20th Century Fox has unveiled the first trailer for directorRidley Scott’sAlien: Covenant, and it is downright terrifying. While the filmmaker originally intended for hisPrometheusfollow-up to focus on the further adventures ofNoomi Rapace’s Elizabeth andMichael Fassbender’s David, he subsequently opted to go a different direction.Covenantfinds Fassbender reprising his role as the android who is now the sole inhabitant of an “uncharted paradise” which is visited by the crew of the colony ship Covenant.
What I really like about theAlien: Covenanttrailer is it doesn’t ruin the movie. Too often Hollywood releases a trailer that spells out the entire film and you can pretty much guess every twist and turn. You know what thisAlien: Covenanttrailer is telling me? A. Get ready to be scared and B. This is not going to be a PG-13 movie. While we only see glimpses of the carnage to come, a few weeks ago I got to see a few scenes from the movie at a 2017 press event at FOX and watched as the new aliens (Neomorphs) tore people to pieces. We’re talking brutal carnage and tons of blood. I loved every second of it. For a more detailed recap of the footage,click here.
Over the summerI spoke to Michael Fassbenderabout the film and he said that Ridley Scott is aiming to really heighten the fright factor:
“This Alien is going to be… I’m very excited to see it and everybody in the film was saying this is a film that we all want to see. It’s much scarier thanPrometheusbut it’s got the same sort of scope ofPrometheus. It’s kind of got more of the sort of thriller, imminent disaster feel thatAlienhad, so it’s kind of a beautiful meeting of both of those films. I’m really excited to see it, I think it’s gonna be super scary number one and then again with the massive scope ofPrometheus… Once it starts and the ball starts rolling, it doesn’t let up. It’s really gonna bring chills to the cinema.”
Based on the footage I’ve seen and this trailer, I really can’t wait to see the finished film. Watch the firstAlien: Covenanttrailer below. The film starsKatherine Waterston,Billy Crudup,Demián Bichir,Carmen Ejogo,Jussie Smollet,Amy Seimetz, andDanny McBride.Alien: Covenantopens in theaters on May 19th, 2017.
For more onAlien: Covenant,here’s our recap of two scenesfrom the movie.
Here’s the official synopsis forAlien: Covenant:
Ridley 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 Fassbender), survivor of the doomed Prometheus expedition.
