Engineer's head, holding it in place so that the proboscis inside the maw can ram into the Engineer's mouth to begin impregnation. Shaw returns to the Engineer's ship after David tells her of second vessel they can use to leave LV Together they activate the other ship which is last seen powering away from the planet.
Back aboard the lifeboat, the corpse of the Engineer twitches before its chest bursts open, spilling a newly born Deacon onto the floor, which stands to release its birthing cry. The fossilized corpse of an Engineer in The Derelict.
The Book of Alien notes that the actors and crew felt instinctively that the Space Jockey was a benign creature, though they could not say why. In the novelisation of Alien by Alan Dean Foster, Ash describes the Space Jockey's race as a noble people and hopes that mankind will encounter them under more pleasant circumstances. It also states that they were larger, stronger and possibly more intelligent than humans. The first Space Jockey was seen in the original Alien movie as a giant humanoid corpse sitting in front of a telescope-like device aboard the derelict craft.
It had been there for an extremely long time, long enough for the corpse to become fossilized. The Jockey that the starship Nostromo' s crew found aboard the derelict seemed to be growing out of the chair of the telescope, as if it had fused itself into it. Its rib cage was bent outward; it is evident that a Xenomorph escaped from the creature, though no adult Xenomorphs were encountered on the derelict.
It is mostly likely any adult xenomorph would have been dead by the time the derelict was discovered due to the lack of food sources although the Xenomorph eggs, we learned, can survive for at least 57 years as was Ripley's long hypersleep and the facehuggers inside are probably in some kind of stasis until contact. In the comics, the Jockey is shown to have an elephantine trunk.
This is inconsistent with the original concept. An inspection of the concept art done by H. Giger, shows that the "trunk" is supposed to be an air hose and there is a helmet surrounding the Jockey's head. This is also supported by the fact that soft tissue such as elephant trunks do not fossilize. This does not leave out the possibility of a different kind of trunk, but the one depicted in the comics is very much like an elephant's.
None of the works depicting the Jockey with a "trunk" are considered canon - the only canon appearance of the Space Jockey is in Alien and its novelisation and directly related works. In an early script visualized but never written, the Pilot ship had crashed or landed on LV some 10 million years prior to being discovered by the Nostromo.
It was depicted as having been dragged in some unknown manner to the top of a pyramidal structure, which was the top of an enormous subterranean temple containing the Xenomorph eggs. This is evident in the finished Alien film, when Kane notices the hole torn in the bottom of the Pilot ship.
It should also be noted that despite later rewrites and storylines, Giger and O'Bannon designed the Pilot so that it appeared to be a sympathetic and friendly lifeform. However Ridley Scott also said the creature was a suit rather than a biomechanical lifeform. It's "Trunk" was actually an air hose for breathing.
In the movie Prometheus , it turns out the creature in the chair was actually in a flight suit. The creature's uniform has retractable sleeves and helmet to presumably filter out the environment for it. When the black liquid attacked them, they all seemed to wear the suits to protect themselves. Their true form is almost similar to humans except that they do not grow hair, they are a pale white, their eyes are almost completely black, they are taller, they are smarter, and they have increased strength.
Though not much is known about the Engineers, it is shown that the Engineers have displayed advanced forms of culture that exist within their society, such as language, visual arts, music and clothing. The next day, the crew returns to the structure and find Millburn's corpse while David discovers a room containing a surviving Engineer held in stasis and a 3D star map highlighting Earth. Holloway's infection rapidly ravages his body, and he is rushed back to the Prometheus, but Vickers refuses to let him on board and at his own request, burns him with a flamethrower.
Later, Shaw begins to feel physical discomfort in her abdomen, and a medical scan reveals that, despite being sterile, she is somehow pregnant. She quickly discovers the offspring is alien in origin, and uses an automated surgery table to remove it from her body.
Staggering through the ship after the surgery, Shaw discovers Weyland is on board the Prometheus, and he explains that he intends to ask the Engineers to prevent his impending death from old age.
Meanwhile, now monstrous and mutated, Fifield attacks the hangar bay and kills several crew members before he is incinerated by a flamethrower and crushed to death by an RT Series Group Transport. The Prometheus' captain, Janek wonders that the structure they have found was part of an Engineer military base that lost control of its biological weapon, the mutagenic black liquid. Weyland and a team return to the structure accompanied by Shaw where they awaken the surviving Engineer.
David attempts to communicate to the Engineer in order to explain what Weyland wants. Somehow, the Engineer responds by decapitating David before killing Weyland and his team. Shaw escapes, but the Engineer activates his spaceship. The still-active David communicates with Shaw and reveals that the Engineer is going to release the black liquid mutagen on Earth, so she convinces Janek to stop the Engineer spaceship, which he does by crashing the Prometheus into it after sacrificing himself along with the remaining crew.
