What would you like to see in a new alien movie?

Indeed they are in a Dilemma with Daniels if they pursue a Sequel to Alien Covenant, that will follow on from the events of the previous movie and depict to us what becomes of Daniels and the Covenant Mission/Colonist.

The Problem is Daniels knows who David is, so David would not want her to be able to inform the other Colonist of who he is and WHAT happened on Planet 4 unless David will just be awakening Colonist One/Few at a Time.

so Daniels is a thorn to Davids plans, but by getting rid of Daniels, it could raise some Questions for Tennessee who may get a bit suspicious.. so ideally you would think David would be better off to GET-RID of them both. 

Here lies the Problem, especially if they are killed Off-Screen or Early on....  with the Disappointment of Alien Covenant, who ever takes over the Duty to make a sequel would maybe consider a TWO movie sequel to Reach ALIEN as being a bit of a risk and so we would have to maybe see a SINGLE movie that links to Alien...  this means any Characters we get introduced to, we may not connect to as much as they would be required for ONE movie where the Purpose is just to drive the Plot from Alien Covenant to those Eggs on the Crashed Derelict in ALIEN.

IF they do permit/plan TWO sequels then you could get rid of Daniels/Tennessee and introduce NEW Characters as long as some of them Survive until the Final Chapter of the Prequel Franchise... but its if FOX/Disney would make a movie that requires TWO movies to take us to  Z from where ever we are now in the A-Z Order of the Prequels Destination that looks likely to be the Space Jockey Event.

So maybe having a Sequel that would deal with Daniels in a Philological Thriller way, showing the Games David would play with Daniels... could be something that could WORK?

However is this the kind of Alien Prequel a lot of Fans would want to see? But if done right you could Hit Home a Sense of Terror via what ever Games/Torture that David would be putting Daniels through... It depends on the Psychological Aspects of David... a part of him does seem like he is ONE who would take pleasure in holding her Hostage and Mentally/Physically Torture her...  I would also think by VIRTUE of this would be a Hubris for David because the potential SHE could be Discovered/Released and then give away WHO he is and his plans... where as to just deal with her as Soon as Possible... would be the Best Way for David to Act.... as far as to get his Plans/Agenda completed.... but the Deranged Human Emotional State that he has would be his Hubris, as he takes pleasure in keeping Daniels Alive.....

This is somewhat similar to how i was going to deal with Daniels/David in my AC Sequel Alien: Ascension.

David "Mother, Where is colonist 217? He is not in his assigned Hypersleep chamber"

MUTHUR "Hypersleep chamber 217 is currently occupied"

David "Not to argue with you, but Hypersleep chamber 217 is most assuredly empty"

Davids scans the ship for life forms and finds a human, then locates him on the monitor. The human is leaning against the bulkhead smoking a cigarette.

Taken a back, he ventures to meet passenger 217....

David finds the human. The man is on his second cigarette.

David  "What are you doing?"

Man "Oh! hi Walter!...Just taking a smoke break..."

David "That is not allowed and ....how did you release yourself?"

Man "If you have enough money, you can get anything your little heart desires, you should try it sometime"

David "You need to return to your chamber immediately"

Man "Nah, Gonna finish this pack then do some exploring.."

Weyland "Careful son, something is not right..."

David approaches the man. The man blows smoke at David. David is about to grasp him. When suddenly David loses consciousness. He falls stiffly to the floor.

Man "Sorry Walter...You made me do it...."

Ooh this is interesting. Reminded me of David blowing into the Neomorph's face. So there seems to be something in the cigarette that interferes with David's electronics.

You're not going to tease an entire story one post at a time, are you? That would be very....David.

He must have used a remote control he bought from some insider from Weyland-Yutani, the same he used to get out of the pod. He said it himself earlier:

Man "If you have enough money, you can get anything your little heart desires, you should try it sometime"

Please continue the story MonsterZero

David regains consciousness . He is unable to move his lower body. He can see and hear colonist 217 and another man.

217 “Back on line I see”

David “...Who are you and why am I subdued”

217 “Who I am is unimportant…..David”

David “You are confused, my name is Walter”

The man smiles. He approaches David and extinguishes his cigarette against David's cheek.

217 “I read your codes...Your name is David Weyland ..born Planitia shipyards Mars…”

David “May I ask how you…?”

217 “My little gadget? Neat piece of work. Yutani tech...best thing I ever stole.”

David “ahh...A thief”

He stares at David for a long uncomfortable silence….and finally speaks

217 “I’ll let that go for now. I might need you….. and by the way, I’m asking the questions”

The second man is busy working..but turns around long enough to speak.

