Hypothesis: Weyland as Villain

Every king has his reign and then he dies. Its inevitable.

Can we STOP calling the Alien Xenos now? Please?!? How about just calling it THE ALIEN like Dan O'Bannon did??? Sorry it just irks me a little. Why James Cameron had to NAME them is beyond me, and the fact that he lowered them to the level of intergalactic ants shits me. Scary. Fucking. Alien. Works for me :-P Sorry I didn't mean to hijack, I've had a real long day..........

Spoilers obviously.... My take on the Weyland plot is that he is kept in stasis during the mission waiting for communion with humanity's maker in the hopes of extending his life or stealing the immortal power of the Gods, "Engineers". The only thing that does not fit with that idea is, the automatic assumption the so called invitation would lead to any elixir of life or power. Or why Weyland would not just wait out the mission results safely on Earth. Maybe he's just ambitious as hell, and would rather risk life and limb to participate in the discovery? And I would imagine he has already extended his life to some degree with cybernetic bits, so at least he is more or less mobile and capable for the mission. So perhaps he is tricked in his hubris, trying to take more from the Engineers than was given and is then horribly mutated into a monster. It would be kind of fitting to see Weyland himself become quite literally the face of the evil Company.

What if Vickers is really Wayland in a new body.

Yes, Weyland seems way too invested in Prometheus to stay home. Also, David is way too philosophical to be just a robot, so maybe he gets transformed or is not a robot in the first place. My only question now is if anybody survives the trip at all, it doesn't look like it. Maybe Shaw activates a transponder warning at the end, before she dies, which is what they detect in Alien.

I'm still thinking that it is Weyland who opens "Pandora's Box", and that no one survives his mischief.