Alien: Romulus Timeline Reveals Weyland-Yutani Sent Hadley's Hope To LV426 To Die - Theory Explained

Just to clarify, this video is to theorize WHY the company felt the need to send an entire colony to lv426. The events of alien take place in 2122, the events of Romulus take place in 2142 and sometimes in 2150, Hadley's hope is established. Which shows the company got desperate, after the events of Romulus and presumably losing all test subjects during the events of the film. They then decide to establish an entire colony so they have HUNDREDS of specimens to work from.

Given that Weyland-Yutani is portrayed as a huge corporation it could just be that the left hand doesn't know what the right is doing.

If you've ever played Alien: Isolation, which I believe Fox has actually acknowledged to be part of the actual film canon, then Weyland-Yutani already knowing about the Xenomorphs in Alien: Romulus is a no-brainer, since Romulus is supposed to be set 20 years after Alien, which would therefore place it only 5 years after Isolation's events.

I could be misremembering, but aren't Weyland Yutani executives widely keeping secrets from each other to protect their percentage? If that is the case, different parts of the company could be experimenting with xenomorphs without the others knowing.

If you look at the out-takes of Aliens there is a sequence where Newts parents are sent out to the derelict on WY orders (after Ripleys debrief IIRC).

It's all in the novel, Alien: River of Pain, it tells the story of the colony on LV-426 leading up to the exposure to the xenomorphs on the derelict ship on Acheron. Weyland-Yutani did send those colonists to the planet knowing of the danger. It was all intentional.

“The company” is always WY. Burke mentions it repeatedly about financing, setup, etc. We never learn how they knew, but we are given every reason to believe it was known and it was the entire reason they were stationed there. How else does Burke learn about the derelict ship to send the family to at first?

I just hope this film isnt ruined with DISNEY'S "vision"

Prometheus and Covenant broke continuity because the crew of the Nostromo said that the Engineer / Pilot / Space Jockey was fossilized, about a 1000yrs old I think, and that had died from a chest burster? If David created the Xenomorphs, then why was there a mural of a Xenomorph aboard the Engineers ship in one of the prequels, that ship had been there for a very long time?

OR...Here is my theory. Perhaps Weyland-Yutani knew about Xenomorphs BUT Carter Burke being a low/mid level management type did NOT know that the company already knew Aliens existed so he sent the colonist to look for the wrecked ship Ripley reported in the hope that HE would benefit from a huge discovery. Perhaps the company knew of Xenomorphs but was totally unaware of the crashed ship on LV-426 at the time Ripley was found. The hearing where Ripley reported the events of her destroying the Nostromo was held by some governmental body NOT Weyland-Yutani. Burke was the only company employee in attendance other than Ripley so the company would not have know what occurred in that hearing until Burke reported back to the company. Burke could have altered or omitted details of the report or withheld the report from the company until after he sent colonist to the wrecked spacecraft so he could have an "exclusive" as he later stated to Ripley. There is a good chance the company may not have know about the engineer's crashed ship at all when Burke sent the colonist to investigate yet Weyland-Yutani may have still known of Xenomorphs from other previous encounters. Burke was fairly low ranking within the company so he had no idea of what he did not know. I would think that Weyland-Yutani held their cards close to the vest and did not share a secret as big as the Xenomorph with rank and file low/mid level managers. Just a thought.

Different writers over the years have messed things up a bit ... But Aliens seems to clearly suggest that WY didn't know about the crashed derelict until Ripley was found. Then somebody in the weapons division got excited and told Burke to check out the co-ordinates by sending some colonists on a treasure hunt. The colony is wiped out, and Burke is sent with the marines to do what Ash failed at ... get a sample of some kind. If anything I always got the impression that different divisions of WY were working against each other. The board room that Ripley spoke to might have been genuinely unaware of the derelict and aliens ... but the weapons division were secretly in the know and BADLY wanted a sample despite the risk to all of humanity. THIS makes the most sense when it comes to why WY seemed to be so slow at times, and would spend years waiting between opportunities to hunt for Xeno's .... The company as a WHOLE weren't after these things ... it was just certain separate divisions and a select few people in power, mostly linked to weapons development. ... So yeah, with that in mind they COULD have sent the colonists to the planet ... with one hand knowing the danger, but the other hand blissfully unaware ...

I wish there was a final Ripley movie where Alien 3 and Resurrection are not canon. And that Ripley after the events of Aliens alongside an older Newt and and very scarred Hicks expose and fully destroy Weyland Yutani.

This franchise really needs a decently-loyal adaptation to Earth Hive. That would be a truly terrifying film.

Agreed that Romulus doesn't have to break canon and that WY was probably aware of what was on LV-426 despite never hearing back from the Nostromo and later establishing a colony there. But accepting that premise, it's odd that WY would wait decades to put this plan in motion through someone like Burke. Everything was fine at Hadley's Hope until he gave the okay to the Jorden family to survey the derelict in 2179. The logical explanation is that it ultimately wasn't Burke acting unilaterally, but may have just been a stooge who was given the green light from someone higher up. It's likely that someone more influential (a descendant of Peter Weyland?) had more knowledge about the real nature of what was on LV-426 and simply used Burke as a middle management pawn. All that said, it's peculiar that so much time went by at Hadley's Hope without issue, until Ripley was randomly found by a salvage team. I can buy the premise of a grander conspiracy, but it still doesn't make much sense for WY to set up this nefarious plan and then wait for testimony from a warrant officer who'd been assumed dead for half a century before putting the plan into action.

Hadley's Hope was an experiment. But with Ripley being found and nothing happening on the planet. They gave Hadley's Hope a kick in the direction on the space ship.

Another interesting but obscure detail is that David actually contacts Weyland Yutani in the promotional material around Alien Covenant with an "olive branch". This could mean that Weyland knew all the way since Covenant about the Alien. Now whether David did actually have an offer for them or just wanted more test subjects (The Nostromo Crew) sent his way will have to be determined in a later movie if Ridley Scott wants to finish between covenant and Alien 1.

Well yes ...Ash was sent for that mission in the first place ...

we dont need Alien:Romulus to tell us this. We knew this from Aliens.

If prometheus is taken in consideration then I don't care for this story. The only thing I want is a proper Aliens 3 with Ripley, Hicks and Newt, if they don't give me this, I don't care at all.

In covenant, David sends back info to WY telling them everything that was done. He also would have given them the idea to keep an ear out for any other signes of the engineers. That is the whole basis for the nostromo being told to check it out. Since the nostromo blew up, WY never got the news about lv-426 until ripley showed back up. As for why the colony was sent there, it is rich in superconducting ore and other metals/minerals. Now to explain the promethius black goo used in Romulus, again, David sent back the info about what happened during the promethius part of the mission so WY would know about the goo, what it does and where it was. David may not have passed info about what happenned when he finally got to the new planet he planned to go to or what he did to the colonists. There, it all works now