Peter Weyland

"For those of you who do not yet know me, allow me to introduce myself. My name is Peter Weyland, and if you'll indulge me, I'd like to change the world."

- Peter Weyland introduces himself during his talk at TED in the year 2023 Peter Weyland is the secondary antagonist of the Alien film franchise. He is a billionaire, scientist ,inventor and entrepreneur who is actually the founder and CEO of Weyland-Yutani Corporation, and the creator and developer of David 8, the main antagonist of the entire franchise and of the entire synthetics. He seeks to gain immortality at any cost even if it means to wipe out lives of other beings.

He was portrayed by Guy Pearce, who also portrayed Aldrich Killian.

Early Life
Peter Weyland was born on October 1st, 1990 at Mumbai, India to his mother which was an Oxford-educated Professor of Comparative Mythology, and his father, a self-taught engineer. Right on the age of 14, he was granted a Method Patent for a synthetic trachea constructed entirely of synthetically-engineered stem cells, becoming his twelfth registered patent to date. On October 11, 2012, he had founded the eponymus science company Weyland-Yutani Corporation.

The Rise of Weyland
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Role in the films of Alien
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Personality
Weyland is an extremely egotistic, arrogant and selfish individual in the meaning of the word. He does not recognize in the true value of science, so that is why he sends teams of scientists from his company to life-risking missions in which there are the Xenomorphs. Over the years, Weyland attempted to find immortality, which is his only true goal; to find immortality for only himself. Yet, he is an anti-villain as he wishes to use Weyland Corp to create a new world for humanity.

Trivia

 * In order to transform Guy Pearce into an old man, the filmmakers of Prometheus used in CGI.