Latest colonization mission in Alien: Covenant
The largest colonization mission takes off in Ridley Scott’s latest sci-fi horror-thriller Alien: Covenant, starring Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston, James Franco, Billy Crudup, Jussie Smollett, Amy Seimetz, Carmen Ejogo, Callie Hernandez and Danny McBride.
Scott returns to the universe he created in
Alien with Alien: Covenant, the second chapter in a prequel trilogy that began with Prometheus and connects directly to Scott’s 1979 seminal work of science fiction. 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), survivor of the doomed Prometheus expedition.
In recent interviews, Scott revealed that in Alien: Covenant, he explored into the origins of the xenomorphs, and that the movie touches on mortality, immortality and the higher power who created humans and the universe. “We did Prometheus — that heaved it off the ground, and Covenant is a follow-through to Prometheus. We now know who created this, and why, and the next one’s a joining up of the storyline,” says Scott.
Both Prometheus and Covenant are inspired by Scott’s personal beliefs about where we came from: “We’re not just a random biological accident, for you and I to be sitting here right now (by accident) would take trillions of correct decisions made randomly by nature, which, of course, is ridiculous. I think there’s some kind of decision being made. I believe in a higher force — if we want to call it God, then it’s God.”
Alien: Covenant opens May 10 in theaters nationwide from 20th Century Fox to be distributed by Warner Bros.