As part of the Alien Day celebration, 20th Century Fox has released “The Crossing”, a new, official prologue to Ridley Scott‘s Alien: Covenant that not only reveals the fates of Elizabeth Shaw and the android David after the events of Prometheus, but also stars Noomi Rapace and Michael Fassbender in their former roles. That’s a pretty big deal considering that this sequence is not expected to be part … Continue reading ‘Alien: Covenant’ Prologue Reveals the Fate of Shaw and David Post-‘Prometheus’!!! Check It Out!!

Oh (alien) baby, some new images from Ridley Scott‘s Alien: Covenant have burst forth online and boy are they teasing some interesting things. We’re now less than a month from the film’s international rollout and opening date in the U.S., so hopefully we can keep from being completely spoiled before then, but fair warning, these images do show some potential spoilers; folks who’d rather go in completely … Continue reading New ‘Alien: Covenant’ Images Include a Nasty Neomorph Chowing Down!!! Check It Out!!

There’s a new poster for Alien: Covenant, and it’s bringing a classical air to (scary) proceedings. The image was released by 20th Century Fox via Twitter, with an appropriately Biblical outlook to the accompanying text (which has already appeared in earlier promos for the movie): “The path to paradise begins in hell.” That tone is matched by the image itself, which at once calls back … Continue reading Space Is Hell in New ‘Alien: Covenant’ Poster!!! Check It Out!!!

Michael Fassbender is doing double duty for Alien: Covenant. The actor is not only returning as the megalomaniacal synthetic David introduced in Prometheus, he’s also playing Walter, a new model of A.I. stripped of David’s pesky human qualities. 20th Century Fox has revealed a new video introducing Walter, the synthetic aboard the Covenant, the terraforming spacecraft at the heart of Ridley Scott‘s Prometheus follow-up. As … Continue reading Creepy ‘Alien: Covenant’ Video Introduces Michael Fassbender’s New Synthetic, Walter!! Check It Out!!

Ridley Scott likes to move fast. Which, for his age and for the kinds of movies he makes, is kind of incredible. At 79 the guy is churning out almost a movie a year, but these aren’t Woody Allen comedies or Clint Eastwood dramas—they’re big, brash blockbusters like Prometheus and Exodus: Gods and Kings and The Martian. He most recently completed the Prometheus follow-up Alien: … Continue reading Ridley Scott Says the Next ‘Alien’ Movie Is Already Written!!!

When Prometheus arrived back in 2012, nobody was expecting to meet the Engineers. Heralded as Ridley Scott‘s return to the Alien franchise he founded almost forty years ago, Prometheus steered clear of Alien‘s most famous iconography in favor of a new story set in the same world. And it wasn’t until the very end of the film that we started to see how that story … Continue reading ‘Alien: Covenant’: The Engineers Are Still a Major Part of the Mythology!!!