New day, new Alien: Covenant footage!
If you’re not excited about Ridley Scott’s Alien: Covenant, headed our way next week, you damn sure should be. Our own Jimmy Champane, in his review posted over the weekend, called the film “an intensely crafted nightmare,” adding that it’s “the shot in the arm that the franchise’s future needed it to be.” Music to my ears, that’s for sure, as I’m a huge fan of the Alien saga.
Today brings with it another new batch of footage, this time from a foreign TV spot that showcases the complete and total destruction of the Engineers’ home planet. Find it below.
On a related note, if you want some potential spoilers about Shaw’s fate, check out a handful of leaked behind the scenes images that just surfaced over on the fan website AvP Galaxy.
Katherine Waterston stars while Michael Fassbender returns 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.
Alien: Covenant takes off for Paradise on May 19, 2017.