Covenant Repeated The Alien Franchise’s Biggest Death Mistake 25 Years Later

While Alien: Covenant clearly intended to shock viewers by opening with a major character death, this only resulted in the sequel revisiting one of the Alien franchise’s biggest mistakes. Alien 3 was one of the most infamously troubled productions in Hollywood. Despite this, it’s striking just how many errors made it into the finished film. While Alien and Aliens had their flaws, Alien 3 was full of bizarre storytelling choices and misguided plot elements that would never have worked, even if the movie’s creative team hadn’t been repeatedly reshuffled during production. One example was reducing the franchise’s threat back down to a lone Xenomorph.