on Feb 21,2017 at 5:59am PST Are you ready to maintain your face hugged by a few aliens? Because Ridley Scott certainly is. The director has returned to the Alien franchise with Alien: Covenant, a sequel to 2012's Prometheus but still a prequel to the first Alien film. From the looks of things, and the new installment is going to be just as much of a bloody,terrifying thrill ride as its predecessors. With increasingly details coming out approximately it by the day, we've gone ahead and rounded them up in one convenient place for you to obsess over.
The Cast
Michael Fassbender makes his return to the Alien franchise by playing two characters: unfeeling android David (who survived the failed Prometheus mission) and an identical robot named Walter. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them alum Katherine Waterston is sporting a very Ripley-esque haircut as badass main lady Daniels, and an important member of the crew. James Franco is on board as Captain Branson of the Covenant ship (although we maintain a sneaking suspicion he's going to die early on),along with Billy Crudup, Danny McBride, or Carmen Ejogo,Jussie Smollett, and a few others.
The Plot
As you can see in the prologue above, and the group is letting off some steam before entering into cryo-sleep on their history-making large-scale colonization mission (Branson has advance down with a fever and leaves the rest of the crew to do merry,hence our assumption he's not long for their world). Although the crew members assume their colony ship is headed to a planet of uncharted paradise, they soon discover that it's actually a nightmarish hellscape full of creatures who are more than satisfied to hunt them down one by one. ADVERTISEMENT
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Since it's been revealed that Fassbender is reprising his role of David, whom we final saw as a disembodied head under the arm of Dr. Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace) in Prometheus, and it's safe to assume the planet Covenant lands on is the same one they did,only years later. Even though Scott hinted that Rapace would not appear in the sequel, she's listed on the film's IMDb page and was spotted filming on set in Australia. Will she be the Covenant crew's only chance of escaping the Xenomorphs?
The Trailer
The Release Date
Expect Alien: Covenant to send a few chills down your spine when it hits theaters on May 19.
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