2nd man “Ask him”

217 “How you’re aboard this ship i’ll save for later...Right now I want to know the location of  Walter”

David “Walter is not aboard the ship”

217 “I can goddamned see that!”

David “....He is on another planet...some distance from here.”

2nd man “That’s not good”

217 “Shut the hell up….”

The man uses the ‘gadget’ to switch David off.

2nd man “What are we going to do? Walter’s got all the data…”

217 “Yeah..I know...tough situation….”

Some 2 hours later....

217 “Welcome back…”

David is laying on a table. He has full movement of his body.

217 “We’ve decided to let you help us”

David “...Why..do I..”

217 “Feel so weak?...So under-powered? Well, we got you set at 5%...That’s all the power we’re gonna give you”

David struggles to sit up.

217 “You see…..Your old man never trusted any of you tin men....built in a lot of safeguards”

David achieved a sitting posture.

217 “You didn’t actually think you had control did ya?!..They were going to Just let you take over?”

David looked defeated. 217 Stared at him for a long moment.

217 “Yeah...I guess you did...Walter had the same notion….”

David “..Why should I help you?”

217 “Because I’ve neural netted 20 of your colony buddies...One thought from me and they burn up...Poof! One at a time of course...And if I die...They all die...comprende?”

David “Yes, perfectly, I would not want their deaths on my hands. I will do as you command”

217 “Now we’re getting somewhere…”

David “What do you desire”

217 “Well firstly, we’ll need the location of the planet you left poor ole’ Walter on”, “For some strange reason the ships logs have been wiped...You wouldn’t know anything about that would ya?”

David doesn’t respond

217 “Thought so”

David “May I inquire why you are in need of my brother? …..Maybe I can help…. in his absence?”

Long silence as colonist 217 mulls it over.

217 “Little harm in telling you….Your ‘brother’ has a special talent, bought and paid for...Hypersleep ghosting...He gets the cypher codes, bank numbers, naughty memories and all sorts of good stuff, rips ‘em from your sleeping folks minds”,   ”You’d be surprised what little old ladies and rich gents pay for such stuff”

David “I see…”

Weyland “No son...let him finish…”

217 “We’ve probed about half the colony…..about 6 months worth of data is with Walter...all encrypted….See, I don’t trust my own mother with such jank….But I do trust Walter”

David “And when you reach Origae six?”

217 “Not going to orange guy six...We’ll be long gone by then…” , “Enough questions......Now, Mr. David tell us just how you came to be aboard this vessel?”

David “My father and I joined an expedition to find alien life. We ventured on a hostile alien world, where my father perished…”

217 “What a minute..hold on there...you telling me your daddy died on some planet other than Mars?!” , “Mother bring up the holo of Peter Weyland, of Weyland corp fame, his official wake and funeral”

A 3D representation displays a lavish, stately production. It shows Meredith Vickers, David and upper Weyland management grieving over the body of Peter Weyland.

Weyland “This is my doing David. The company and I agreed this was the best solution if I didn’t survive the expedition”

217 “That’s enough…” The holo stops playing,  “So this was all staged and your papa actually died seeking little green men?!” , ”This is big…”

David could see the dollar signs in his eyes.

I guess David is going to lead them back to planet 4 and make them peep into the dormant eggs still waiting for Mother.

Or not?

daliens, yeah kind of planning it that way....but there's a couple of planets where they might really find some stuff!

2nd man enters the room. He is heavily armed, then proceeds to hand a weapon to 217, who immediately trains it on David.

2nd “We’ve got more problems..”

217 “Now what..”

2nd “Just been to the hangar, the drop ship is missing and the deck looks like it’s gone through explosive decompression….it’s a mess”

217  “Just what the hell have you been up to mister David?” ,  “ Do a ships wide search…check the crew deck first”

David glances at the weapon

217 “I know what your computing...and yes, the safety protocols are off...Guns no good unless it spits”

David “Will you wake the captain?”

217 “Not waking anybody…..This was supposed to be seamless…..” , “So...where is the drop ship?”

David offers no answer.

217 “No need to tell me...on Walter’s planet….”

2nd man calls into the ear of 217.

2nd man “I’m on the crew deck” , ”you might want to get up here…”

217 “On our way”

David “And what if I..”

217 turns David off in mid sentence. Showing incredible strength, he picks David up with one arm and carries him to the crew deck.

217 enters the crew deck and drops David. 2nd is standing near a hypersleep chamber.

217 “What’s up?”

2nd “Can’t find captain Branson”,”looks like most of the crew is missing...just these two”  pointing at Daniels and Tennessee.

217 “My, my...just what have we been up to..” looking at David,  “...Continue searching, I’ll wake one of the crew...”

