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New Featurette Reveals Ripley’s Connection to ‘Alien: Covenant’?
Has the biggest rumor about Alien: Covenant just been confirmed?
So Fox dropped a new featurette titled “Alien: Covenant – The Next Chapter” earlier today. As Brad reported, it’s home to some new footage we hadn’t yet seen, detailing how the events of the new film tie in to the events of Prometheus. But what’s perhaps most interesting about the footage is that it features a familiar voice that seems to be suggesting something BIG about the film.
Heard at the very beginning of the featurette and at several points throughout is the voice of the ship’s computer system MU/TH/UR 6000 (aka “Mother”), and unless our ears are deceiving us, we’re pretty damn sure that Sigourney Weaver voiced the A.I. system. If it is Weaver’s voice, then that of course means that the voice of “Mother” is, well, Ellen freakin’ Ripley!
But does that make any sense? Yes, actually.
Alien: Covenant takes place in 2103, 10 years after Prometheus (2093) and 19 years before Alien (2122). Ellen Ripley was born in 2092, which would make her 11 years old at the time of the Alien: Covenant events. So the timelines do line up here. And then there’s that HUGE Covenant rumor we recently reported on, which Ridley Scott kinda sorta (but not really) shot down a few weeks back. The rumor? New character Daniels, played by Katherine Waterston, is the mother of Ellen Ripley. She sure looks like Ripley, so it’s not hard to believe that they’re related.
Could it be that Weyland-Yutani used Daniels’ young daughter (Ellen Ripley) as the voice of “Mother”? Suddenly, that rumor is starting to feel like way more than silly fan speculation.
After all, the whole idea of Covenant is to lead into what we saw in Alien.
Check out the new featurette vid below and decide for yourself.
Katherine Waterston stars with Michael Fassbender returning as Prometheus‘ android David (and Walter), with a crew that includes Demian Bichir and Danny McBride (“Eastbound and Down”), as well as Alex England (Gods of Egypt), Billy Crudup, Amy Seimetz (A Horrible Way to Die, “The Killing”), Jussie Smollett (“Empire”), Carmen Ejogo, and Callie Hernandez (Machete Kills). James Franco also has a role, which was confirmed in this short film.
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.
Scott had previously promised to answer questions that left Prometheus viewers confused: “Covenant is really going to show you who did it and why.”
Alien: Covenant takes off for Paradise on May 19, 2017.
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’28 Years Later’ – Ralph Fiennes, Jodie Comer, and Aaron Taylor-Johnson Join Long Awaited Sequel
Danny Boyle and Alex Garland (Annihilation, Men), the director and writer behind 2002’s hit horror film 28 Days Later, are reteaming for the long-awaited sequel, 28 Years Later. THR reports that the sequel has cast Jodie Comer (Alone in the Dark, “Killing Eve”), Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Kraven the Hunter), and Ralph Fiennes (The Menu).
The plan is for Garland to write 28 Years Later and Boyle to direct, with Garland also planning on writing at least one more sequel to the franchise – director Nia DaCosta is currently in talks to helm the second installment.
No word on plot details as of this time, or who Comer, Taylor-Johnson, and Fiennes may play.
28 Days Later received a follow up in 2007 with 28 Weeks Later, which was executive produced by Boyle and Garland but directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo. Now, the pair hope to launch a new trilogy with 28 Years Later. The plan is for Garland to write all three entries, with Boyle helming the first installment.
Boyle and Garland will also produce alongside original producer Andrew Macdonald and Peter Rice, the former head of Fox Searchlight Pictures, the division of one-time studio Twentieth Century Fox that originally backed the British-made movie and its sequel.
The original film starred Cillian Murphy “as a man who wakes up from a coma after a bicycle accident to find England now a desolate, post-apocalyptic collapse, thanks to a virus that turned its victims into raging killers. The man then navigates the landscape, meeting a survivor played by Naomie Harris and a maniacal army major, played by Christopher Eccleston.”
Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer) is on board as executive producer, though the actor isn’t set to appear in the film…yet.
Talks of a third installment in the franchise have been coming and going for the last several years now – at one point, it was going to be titled 28 Months Later – but it looks like this one is finally getting off the ground here in 2024 thanks to this casting news. Stay tuned for more updates soon!
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