
But still, he’s mighty expensive for a cut-out cameo. According to Google, he was in this prologue scene that’s not actually in the film.

His only real lines are delivered in a video message that looks like leftover 127 Hours footage. He also dies horribly within the first several minutes of the film.
#RACE INTO SPACE FOR DROID MOVIE#
Why is James Franco in this movie for about two seconds?įranco plays the rightful captain of the Covenant. The Covenant’s cryo-chambers were swinging around wildly like candy in an old vending machine anytime the ship hit turbulence. MORE Here’s How Alien: Covenant Fits Into the Overall Alien Timeline Why didn’t they strap those sleeping chambers containing the colonists down more tightly? But this series of unfortunate coincidences is never really explained. As is the fact that that event happens to kill the ship’s captain who might have actually listened to his wife when she said, “Umm, maybe we shouldn’t go poking around a strangely perfect planet?” But the crew makes a point of having missed this Earth-like planet precisely when they were looking for an Earth-like planet to colonize? How? Maybe the alien civilization that lived there before had cloaked it somehow. Why was Walter (Michael Fassbender) onboard the colonist ship Covenant? Is this a Weyland-sponsored mission or has Walter become the iMac of droids in this timeline? Why didn’t the mission spot that planet perfectly capable of sustaining human life (and Earth wheat!) before venturing forth?Ī random, cataclysmic event that halts a space ship right next to the planet David (also Michael Fassbender) is living on is believable enough. Did the Weyland company sponsor the Covenant’s mission?
