• Fanedit Title: Prometheus Covenant - Balsicon Cut

• Original Movie Title: Prometheus/Alien: Covenant

• Original Release Date: June 8, 2012/May 19, 2017

• Original Runtime: 2 Hours and 4 Minutes/2 Hours and 2 Minutes

• Fanedit Release Date: January 6, 2024

• Fanedit Running Time: 4 hours, 22 minutes

• Time Removed/Added: 53 minutes cut, 1 Hour and 9 minutes added

• Synopsis: The discovery of a clue to mankind's origins on Earth leads a team of explorers to the darkest parts of the universe.

• Intentions: I released on a fan edit of Alien Romulus recently, along with updated edits of Alien, Aliens and Alien³. I then set my sights on recreating Prometheus Covenant, a combination of both prequels to Alien. I was deeply disappointed by Prometheus when it released, confused by why Ridley Scott decided to distance the film so far from the original Alien. This trend continued to some degree in Alien Covenant, but almost in an inverse. All the goodwill that the story created was wiped out by a tired sequence of a Xenomorph on a spaceship that overwhelmed the film's final act.

• With Prometheus Covenant, my goal was to trim the elements from the films that actively distanced them from the original Alien, drawing from the wealth of deleted and promotional content supporting both films. This time around, I was able to source all but a few deleted sequences from the blu-rays.

• While the stories are essentially the same, my hope is that this restructuring tells a more consistent story focused on the android David and his desire to achieve godhood by creating a perfect origin.

Change List: 

• Opened with the Alien3 opening score, plus my fan editing credit

• Swapped in the "Arrival of the Engineers" deleted scene featuring the elder Engineers

• Added a new opening title credit

• Continued with Weyland's TedTalk presentation from the promotional materials - cutting references to the year 2023

• Added the "Meet Walter" promotional spot from Alien Covenant (Extended edit only)

• Included the extended prologue from Alien Covenant with David meeting his maker

• Added the "Happy Birthday David, "Quiet Eye," and "Transmission" promotional spots (Extended edit only)

• Continued with the plot of Prometheus, cutting Shaw and Holloway finding the drawings in the cave. David goes about his business on the ship as the crew sleeps, but him spying on Shaw's dream is moved to right after the Prometheus reaches its destination

• Added a ship log stating that the Prometheus is headed to LV-426. I know that LV-223 is displayed on screens later on. I'm not talented enough to change that. I ask that you disregard those details and just imagine that the Prometheus is en route to LV-426, the same moon that the Nostromo landed on in 1979's Alien

• Added the extended Christmas scene between Vickers and Janek

• Cut Fifield's response to Millburn's greeting

• Cut old man Weyland's hologram giving a speech to the crew

• Added the deleted scene where the Prometheus crew finds alien life after they remove their helmets

• Cut the line about Martian piss onboard the Engineer ship

• Cut around Fifield's outburst about a dead body arena

• Removed a shot during the silica storm where David stands unnaturally stiffly middair when being pulled back into the ship

• Added the deleted scene of Millburn and Fifield discovering the shed alien skin once Janek realizes they're missing

• Added the deleted scene of Shaw telling the story of how the world came to be before her argument with Holloway

• Removed Shaw and Ford trying to revive the Engineer head's nervous system until it explodes. Once they discover cancerous cells, cut to David saying "Mortal after all"

• Cut the scene with David and Vickers arguing over what Weyland said to David while in stasis

• Trimmed some frames when David offers a drunk Dr. Holloway a spiked drink, hoping to minimize the water droplet sound effect and hide that David spiked the drink

• Removed the shot of Janek waking up to Millburn and Fifield's signal so that the subsequent jump scare is more jarring

• Cut Janek's line warning Millburn and Fifield not to bugger each other

• Swapped in a deleted scene with Shaw and a drunken Holloway arguing over their results of the genetic tests on the Engineer

• Cut the scene where Janek shows off Stephen Still's squeezebox and hits on Vickers

• Trimmed Millburn and Fifield's final scene, particularly when they're discussing the gazpacho and "tobacco" their suits are feeding them

• Cut the first instance of Millburn calling the Hammerpedes beautiful

• Swapped in the deleted scene where Holloway inspects himself in the mirror after being infected and his additional dialogue with Shaw

• Combined the two sequences of David observing the hologram, cutting to Holloway becoming ill afterwards

• Added a deleted scene of Vickers ordering David back once Shaw leaves to bring Holloway to the Prometheus

• Added the deleted scene of Janek trying to comfort Vickers after she had to deal with Holloway

• Added the alternate sequence of Fifield's attack with the more mutated, CG creature

• Added an additional speech from Weyland to the Engineer

• Moved shots of the Engineer armoring up in his ship to save for an epilogue later

• Cut shots when from the sequence when Engineer ship's crashing to make it look like Shaw and Vickers aren't just running directly ahead of it as it rolls forward

• Swapped in the alternate climax where the Engineer searches the med pod when hunting Shaw, and added the alternate exchange with Shaw and David at the end

• Removed the scene where the Deacon alien emerges from the Engine

• Replaced that with a sequence made from earlier shots of the Engineer armoring up in this ship, about to take off, before adding a close up with blood splatter and a chestburster sound effect, hinting that this Engineer is the same Space Jockey being that the crew of the Nostromo discovers in Alien

• Transitioned to "The Crossing" promotional spot where Shaw repairs David and he puts her into cryosleep for their journey

• Added the "Phobos" segment to introduce crew members from The Covenant ship (Extended edit only)

• Added "Last Supper" next to further introduce the rest of the crew and their mission.

• Added Oram and Daniel's "Transmission" scenes from promotional material (Extended edit only)

• Added the scene of Walter tending the garden after he checks on the ship's embryos before the ship hits a solar flare

• Added the deleted scene with Oram confronting and trying to console Daniels after her partner's death

• Added an extended scene of Oram observing Daniels and crew observing Branson's death against his orders.

• Cut the "sweet-tits," "sugar-dick" exchange when the crew makes their descent to the planet

• Added the "Ledward Falls" deleted scene once he and Tom are infected

• Added a deleted scene with the Covenant crew crossing to David's encampment

• Added a deleted scene with Daniels and Walter discussing David and the history of his android model

• Added the deleted scene "Rosenthal's Prayer"

• Added Walter's deleted debrief before Oram goes to look for his stray flock

• Cut Oram asking, "What do you believe in, David" before his chestburster emerges

• Removed the sequence with David and the chestburster rising together to stand and reflect one another's movements

• Shortened "Walter" looking back at their temporary encampment

• Entirely removed the final climactic battle against the xenomorph within the Covenant

• Created a conclusion from two promotional scenes - and "Signs of Life," and "Last Signs of Life," including an image of Shaw as the xenomorph queen that I edited together from an alternate Covenant poster, along with multiple HR Giger's drawings