20th Century Fox isn’t pulling any punches in promoting Alien: Covenant, in theaters May 19th. Now a month out, they’ve begun airing television spots, all of which are proving one point: Covenant won’t be anything like Prometheus, the film’s prequel that took more of a sci-fi angle than horror.
The first trailers already showed us the classic Xenomorph, as well at the newly invented Neomorph, which comes out of the host’s back instead of the chest. They have been giving a lot away, which is a bummer but also necessary if they’re going to get older Alien fans into theater seats. While I obviously haven’t seen the film, I do believe these trailers to have some severe spoilers. Take this one for example, it’s basically a scene from the movie in which a presumed Neomorph goes T-1000 on a victim of the Covenant crew. The spot below carries a new shot of the classic Xeno, which looks like the shot used on the film’s official one sheet, while the third has more footage from the film’s first trailer.
What do you think of the Neomorph?!
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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