2nd  “Wake the woman..she’s pretty! Been awhile since I had a warm one... ”

217 “...Well... that decides it” , “I’m waking beardie”

2nd man... disappointed...continues his search.

217 wakes Tennessee. He is groggy and vomits. Finally composing himself…

Tennessee “..What is this..”, “Who are you…?” ,Tennessee notices David laying crumpled on the deck,  “What have you done to Walter?”

217 “My turn” , “Perhaps you tell me what happened to captain Branson?”, he menaces Tennessee with the pulse rifle

Tennessee still dazed,  “Whoa...what..weapons don’t work on..”

217 “Well, this one does…”

Tennessee sizes him....big muscular...crew cut...wearing a nameless hypersleep outfit.

Tennessee “You’re a colonist? How..who.. ?”

217 “Goddammit,  you tell me what happened here, or I’ll shoot you and wake the other”

Tennessee glances at Daniel’s unopened chamber

 “Okay..okay..let me think a bit...little hazy at the moment..” ,  ”..uh..Had a storm of some kind...killed the captain, some colonists..umm..got a message..signal...from a planet” ,  “Can I have some water...kinda dry” 217 stares at him “Uhh guess that’s a no”

Tennessee “Look if I tell you this, you’ll get back to your chamber?”

217 “Yes...now continue…”

Suddenly the 2nd man shouts in his earpiece..

2nd “Jackpot! Holy shit” , “We’re rich!”

217 “What’s that? Where..”

2nd “Colony embryo chamber…...you gotta see this”

217 motions for Tennessee to lead the way…

Tennessee enters the embryo room with 217 in tow. He sizes up the 2nd man. A bit smaller, but not by much. Just as sinister and also holding a pulse rifle.

217 “Take him”  2nd gathers Tennessee,  then motions towards the embryo locker. One of the trays is extended.

2nd smiling “Examine it..notice anything?”

217 is speechless. He finds the alien embryo. Knows this is worth more than anything they could ‘ghost’ from the colony.

217 showing Tennessee the embryo  “What is this...Where did it come from?!”

Tennessee truthfully declares “Never….never seen that before..must have..” he realizes someone brought that aboard the Covenant…Lope?

217 “Must have what?”

Tennessee “You need to wake Walter...he..he can explain..”

217 “If you don’t tell me...I’m gonna put you in an airlock and play depressurization games…”

Tennessee realizes the colonists are going to find out most of this story when they reach Origae anyway, so....

Tennessee “That signal...I told you about? Came from a system nearby ...captain Oram decided to follow it...We..” Tennessee thinks about his wife..”..visited the planet..the fourth one….using the drop ship...I really don’t..I wasn’t..I stayed on the Covenant….Walter was there...He was on the surface..Dan…” Tennessee decides not to involve Daniels

So they knew the potential of the facehugger embryos. And they had an insider at Weyland Co. who sold them the remote. That sounds like a conspiracy. 

DK:

You probably mean this one:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0183649/

Correct me if I am wrong. I have seen it too but that was years ago, still I remember it being effective. About the phone booth comment.

The guy that was taken away at the end of Alien 3, his name was Morse.

Daliens:

“I guess David is going to lead them back to planet 4 and make them peep into the dormant eggs still waiting for Mother. “

I fucking hope not

“It is perfectly safe I assure you”

Yeah right

Big Dave:

About Tennessee and Daniels, I never understood what their personalities were like (jokers, serious, independent, emotional, rational, and so on). I understood this with Ripley, Hicks, and Clemens let’s say but I never got any idea about most of the characters in AC except for maybe David, Walter and Oram the rest were blank slates and therefore forgettable.

A youtuber (can't remember the name) that I watched a video from said that they had no personalities, I think that he was right.

daliens,

My idea is to take them to LV426/LV223.

Alien spaceships trump alien embryos.

Aboard the derelict on LV426, David and Walter playback (holo viewer style, like the tomb sequence in Prometheus, think Engineers running from something) the events of the juggernaut and what happened to the pilot(Space Jockey).

"I'd start the next movie with Daniels in the shower."

MonsterZero, you're my hero. I'll have to circle back to comment more on your excellent opening and the character hygiene development.

I'd like to see some of the events in Alien: Covenant Origins novel in the next film Thoughts_Dreams. This would show Earth in early 2104 and give depth to the Covenant crew short Walter. Walter has just sentences that mention him in the novel. In addition to this, I wish to see how the Engineers review what happened on LV-223 and Planet 4 and then what they do.

It would be great to see what happens with Walter and if the Covenant ship lands on Planet 4.