Because he was so steeped in the Engineer lore, Lindelof might have some idea of where the franchise plans to go after the events of Alien: Covenant.
First off, did he see anything in Covenant that he recognized from his and Scott’s talks about the franchise?
While speaking to Collider about his other project, that little series you might’ve heard of called The Leftovers, Lindelof answered a few questions about his take on the Alien movies.
So that search for God as it were to go and ask, ‘Why did you make me and to what end?’