Audiences were somewhat divided over Ridley Scott’s Prometheus, a dark sci-fi film that serves triple-duty as a gory original monster-movie, a loose prequel to the Alien franchise and high-concept theorizing about the origins of life on Earth. Despite the mixed response to the actual movie, few criticized Prometheus for its willingness to explore issues of science vs. faith, within the larger context of the Alien movie property that Scott helped to create nearly forty years ago.
Scott’s new film, Alien: Covenant now seeks to continue the Prometheus storyline, but with a more direct connection to the original Alien. According to Covenant costar Billy Crudup, those themes of science vs. religion in Prometheus will likewise continue to be a major focus ...
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