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Alien: Covenant
Alien: Covenant is a 2017 science fiction horror film
Alien: Covenant
directed by Ridley Scott, and written by John Logan
and Dante Harper from a story by Michael Green and
Jack Paglen. A joint American and British production,
the film is a sequel to Prometheus (2012), the second
installment in the Alien prequel series and the sixth
installment overall in the Alien film series, as well as
the third directed by Scott. The film stars Michael
Fassbender (who reprises his role as David from
Prometheus in addition to playing a new character) and
Katherine Waterston, with Billy Crudup, Danny McBride
and Demián Bichir in supporting roles, and follows the
crew of a colony ship that lands on an uncharted planet
and makes a terrifying discovery.
Principal photography began on April 4, 2016, at

Milford Sound in Fiordland National Park, New Zealand,
and wrapped on July 19, 2016. Effects houses Odd
Studios and CreatureNFX provided the film's makeup
and animatronic creature effects. Scott reported that
Theatrical release poster
the first cut of the film was two hours and twenty-
three minutes long, and was eventually edited down to Directed by Ridley Scott
the two hours and three minutes of the released Produced by David Giler
version. Walter Hill
Ridley Scott
Alien: Covenant premiered in London on May 4, 2017. It Mark Huffam
was released on May 12 in the United Kingdom, and on Michael
May 19 in the United States.[5] Despite polarizing Schaefer
audiences, the film received generally positive reviews Screenplay by John Logan
from critics, with many praising Fassbender's dual Dante Harper
performance and calling the film a return to form for
Story by Jack Paglen
both director Ridley Scott and the franchise.[6][7] The
Michael Green
film grossed a worldwide total of $240 million against a
production budget of $97 million, but underperformed Based on Characters
at the domestic box office.[8] by Dan O'Bannon
Ronald Shusett
Starring Michael
Fassbender
Contents Katherine
Waterston
Billy Crudup
1 Plot
Danny McBride
2 Cast Demián Bichir
3 Themes Music by Jed Kurzel
4 Production (Alien and
4.1 Development Prometheus

themes composed
4.2 Pre-production
by Jerry Goldsmith
4.3 Casting
and Marc
4.4 Production design Streitenfeld)
4.5 Filming
Cinematography Dariusz Wolski
4.6 Post-production
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4.7 Country Edited by Pietro Scalia

