Everything about Ridley Scott’s Alien: Covenant reminds us of his 1979 Alien, which first introduced the Xenomorph. With the full trailer out now, we know that everything we loved about the first film will be thrown at audiences tenfold.
Twentieth Century Fox released a pair of new images, one of which shows the classic halls of the Engineer ship (something we learned about in Prometheus). The other, an absolutely gorgeous shot of Katherine Waterston standing alone in a field. It looks like the setting for the Neomorph attack, but that’s just speculation.
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Katherine Waterston (Inherent Vice, Jobs, The Babysitters), doing her best impersonation of Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), 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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