origin of wayland name

That sounds cool but I'm sure this has been discussed before. Weylan-Yutani was the original name of the Weyland-Yutani corporation in Alien. The name "Weylan-Yutani" was created by Ron Cobb, one of the designers of the Nostromo and its crew's uniforms. "One of the things I enjoyed most about Alien was its subtle satirical content. Science fiction films offer golden opportunities to throw in little scraps of information that suggest enormous changes in the world. There's a certain potency in those kinds of remarks. Weylan Yutani for instance is almost a joke, but not quite. I wanted to imply that poor old England is back on its feet and has united with the Japanese, who have taken over the building of spaceships the same way they have now with cars and supertankers. In coming up with a strange company name I thought of British Leyland and Toyota, but we couldn't use "Leyland-Toyota" in the film. Changing one letter gave me "Weylan," and "Yutani" was a Japanese neighbor of mine. ” —Ron Cobb, "The Authorized Portfolio of Crew Insignias from The United States Commercial Spaceship Nostromo Designs and Realizations" by John Mollo and Ron Cobb The original spelling of the Company's name was Weylan Yutani (note that there was no D in the name). At no time in Alien nor in the portfolio was the name of the Company spelled with a D. This was changed to "Weyland-Yutani" in Aliens.

Good Spot and a suptile change like that, does not mean the Aliens Story is not connected to Alien. You here some who have problems or dont get why the Space Jockey in this movie looks a bit different to Alien. Well to fit in with the new Story behind Prometheus they went for a Humaniod in Space Suit, that gets fused to the Chair and becomes part of it, instead of what the original Space Jockey looked like which was more a Giant Elephant type Creature that became a Fossil. And thus same as Welan was changed to Weyland to fit another part of the Story.