Alien Deleted Scene Became A Big Xenomorph Plot Hole When Ridley Scott Made It Canon

Ridley Scott canonized a deleted scene from the original 1979 classic horror film Alien, however that causes some major issues with the lore. Join Screen Rant as they look into this issue and break down the new xenomorph plot hole

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Adapted from an article by: Padraig Cotter

Video By Chris Goodmakers

[cpeplinski]

How is Dallas and Brett being cocooned equate them to morphing into eggs? A warrior xeno creating a hive and cocooning potential hosts makes plenty of sense and creates no contradictions.

[LostMoonOfBumholle]

If you read the novelisation of Alien by Alan Dean Foster, the whole scene of Dallas being discovered by Ripley fits quite nicely.

It doesn't film as well simply because it slows the pace of the scenes of Ripley setting the self destruct of the ship and then stumbling across the Alien in the corridor staring fascinated at the yowling Jones in his catbox and THEN zooming back to try and cancel the self destruct sequence.

Those scenes play along nicely at a quick, panicky pace on film. Reading a novel is a whole different matter. Time and pacing doesn't have the same importance.

Incidentally, as written originally, Ripley asks the cocooned Dallas what happened to Brett, and he turns his head to the slowly dissolving mess to his left and says, clearly, "that was Brett". She has a couple of lines where she tries to convince him she can get him to the autodoc in the infirmary and fix him up, but, nah...

Scott is right. The original cut is the best, the director's cut just adds interesting titbits for the fans.

Incidentally, I believe the full movie actually ran for over three and a half hours before they started trimming it down for time, pacing, etc.

[happyspaceinvader]

So much wrong here. Alien “Director’s Cut” begins with Scott (the director) explaining that it is NOT a director’s cut, because he had no interference from the studio, so the real director’s cut is the one that released in theatres.

Also, the deleted scene didn’t “introduce a plot hole”, because the scene was written, filmed and then discarded years before the sequel Aliens was even conceived.

And neither did Aliens have a plot hole relating to a scene that was cut out of Alien and therefore not canon.

And the deleted scene itself does not show anyone “morphing into eggs”.

You guys are so obsessed with “lore” and movie franchises that you see it (and obsess over it) everywhere.

[DarkZero]

It’s not a plot hole. It’s a separate way to reproduce. Without a queen, they can cocoon and repurpose the material into an egg that would have a facehugger carrying queen. It’s a the ultimate survivor and as long as there’s one Xenomorph and at least two hosts (one for the egg, and one for the facehugger) a queen can always be reborn

[tyrongkojy]

It's only a plot hole if you think Scott cares about the sequels. He does NOT. He HATES Aliens, and as far as he was concerned it simply does not happen. Which makes SO much more sense when you consider the prequels.

[Nether]

Scott said himself he still likes the original cut and wouldn’t choose to change it, but made an extended cut because fans wanted it. I wouldn’t consider this canon.

[matthewwhite]

The deleted scenes are NOT cannon. Ridley Scott agreed to do this "directors cut" as service to the fans. 20th Century Fox wanted to do a special version of the film for the 25th anniversary of the film, and Ridley figured if anyone should be involved it should be him.

However he's gone on record stating that this is a "directors cut" in name only. He considers it an alternate version and prefers his original theatrical release better. This isn't a true directors cut in the vein of some of his other films like Blade Runner and Kingdom of Heaven.

[DPYROAXIS]

I don't accept prometheus or covenant as cannon, it just doesn't fit or nake sense

[AChapstickOrange]

Seems to me that something as adaptable as the xenomorphs would have more than one strategy for perpetuating the species. I don't think it has to be strictly just one or the other.

[NoNameNo.]

Ridley Scott and James Cameron are both CANNON LAW, the theatrical releases of both of those films were nearly perfect

[piercarlosoares]

Why everyone accepts that crap thing about David been the creator of Xenomorphs?!

[SamLowryDZ-]

Why don't you do some proper research and see what the director of the first film had to say.
And STOP obsessing about 'universes' and enjoy films for what they are.

[BullScrapPracEff]

Looks like you need to look up how cannon works and what word means. Plus you've completely dumphed on the whole aliens created by a robot...

[Devil]

At this point i think people have wanted the egg morphing to be a thing so bad it’s believed canon movie wise after all these decades. Yes the Xeno is the ultimate survivor, but at this point i don’t think they were egg morphing anymore.

I just think the Xeno was getting a hive setup for the potential queen we nor it ever got see. Because eggs were still on the engineers ship, there never was anything saying a potential queen egg wasn’t in the midst of those.