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!!!