The other day brought the first look at Katherine Waterston (Inherent Vice, Jobs, The Babysitters) doing her best impersonation of Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) in Ridley Scott’s forthcoming Alien: Covenant.
However, earlier in the day the official Alien Twitter page shot out a series of imagery accompanied by random numbers that are speculated to count down to the film’s first trailer release (Friday? Saturday?). The countdown continued this morning with the above shot of a blood-soaked room that’s reminiscent of the set design in Scott’s Alien. It also carried the numbers “224612072104”, rumored to be “microseconds”. Keep your eyes here for any breaking news, including a trailer drop.
Michael Fassbender is returning as Prometheus‘ android David, 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 is also rumored to be among the crew.
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 – here’s everything we know so far – takes off for Paradise on May 19, 2017.
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— Alien Anthology (@AlienAnthology) December 22, 2016
