Geekery: First Image from Alien: Covenant
Take a peek at Ridley Scott’s newest venture into the Alien franchise!
The cast and crew are filming in Australia right now. They released this photo on the official Alien Facebook yesterday….
The official synopsis:
“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, survivor of the doomed Prometheus expedition.”
Rumors say it’s set 10 years after Prometheus and will have the full alien line up: eggs, face-huggers, chest-bursters, and at least one xenomorph. This is a relief.
Scott attempted to tie the 2012 movie to the older members of the franchise. He succeeded in ways, but the classic Geiger designed monster felt shoehorned into the end of the movie. Hopefully he’ll be taking better queues from the 1979 classic.
Current cast includes Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterson, Amy Seimetz, Demián Bichir, Danny McBride, and Billy Crudup. Noomi Rapace is not reprising her role as Dr. Elizabeth Shaw. The project has an entirely different set of writers than Prometheus – Jack Paglen, John Logan, and Michael Green have varied backgrounds in movies and television. This could be good, this could be bad.
Alien: Covenant is due out August 4, 2017.
Are you willing to give Ridley Scott another shot after Prometheus?
