-Bloo-,
Xenomorph,
11 years ago
I don't really wanna see Shaw fighting a bunch of Engineers. At least, I don't want her to fight them in a huge war or anything.
Here's my vision: Shaw is off on her own on the Engineer planet, or at least an important stronghold, which is, by now, abandoned after millions of years. Whatever killed all the Engineers on the Derelict was still on board - perhaps another Deacon - and is awakened as Shaw and David exit the ship. David sort of acts as Shaw's Cortana, but isn't exactly that helpful, and there are numerous points in the story where she has to go off on her own because she can't carry David through an air duct, or he has to stay manually connected to a computer system or something. The adult Deacon is obviousy the antagonist here, stalking and even toying with Shaw, because here, it's not simply a monster - it's a reimagining of Giger's Drone, which was the personification of a man's darkest sexual desires. In other words, it wants to rape her, not kill her.
Of course, there would be completely legitimate reasons for her to wander off in and outside the ship, among those reasons being the aforementioned "David can't go through a vent or has to be connected to an Engineer computer" idea. She wants answers, after all, and she has to go everywhere she can where there are clues as to why the planet is a barren wasteland.
This is also an opportunity for us to see Engineer scenery, which can easily be made up of Giger's landscape paintings. The biomechanical nature of the world would only add more depth and horror to the film. It would also effectively bring back the way the Xeno "lives" in the background - you could literally have the Deacon lurking in the background for most of the film and no one would notice.
Then, of course, you could have David questioning both his and Shaw's existence, which was the theme of the first movie. No living Engineers would actually appear, but they'd be a major aspect.
This movie wouldn't exactly hand us answers on a silver platter, but that's why Director's Commentaries exist.