This is how Fede & Rodo discussed the Script.....***SPOILERS***
Fede: Ok, I'm fkin ready with the story. Let's get going with the screenplay
Rodo: Great! Give me some glimpses.
Fede: Me idea......A Young Adult Escape Room Tribute to all the Alien films!
Let's start with Alien: Resurrection...actually that's my personal favorite out of all 6 and the one which I'd like to pay much of homage to. So, we have an Alien research facility just like in A:R...basically a space station where they resurrect the Alien! You may think how.....Guess what, they got hold of the dead Xenomorph which Ripley blew out of space when they went inspecting the remains of Nostromo!
Rodo: What the fuck? This is too contrived!! It doesn't happen that way. It's not so easy like they started from NY; went looking for Nostromo in L.A. and while on their way, they came across the Xenomorph which was blown out in Vegas. Its Space! It's a one in a million chance to happen like this.
Fede: Better than one in billion, right?! So, they make lot of facehuggers out of it.
Rodo: Wait a minute! The Xenomorph in Alien wasn't a Queen! How the fuck did they make facehugger eggs?
Fede: Let's have man-made egg capsule tablets and they hatch it artificially?
Rodo: BUT HOW THE FUCK...DO THEY CONCEIVE A FACEHUGGER IN FIRST PLACE????
Fede: Cool down! DNA extracting thing. Some science. Let's get Ash for doing that! Oh wait....bringing Ash will be too much on the nose; he was almost incinerated and destroyed when the ship exploded. Let's have his clone! Same model. New name...Rook!
Rodo: WTF! But how in hell Rook know the details of Alien lifecylce and what happened in Nostromo other than things mentioned in the last message which Ripley sent in the end? How would they even imagine that something like facehuggers exist?
Fede: Well...let's just keep the space station as research facility. They were manufacturing facehuggers and its cool idea to see them in man-made tablet eggs. Don't let things bother you.
Rodo: Lack of logic bothers me, man!!! Creation of the facehugger was a classic act from David who took years of study, combining insect's DNA and things. Taking this act and showing that anyone can do this and bagging it to Rook is just so lame and breaks the grandeur of Alien: Covenant's David's creation theme.
Fede: Whatever!....So, they probably made facehuggers for deriving its blood from which they'd collect lot of DNA for making Black Goo! Because Rook knows that Weyland went to LV-223 for finding elixir of life and came across the black goo.
Rodo: WTF! WTF! WTF! How the fuck does Rook know anything more than what was transmitted by Dr. Shaw??
Fede: Rodo!.....let's assume that the MUTHURs of both Prometheus & Nostromo used to transmit message logs every fkin minute and Rook got all the details what happened in both the movies. He knew how Engineers/ship in LV-223 looked like and recognized the same Engineer/ship in LV-426 with some cargo. Cut the crap out, man!
Rodo: But the Black goo was not the Elixir of life. It was a bio-weapon the engineers made specially to destroy life on Earth. The engineers could have had Elixir of life but Prometheus crews didn't come across it.
Fede: Rook uses it as growth accelerant. To modify human mine workers into more efficient climate-withstanding super humans.
Rodo: Really? Didn't Rook know........since he knows it all.....that the black goo simply turned people into monsters?
Fede: Let's say Rook will be bio-engineering it further. Once again, cut the crap! I want the black goo so we can see Alien baby scene - a mix of Prometheus & A:R
Rodo: Sounds great. So we are going to have a Deacon? a Neomorph? an Ultramoprh?
Fede: Nope! A mix of Engineer & a Xenomorph!
Rodo: The black goo doesn't have Engineer's DNA...you fkin idiot! The origin of it links to the Protomorph...the creature we see in the Mural.....Probably the engineers sacrificed one such naturally occurring species to brew the black goo or engineered a liquid which gives emergence to such Protomorph's variations carrying its predatory attributes. But there's no way it had Engineer's DNA!!!
Fede: I know that. But you know, audience knows Black goo from Prometheus and would expect an Engineer! Hahaha...So we have an Alien humanoid hybrid baby!
Rodo: [facepalm] Will it also say 'Mama'?
Fede: No. But it will be breast-fed.
Rodo: Fede......I'm in because I have signed up for the studio. Just hope I don't commit suicide after the movie is released....Bye for now!