Alien Covenant
And it's open in China. Guess I didn't have to see it in the US.
I still think it's far better than Prometheus. Not as good as Alien, but much more in line with the whole mood of Alien.
SPOILER ALERT
The whole Engineers being genetically more or less human was established in Prometheus. My best way to interpret is is that Engineers have been around for a very very long time, and humans (along with most/all of life on Earth) were the result of Engineers either establishing life on the planet and guiding evolution or else finding that Earth organisms were sufficiently genetically compatible to allow selected alterations over time to result in humans. Either way, they were planning to end the experiment until a lab accident ended their bioweapons program.
BIG SPOILER ALERT
Yeah, making David the creator of the egg and facehugger Aliens did seem a bit farfetched. It also is in conflict with a frozen alien queen being in the pyramid in AVP. However, there is a possible way out of both of these objections.
David has access to an Engineer ship which was part of their bioweapons program. He also had access to one of their cities (homeworld?). It's possible the Engineers had already developed (or discovered) the egg and facehugger Aliens we all know and love, but discarded them for the infectious version - since that makes bombing a city or planet a much faster way to clear out the local population if one is in a hurry to redevelop the area. If this is the case, David would have access to the information and technology to recreate the older version. Why he'd prefer this version remains unknown. Maybe he likes this slower, more terrifying version of Alien reproduction for esthetic reasons.
The implication is that the passengers on the Covenant become hosts/snackfood for Aliens. He yakked up a pair, which were probably a queen and a drone of some sort, so was all set to get production of new eggs going. But this leaves some big unaswered questions before we get to the original Alien movie.
The Engineer ship David previously flew appears to be wrecked halfway up a mountain. He and his victims to be are in space aboard the Covenant moving on towards their original destination. But the crew of the Nostromo discover a huge pile of eggs on an Engineer ship, not a colony ship or at a colony. Does David manage to take Covenant to a world with Engineer ships and transfer all the eggs his new queen lays to an Engineer ship for some reason? Why park the ship on a world which is uninhabitable without major terraforming? In Aliens, it appears that this level of terraforming was developed while Ripley and her cat were still waiting for their lifeboat to be rescued. Why is there a beacon on the shipload of eggs which takes just a little too long to translate as being a warning? David would have put out a sign saying "Free Kittens!" and found a way to preserve himself so he could watch the fun when someone showed up, or he'd just have taken the eggs to another colony world. How does the Company know there's some life form so interesting along the Nostromo's flight path that they put Ash on the crew to try to insure retrieval of a specimen (crew expendable
)?
My guess is we need one more movie to fill in the gaps.