


Fassbender, who was director Ridley Scott's first choice for the role, helped fashion the character to share traits with T.

After Peter Weyland is killed, David is freed from servitude, allowing him to conduct experiments to engineer his own variants of the Alien creature.ĭavid was conceptualized as a character to provide a non-human perspective for the theme of meeting one's creators in Prometheus, with him representing the next generation in a line of creators who finds himself disillusioned by his predecessors. While he assists his human companions in their interstellar expedition to meet their creators, the extraterrestrial Engineers, David is obsessed with the concept of creating life of his own. Introduced in the first prequel film, Prometheus (2012), David is an android serving as a butler, maintenance man and surrogate son to his creator, Peter Weyland, the founder of the Weyland Corporation. And the slightly faster, noisier way that Scott handles the alien attacks - they're not as spooky as they were in the original - is easily forgiven after scenes between David and Walter arguing over the meaning of existence.David 8, commonly known as David, is a fictional character featured in the Alien franchise, portrayed by Michael Fassbender.

He creates powerful, striking imagery right out of myth, from a doomed necropolis filled with blackened, statue-like bodies to David's years-old laboratory cave, filled with creepy specimens and papers flapping quietly in the chilling draft. It has an unexpected wake-up call, an investigation, and the discovery of the horrid monster.īut even as Covenant moves into territory already covered by Scott's other sci-fi movies, it proves that Scott knows what he's doing here. Predator movies - the eighth in the Alien franchise, starts quite similarly to the original 1979 film. Alien: Covenant, which is - counting the two Alien vs. While the story offers little new - it seems patched together from Alien, Prometheus, and even Blade Runner - director Ridley Scott's moody, thoughtful style makes this sequel worth seeing.
