10 Horror Movies That Missed Out The Money Shot

One of the stars of Prometheus, Noomi Rapace's Elizabeth Shaw was set to once again be at the centre of Ridley Scott's Prometheus follow-up. Well, that is until the director completely backtracked on his initial plans.

By the end of Prometheus, Shaw is on a journey to the Engineers' home planet, with the remains of the David android along for the ride. At that point, the next film in the series was dubbed Alien: Paradise Lost and was intended to focus on Shaw's mission - with Scott categorically stating how there will be no xenomorph presence in the picture, and that Paradise Lost would be far more in tune with the style and aesthetic of Prometheus than any of the prior Alien movies.

With the Paradise Lost title reworked as Alien: Covenant, audiences received a vastly different sequel to what was originally promised by the time Covenant made its way to the silver screen in 2017. Still, it was confirmed that Noomi Rapace would be back in a minor role for the film.

Rather than being featured in Covenant, though, Doc Shaw was absent from the theatrical cut of the movie. Instead, her corpse was shown in a promotional pre-release prologue, with it known that she died after being experimented on by David - but the money short of these experiments and subsequent death never made it to screens.