10 Hidden Movies Secrets From Director's Commentaries
3. A Hitler Reference Was Removed From Alien: Covenant
Alien: Covenant's mechanical menace David is a truly terrible individual. Ridley Scott didn't need to juxtapose him to Hitler to demonstrate that, so it's probably for the best that a visual reference to the Nazi dictator was purged from the film.
Scott provided an off-the-cuff commentary for his latest Alien prequel, waffling on unscripted and revealing tonnes of interesting anecdotes along the way.
One of them is that the script originally called for David to perform an "Adolph Hitler kick" while walking past the sleeping colonists in Covenant's uplifting final scene, but Scott chose to nix it because it looked "too comical".
The director also confirmed that he got the idea for David's alien embryo smuggling trick while doing research into drug mules for his upcoming movie, The Cartel.