Director Ridley Scott is returning to the Alien universe once again with Alien: Covenant, the upcoming film that takes place close to a decade after the events of Prometheus – Scott’s quasi-prequel to his original 1979 Alien – but before Ellen Ripley and the Nostromo’s own fateful first encounter with the Xenomorph. Covenant aims to further explore the history behind the Engineers/Space Jockey alien race that, as established in Prometheus, was responsible for creating human life on Earth in the first place.
Scott’s new Alien film takes place on a “dark, dangerous world” (believed to be the Engineers’ home planet) that has been largely abandoned, where the human crew of the spaceship Covenant encounter the android David (Michael Fassbender) from Prometheus as well ...
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