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‘Alien: Covenant’: Official Logo, Synopsis and a Release Date!

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Finally, we’ve got official news direct from the studio! Twentieth Century Fox has released a bunch of information for Ridley Scott’s Alien: Covenant, his newly titled Prometheus sequel that went under the title Alien: Paradise Lost for a short period of time.

We not only got our hands on the official logo, which hearkens back to the opening sequence of the original 1979 film, but also scored a synopsis!

“Ridley Scott returns to the universe he created in ‘Alien’ with ‘Alien: Covenant’, the second chapter in a prequel trilogy that began with ‘Prometheus’ — and connects directly to Scott’s 1979 seminal work of science fiction. Bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, the crew of the colony ship Covenant discovers what they think is an uncharted paradise, but is actually a dark, dangerous world — whose sole inhabitant is the “synthetic” David (Michael Fassbender), survivor of the doomed Prometheus expedition.”

Interestingly enough, Noomi Rapace is suspiciously absent from this synopsis. Prometheus ended with Rapace and Fassbender embarking on an alien ship to head to the Engineer’s home planet in search of answers. However, the synopsis makes no mention of her, which seems somewhat odd. Every film in the Alien universe has been led by a strong female character, so this feels like a bit of a deviation, although it’s rumored that Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation‘s Rebecca Ferguson is allegedly in talks to join Scott’s Covenant expedition.

In regards to the Covenant crew, “It’s going to be its own separate thing because they are going to the planet of the Engineers and they are going to see what happened there. It was a disaster,” Scott revealed earlier in October. “And they will be in that alien craft that takes them there, but with a new group that’s incoming, a new group of travelers in the beginning of the first act.” Scott also spoke of a new origin story for the Alien Xenomorphs.

Fox also hatched a new date for Alien: Covenant: October 6th, 2017. Looks like we have a bit of a wait but nothing too unmanageable.

Regarding the title of the film, Brad has an interesting theory on where it’s coming from. Check it out here.

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‘Dead Mail’ Exclusive Images: SXSW Horror Movie Begins With a Blood-Stained Postal Box Delivery

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One of the genre films we’re looking forward to checking out at SXSW this year is Dead Mail, written and directed by Joe DeBoer and Kyle McConaghy and premiering on March 9.

Meagan Navarro will be reviewing Dead Mail for Bloody Disgusting as part of her SXSW coverage, and she writes in her preview for the upcoming fest: “Dead Mail leans heavily into the ’80s analog aesthetic, delivering a unique crime thriller unafraid to get offbeat with its dark narrative. Expect its characters to be as atypical as Dead Mail‘s sense of style.”

In the SXSW 2024 horror film…

“On a desolate, Midwestern county road, a bound man crawls towards a remote postal box, managing to slide a blood-stained plea-for-help message into the slot before a panicking figure closes in behind him. The note makes its way to the county post office and onto the desk of Jasper, a seasoned and skilled “dead letter” investigator, responsible for investigating lost mail and returning it to its sender. As he investigates further, Jasper meets Trent, a strange yet unassuming man who has taken up residence at the men’s home where Jasper lives.

“When Trent unexpectedly shows up at Jasper’s office, it becomes clear he has a vested interest in the note, and will stop at nothing to retrieve it…”

Sterling Macer, Jr., John Fleck, Susan Priver, Micki Jackson, Tomas Boykin, and Nick Heyman star in Dead Mail. Preview the film with an exclusive image gallery below.

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