Vickers escapes the ship by ejecting in an escape pod, only for the disabled Engineer spaceship to come crashing back down to the planet and Vickers is crushed to death by the wreckage. Shaw makes it onto Vickers' lifeboat and finds the alien offspring she had removed earlier, now fully grown into an enormous Trilobite and is trapped inside the medical bay.
David reveals to her that the Engineer has survived the crash of the ship and moments later, it forces open the lifeboat's airlock and attacks Shaw. However, she unleashes the Trilobite upon it and flees. After a titanic struggle, the Engineer is subdued by the Trilobite, which impregnates it. Shaw recovers David's remains from inside the wrecked Engineer ship and with his help, the pair launch in another similar craft, heading for the Engineers' home world, hoping to discover why they attempted to destroy humanity.
Meanwhile, inside the Prometheus lifeboat, a Deacon erupts from the Engineer's chest. Development on a fifth film in the Alien franchise was in progress by At the time, Scott was considering returning to the series he created with his science fiction horror film Alien, to pursue a sequel that would explore the engineered origins of the series' Alien antagonists, and the "space jockey"—the extraterrestrial being, who briefly appears in Alien, as the deceased pilot of a derelict spaceship.
Alien star Sigourney Weaver also expressed interest in returning to the series. Aliens director James Cameron discussed the potential for a sequel with Scott, and began working with another writer on a story for the film.
It was then that 20th Century Fox approached Cameron with a script for a crossover film that would pit the series' monsters against the titular characters of the Predator films; what would become the science fiction film Alien vs.
After Fox confirmed that it would pursue the crossover, Cameron stopped working on his own project, believing the crossover would "kill the validity of the franchise".
In , Cameron confirmed that he would not return to the project, believing that the series was Fox's asset, and he was unwilling to deal with the studio attempting to influence the potential sequel. In May , Fox first reported the project as a "reboot" to the Alien franchise, which was soon afterwards expressed as a then untitled prequel to Alien.
Development stalled in June , when Fox clashed with Scott over his selection of former commercial director Carl Erik Rinsch as director. Fox was only interested in pursuing the project if Scott directed. By July , Scott was attached to direct the film, and screenwriter Jon Spaihts was hired to pen the script based on his pitched idea for a direct Alien prequel.
With both director and writer in place, and pleased with Spaihts' pitch, Fox scheduled a release date for December , but this was eventually dropped.
In June , Scott announced that the script was complete and that pre-production would begin, with a filming date set for January However, by July , Lindelof had been hired to redevelop Spaihts's screenplay into a more original work.
In October , Lindelof submitted his refined screenplay to Fox. In December , it was reported that the film would be called Paradise, named after the John Milton poem Paradise Lost, but Scott considered that it would convey too much about the film.
A release date was scheduled for March 9, , but weeks later the date was pushed back to June 8, With the name confirmed, the production began to publicly distance the film from its Alien origins.
The filmmakers were deliberately vague about the connection between the films, believing it would build audience anticipation for Prometheus. Scott stated that "while Alien was indeed the jumping-off point for this project, out of the creative process evolved a new, grand mythology and universe in which this original story takes place. The keen fan will recognize strands of Alien's DNA, so to speak, but the ideas tackled in this film are unique, large and provocative.
We're exploring the future Space exploration in the future is going to evolve into this idea that it's not just about going out there and finding planets to build colonies. It also has this inherent idea that the further we go out, the more we learn about ourselves. The characters in this movie are preoccupied by the idea: what are our origins? Spaihts met Scott in late , where they discussed Scott's desire to pursue an Alien prequel.
Spaihts offered his concept, including a "bridge" that would connect the film's "human story" to the Alien saga. He was quickly hired, which he credited to the reception of his "bridge" idea.
Spaihts claimed his concept was created in the moment, and he had no ideas planned in advance. Spaihts set about writing a page "extremely detailed outline", and within three and a half weeks his first draft was complete, and submitted to the producers on Christmas Day, Within 12 hours, Scott returned the script with notes for changes, and Spaihts spent the Christmas holiday redrafting.
Spaihts was tasked with exploring unresolved mysteries from Alien such as the Space Jockey. He saw the driving mysteries of Alien as "alien in nature", stating "all the mysteries have alien players: the exoskeleton nightmare and How do you make anyone care about events between creatures like this?
He explained: "if that story is somehow ours, and deeply enmeshed with the human story. That story changes meaning within our own life, things of such significance that we think of our own lives differently". He found translating Scott's stylistic visual concepts to text difficult, and he periodically had to rein in some of the director's ideas such as reminding Scott that in the scene they were discussing, the characters were subject to gravity and so could not simply float.
