MOVIE NEWS – Ridley Scott’s director’s cut of Alien has reinserted a legendary deleted scene. All of this could spark a massive controversy in the later instalments of the franchise.

Ridley Scott’s Alien: Director’s Cut has reinserted a scene that will create a huge plot hole in the franchise. The Alien series has produced several famous deleted scenes over the years. For example, when Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) discovers the cocooned Burke (Paul Reiser) in the finale of Aliens. Or when the resurrected Engineer briefly speaks in Scott’s Prometheus prequel. While these scenes were once only featured in novels or articles about the series, the release of DVD and Blu-ray has made them widely available.

Of course, the rules for the titular Xenomorph in the Alien film series were primarily set in the 1979 original, from his life cycle to the fact that his blood is acidic.

One element remains a mystery: what laid the eggs that the Nostromo crew discovered in the wreckage. The answer was only revealed with the release of Aliens in 1986. James Cameron’s sequel revealed the existence of the Alien Queen, who lays the eggs and is the ruler of the Xenomorph hive in question. However, the original film took the creatures’ life cycle in an almost entirely different direction.

Brett and Dallas “become eggs” in the deleted scene from Alien?!

In 1979, few or none of the audience knew the name of Sigourney Weaver, whose film debut was Alien. Instead, Tom Skerritt (MASH) was arguably the biggest actor in the cast. He played Captain Dallas. Although he is an important character, his death is not shown on camera.

This was intentional, as the story originally included a scene in which Ripley discovers both Dallas and Brett’s (Harry Dean Stanton) bodies in a Xenomorph nest.

The unfortunate duo are undergoing an “egg morph”. Their bodies are being used to create new facehugger eggs. While Brett appears dead, Ripley finds Dallas alive and begs her to put him out of his misery. A very reluctant Ripley then sets both eggs on fire. She then flees the Nostromo before it is destroyed. Although the scene is a fascinating curiosity in itself, it was wisely cut from the original release, as the pace of the film stops at this point in the story.

The slightly faster pace of Scott’s revised director’s cut makes this version just about work. When it came time for Cameron to pick up a pen for Aliens, he decided not to use the cancelled egg shifter concept instead of a Queen. The latter was arguably a better idea.

Any newcomers who stumble upon Scott’s director’s cut for the first time will be confused by the sequel, as the egg-changing sequence presents the Xenos’ reproduction completely differently.

Alien fans are still debating the canonicity of the “egg morph” scene. And the concept has been developed in various spinoffs, such as spinoff novels. No film has ever used this idea. But it can be argued that a Xenomorph drone could use this method to create a nest if there is no Queen around. While this is an exciting topic to discuss about, its deletion helped avoid a later plot inconsistency within the franchise.

Source: Reddit