New Concept Art Reveals What Engineer City Should Have Looked Like Alien Covenant

Engineer City We Never Got to See in Alien Covenant.

I wanna talk about the early versions of the Alien Covenant Script with more scenes about the Engineer city and their technology.
I’m pretty sure most of us were expecting to learn more about the Engineer culture in Alien Covenant, but unfortunately it did not happen. We only got a couple of minutes of action involving engineers and it turned out that these were not even the actual Engineers but another humanoid race.

I recently discovered storyboards from early version and new concept art that explain the original Engineer city that we did not have a chance to see in Alien Covenant. In fact, the creator of the xenomorph design Giger also designed the Engineer city that was supposed to appear in Alien Covenant as the Engineer homeworld. But Ridley Scott decided to not use Giger works and I’m gonna explain why. The script and artworks also have information about how Engineers produced and used electricity which is slightly different from technologies of Earth.

In the early draft of the script, the Covenant crew spent more time exploring the Engineer city after their visit to the Temple. David would show them the streets and Engineer technology that was somewhat advanced but different from what we have on Earth. Even in the movie, we see a lamp created on the Planet 4 that detects movements and produces light. As David says they were highly advanced in their own way, but at the same time limited in certain aspects which is evidenced by ancient looking type city.

The script specifies that the architecture of buildings is very Giger with twisted combination of bio mechanical elements just like we see in the design of Juggernauts in Prometheus and the original Alien movie. In Alien Covenant however, the city has a Roman like style and people are dressed in robes pretty much like pesants. There is an explanation on why they decided to go with the Roman architecture instead of traditional Giger Engineer design. I think Ridley Scott changed the style because original he thought that the Planet 4 would be the actualy Enginner homeworld with the same Engineer race that we saw in promethes. But then we changed his mind and decided that instead the Planet 4 would be another humanoid race created by Engineers. So I think for this reason, he put aside Giger's desings of the city to use them in Alien Awakening of another Alien movie when David would reach the true Engineer homeworld. If that’s true, we’ll probably se these designs on the big screen in the future.

It was also kinda weird that in the film nobody asked David about the city and the Engineers. Everybody just ignored that they just found another advanced humanoid civilization. The covenant expedition is sent 10 years after Prometheus,therefore no intelligent extraterrestrial life has been found so far. But nobody is surprised by what they see and they don’t express any interest which I think was not very realistic. One may argue that they were by what just happened to them but even in the Temple nobody asks David about the city and its inhabitants.

In the early draft however David is asked if Engineers had electricity, David says they did but for some reason the binary logic never occurred to them, therefore they did not have transistors which is a very basic element of every technology that we have today on Earth. It briefly stated in the script that they used solar panels to produce electricity but I think it would be pretty difficult because of the frequent storms and rain on the Planet.

There is also a sequence where David shows the Orrery and then the crew goes inside. It was supposed to be a similar scene to the one in Prometheus when David activated the 3d hologram of the star and planet, which eventualy zooms in to the Solar system. In the Orrery, there was also an aragment of stars and planets but in a physical form.

It was a huge dissapointment for many people that we did not get a chance to explore the Engineers and the city. I personaly wanted to find out where the Engineers came and what was their civilazation.

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