The best holiday present of all arrived late last in the form of a red band trailer for Ridley Scott’s Alien: Covenant.
While Prometheus was a spinoff that created new mythology and rules to the franchise Scott created over 35 years ago, a lot of fans were disappointed that it wasn’t a true Alien film. Well, Covenant looks like it picks right up where Alien left off, while also utilizing a lot of the stuff introduced in Prometheus. In fact, I’d even say there’s a lot costume and set design lifted from James Cameron’s Aliens.
The bonkers red band trailer flies out of the gate, making it difficult to see everything, which is why we thought it would be cool to go through and share screencaps from all of it.
Enjoy 80+ high resolution screencaps that I pulled from the full 2 gig HD trailer FOX provided us with…
Michael Fassbender returns as the android David, as well as Walter, while Katherine Waterston (Inherent Vice, Jobs, The Babysitters) heads the new crew with 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 is also confirmed to be among them all.
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.
Alien: Covenant takes off for Paradise on May 19, 2017.
