10 Movies ONLY MADE In Response To Film Critics

5. Ridley Scott Changed The Entire Movie After The Prometheus Backlash - Alien: Covenant

While a follow-up to Ridley Scott's Alien prequel Prometheus was always on the cards, the form it ended up taking was a far leap from the project as originally planned.

Initially, the Prometheus sequel was going to be called "Paradise" and later "Alien: Paradise Lost," with early drafts focusing on the prior film's sole human survivor, Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace), as she ventured to the Engineer homeworld with android David (Michael Fassbender).

But that all changed when Prometheus came out.

Though the film was broadly well-received, many critics and fans alike expressed disappointment with how tangentially it slotted into the mythology of Alien, and the vague, confusing nature of its internal logic (particularly how the proto-Xenomorph was created).

And so, the reception prompted Scott to change tack, reimagining his direct sequel to Prometheus as something quite different.

In the end, the storyline involving Shaw and the Engineers was dropped almost entirely, focusing instead on David and a new crew, while also giving far more screen time to the Xenomorphs.

Covenant's reviews were ultimately mixed-positive, some frustrated by Scott deciding to "course-correct" following Prometheus, ultimately in a direction many deemed less compelling.

Between this and Covenant's commercial disappointment, a planned third film was put on ice, and so the recently Scott-confirmed third prequel will likely once again depart in yet another direction.