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.