Scott described the script, saying "we are talking about gods and engineers. Engineers of space. And were the aliens designed as a form of biological warfare? Or biology that would go in and clean up a planet? However, Scott instead contacted Lindelof and requested that he review Spaihts' script. Within the hour, a messenger delivered the script to Lindelof and informed the writer that he would be waiting outside to take it back as soon as Lindelof had finished reading it.
Unaware of what the producers liked about the existing script, Lindelof informed Scott and the producers that he found the general concept appealing, but that the story relied too heavily on elements of the Alien films, such as the general concept of the Alien creatures life-cycle.
As a direct prequel to Alien, it was focused on leading into that film's story, and recreating the familiar cues of that series, and Scott was adamant that he avoid repeating previous accomplishments.
Lindelof clarified, "If the ending to [Prometheus] is just going to be the room that John Hurt walks into that's full of [alien] eggs [in Alien], there's nothing interesting in that, because we know where it's going to end. Good stories, you don't know where they're going to end.
Lindelof suggested that the other parts of the script were strong enough to survive without the Alien hallmarks, such as the Alien creature which he believed had been "diluted" by the exposure it had received since, and the burden of "all the tropes of that franchise with Facehuggers and Chestbursters".
He offered that the film could instead run parallel to those films, such that a sequel would be Prometheus 2 and not Alien, and submitted an idea for how such a sequel could work. He met with the producers the following morning, and was hired shortly afterwards in late Under Lindelof, the script began to divert from Spaihts' Alien prequel into a more original creation.
Scott and Lindelof worked together five days a week between July and August , trying to piece together exactly what vision Scott was trying to convey and how the script needed to change, including scaling back the Alien symbology and tropes.
Beginning in August, Lindelof spent four to five weeks writing his first draft before submitting it mid-September Inspired by Blade Runner and Spaihts' script, Lindelof thought that it would be possible to combine an Alien story of action and horror with "the Blade Runner thematic", to ask bigger questions that he felt were normally posed in science fiction films.
Shaw then inadvertently runs into David, who is tending to a recently unfrozen Peter Weyland - who reveals the true nature of the expedition: with only days left to live the billionaire literally wants to meet his makers and hopes for some way to avert death from old age. However, when the team heads to The Engineer ship and awakens the survivor, he refuses to play into their desires for answers, quickly dispatching nearly everyone in the party, and resumes his prior mission directive to pilot the weaponized ship to Earth - in an effort to eradicate The Engineers' human creation.
Why The Engineers would choose to create and then destroy humanity is never fully revealed - although it can be intuited, when compared to a line that David delivers - "Who doesn't want to kill their father? Faced with the threat of planetary annihilation, the Prometheus flight crew pilots the ship into the escaping Engineer ship - sending it crashing to the ground - sparing only Shaw and David. With the threat neutralized, Shaw attempts to pilot the ship's lifeboat but is horrified to discover that her fetus has grown into a person-sized beast.
Just as she retreats, the surviving Engineer arrives in an attempt to finish-off Shaw and is snatched by the mutated creature's tentacles. As Shaw runs off, the creature forces one of its tentacles down the Engineer's throat and wraps its body around his struggling body - before the alien pair collapse and fall silent.
In a pre -credits scene, the lifeless body of The Engineer is shown flailing around - as an adolescent alien queen-like life form erupts from his chest, splitting his body in two. It's a set up that is further clarified when David tells Shaw that they can still escape the planet, since the Engineer's crashed ship is only one of many, meaning that the Queen's progeny could have easily encountered other surviving Engineers who were still preserved inside their ships on the moon - or might have come into contact with Engineers who later visited LV to investigate the Prometheus event or collect more of the weaponized mutagen.
One of these unfortunate travelers could then become the Alien "Space Jockey" - who dies in his pilot chair and crashes on LV after a xenomorph bursts from his chest and presumably lays the facehugger eggs that Executive Officer Kane John Hurt encounters in Alien.
Why would anybody even try to control these things? And, wait, what did that ending mean exactly? The latest film, Alien: Covenant , continues the tradition.
Why was Walter Michael Fassbender onboard the colonist ship Covenant? Is this a Weyland-sponsored mission or has Walter become the iMac of droids in this timeline? A random, cataclysmic event that halts a space ship right next to the planet David also Michael Fassbender is living on is believable enough.
Maybe the alien civilization that lived there before had cloaked it somehow. But this series of unfortunate coincidences is never really explained. Click it or ticket, space explorers.
Franco plays the rightful captain of the Covenant. He also dies horribly within the first several minutes of the film. His only real lines are delivered in a video message that looks like leftover Hours footage. This has to be in the space colonist manual for exploring planets: Never, ever take off your helmet on a new planet—at least not until the biologist on board has taken some soil and air samples.
Who knows what kind of pathogen could be floating around?
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