AvP and Covenant Timeline conflict?
In Alien vs Predator it is revealed, that the aliens are an ancient race that for at least hundreds or thousands of years are the greatest prey for the great predators. Alien vs Predator is set in the late end of the millennium.
Now with the new plot from Alien:Covenant, the alien race is merely demystified to just a science project by some synthetic dude, made up of a weaponized genetic mixture.
Is AvP just a setting outside of the canon of the alien universe? Why is it, that the race has been demystified in any case?
Best Answer
AvP is not canon.
From here:
the promotional website Weyland Industries retconned the AvP movies from the canon by having Peter Weyland (Guy Pearce, pictured below) as the founder of Weyland Corp, as opposed to having AVP's Charles Bishop Weyland (Lance Henriksen) as the founder of Weyland Industries.
Ridley Scott also doesn't consider AvP a part of the Alien franchise.
Bringing Scott back to the franchise he launched all those years ago, Fox did not find a cheerleader for Alien vs Predator.
Damon Lindelof – one of Prometheus's writers – tells a story about raising the issue of Charles Bishop Weyland from AvP with the director (via Crave): "He just sort of looked at me like I had just slapped him in the face."
AvP were kinda like Freddy Vs Jason, just a fun what-if, and not really a core part of the story.
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Where does AVP fit in the Alien timeline?
Alien: Covenant's clashing timeline But AvP features xenomorphs too, and is set in 2004, 100 years earlier. Not to mention the fact that the monsters were supposed to have been in cryogenic stasis in a secret pyramid on a remote sub-antarctic island for untold centuries.How many years after Covenant is Alien?
The most recent film Alien: Covenant from 2017 is set in 2104 (roughly ten years later) while the original 1979 film Alien is set in 2122, which would be 18 years later.How much time passed between Prometheus and Alien: Covenant?
Alien: Covenant (2104) In Alien: Covenant, we're only 11 years past the point that Prometheus left off on, with a brand new crew of human settlers making their way on a deep space colonization mission.Does Prometheus contradict AVP?
It does not contradict AVP. The only explanation that makes the Alien Universe make sense after Prometheus is that the engineers work for the "Aliens" (the term I will use for the entire Xenomorph race). The Aliens are in charge and either created or enslaved the engineers to do their bidding.Predators Engineers \u0026 Aliens - COMPLETE Timeline
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