Synopsis:

As a huge fan of the Alien Franchise, I always felt that Prometheus and Alien Covenant were an odd fit. While over the years there have been a number of great fanedits that pull the film more in line with the rest of the franchise, I've read that Ridley Scott's original intent was to make a 'side-series' about the engineers with much less of a direct link to Alien. So what if we went the other way, creating more distance from the mainline Alien films and letting Prometheus stand more on the merits of its original characters and themes? I wanted to create a version of Prometheus focused on David & Peter Weyland and the mystery of the Engineers. I also saw this as an opportunity to soften and deepen Meridith Vickers by adding flickers of the dropped romance subplot between her and the captain. Some general tightening and re-arranging of a few shots and scenes allow what I hope is a film more focused on Wayland's ambitions for immortality and the tragic effect they have on the team he sends to LV-223.

Intentions:

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Change List:

- Removed original opening credits sequence with Engineers - Added a tightened version of the Peter Weyland TED talk before the title card - New title card - Added a tightened version of David & Weland from the alternate version of the opening credits scene in Alien: Covenant - Removed about 60% of the spaceship porn in the first act - Several cuts to the pre-wakeup sequence with David alone on the Prometheus - Added a longer version of Vickers & Janek before the briefing - Added discovery of the worms - Removed Fifeild's sniping at Millburn - Made the snake attack much more sudden - Edits to Vikers & Janek's evening flirting to add some chemistry - Added Viker's short conversation with David when she's heading to stop the infected Holloway from getting in - Moved an abbreviated version of the opening Scotland scene with Shaw and Holoway to after Holloway's death. - Removed Janek's scene with Shaw later in the film as the new Vickers/Janek scene makes it redundant - Added a conversation with the engineer before he kills Weyland with subtitles based on an earlier draft of the film. - Used about 1/2 of the alternate footage for the 3rd act lifeboat sequence - Removed Elisabeth wanting to go to Paradise - she just wants to go home. - Removed the Deacon at the end. I don't think it works in this cut, and maybe I'll use it for the sequel Paradise Lost General: - Color-timed the new scenes to match the rest of the film - Removed almost all references to specific dates

Additional Notes:

Ripped UHD disc to MKVs with MakeMKV Transcoded h265 to Cineform Film Scan 2+ with Hybrid Created 5.1 WAV files with dmMediaConverter Edited, timed, and mixed in Davinci Resolve 19 Transcoded edited Cineform to h264 high at to resolutions: 3840x1648 & 1920x832 (4k & FHD at aprox 21:9) with Handbrake

Other Sources:

Alien: Covenant Prometheus OST

Special Thanks:

A huge shout out to the amazing Prometheus fanedits that came before me, most specifically Severian's Prometheus: Giftbearer, which was a template for using the TED talk as an intro and de-dumbifying the scientists.