5 Music Production 20th Century
6 Release company Fox[1]
TSG
6.1 Novelization Entertainment[1]
6.2 Home release Scott Free
6.3 Video game Productions[1]
7 Reception Brandywine
Productions[1]
7.1 Box office
Distributed by 20th Century Fox[1]
7.2 Critical response
Release date May 4, 2017
8 Follow-ups
(Leicester Square)
8.1 Alien: Covenant – Origins May 12, 2017
8.2 Alien: Covenant 2 (United Kingdom)
9 See also May 19, 2017
(United States)
10 References
11 External links Running time 122 minutes[2]
Country United States
United
Kingdom[3]
Plot Language English
Budget $97 million[4]
In a prologue, business magnate Peter Weyland speaks
with his newly activated android, who chooses the name Box office $240.7 million[4]
"David" after observing a replica of Michelangelo's
statue of David. Weyland tells David that one day they will search for mankind's creator
together; David agitates Weyland by ominously comparing his own unlimited lifespan to his
creator's limited one.
In 2104, 11 years after the Prometheus expedition, the colonization-ship Covenant is bound for
a remote planet, Origae-6, with a crew of 15, two thousand colonists and 1,140 human embryos
aboard. The ship is monitored by Walter, a newer android model that physically resembles
David. A stellar burst damages the ship, killing 47 colonists. Walter orders the ship's computer
to wake the crew, which includes several married couples, from stasis. The ship's captain, Jake
Branson, is burned alive when his stasis pod malfunctions. While repairing the ship, the crew
picks up a radio transmission from a nearby, habitable planet. Against the objections of Daniels
(Branson's widow), the new captain, Oram, decides to investigate.
As the Covenant remains in orbit, an expedition team descends to the earth-like planet's
surface and tracks the transmission's signal to a crashed alien ship. Crew members Ledward
and Hallett are infected by alien spores. Oram's wife Karine helps the rapidly-sickening
Ledward back to the lander where Maggie, the pilot, quarantines them both inside the med-bay.
A small, pale, alien creature (neomorph) bursts from Ledward's back, killing him, and then kills
Karine. Maggie attempts to kill the creature with a shotgun, but triggers an explosion which
kills her and destroys the lander. The neomorph escapes while a similar creature bursts from
Hallett's mouth.
The neomorphs attack the remaining crew members and kill one. The crew manages to kill a
neomorph before David, who survived the Prometheus mission, scares away the other, and leads
the crew to a temple in a city full of humanoid (Engineer) corpses. David tells them that upon
his and fellow Prometheus survivor Elizabeth Shaw's arrival at the planet, their ship released a
black liquid bio-weapon which annihilated the native population and that Shaw died when the
ship crashed in the ensuing chaos. After the crew members tell David of their mission, they
attempt to contact the Covenant but are prevented by fierce storms. The surviving neomorph
infiltrates the structure and kills crew member Rosenthal. David tries to communicate with the
creature, but is horrified when Oram kills it. Oram questions David who reveals that the aliens
are a result of his experimenting with the black liquid in an attempt to create a new species. He
manipulates Oram into being attacked by an alien parasite (facehugger). An alien creature
(xenomorph) later erupts from Oram's chest, killing him.
As the others search for Oram and Rosenthal, Walter, who has found Shaw's dissected corpse,
confronts David. David explains that he believes humans are a dying species and should not be
allowed to colonize the galaxy. When Walter disagrees, David disables him, and threatens
Daniels. Walter recovers (being a superior model capable of self-repair) and confronts David
while Daniels escapes as they fight. A facehugger attacks security chief Lope, but he is later
rescued by crew member Cole. The now fully grown Xenomorph appears and kills Cole, while
Lope escapes and meets up with Daniels. Pilot Tennessee arrives in another lander to extract
Daniels, Lope, and Walter, who claims David has "expired". After an encounter outside the ship,
they kill the Xenomorph and return to the Covenant.
The next morning, Daniels and Tennessee find out that another Xenomorph burst from Lope's
chest, killing him, and is loose on the Covenant. It matures, and kills crew members Ricks and
his wife Upworth. Tennessee and Daniels lure the creature into the Covenant's terraforming
bay and flush it into space.
The Covenant resumes its trip to Origae-6, and the surviving crew re-enters stasis. As Walter
puts Daniels under, she realizes that he is in fact David, but is unable to escape her stasis pod
before falling asleep. David regurgitates two facehugger embryos and places them in cold
storage alongside the human embryos before entering the cargo bay containing the colonists in
stasis. He then poses as Walter to record a log stating that all crewmembers except Daniels
and Tennessee were killed by the neutrino blast at the beginning of the film and that the ship
is still on course for Origae-6.
Cast
Michael Fassbender as David 8 and Walter One,[9] who
are synthetic androids; David is an earlier-made
android, who was formerly a crew member of the
destroyed Prometheus,[10] and Walter is a newer model
who assists the crew aboard the Covenant.[11]
Katherine Waterston as "Danny" Daniels, the chief of
terraforming for the Covenant mission and the
wife/widow of the ship's captain, Jacob Branson. She's
the third in command after Branson and Oram.[12]
Waterston said she was well aware of the comparisons
that were going to be made between her and Sigourney
Weaver's Ellen Ripley, but that she tried not to think
about it too much while filming for fear of being
intimidated.[13]
Billy Crudup as Christopher "Chris" Oram, the Waterston received positive
reviews for her Ripley-like role as
Covenant's first mate and Karine's husband. Oram is a
Daniels.
self-serious man of faith who believes their role on the
Covenant is an act of destiny, and shares a "contentious"
relationship with Daniels.[14]
Danny McBride as Tennessee Faris, the chief pilot of the Covenant and Maggie's
husband.[15]
Demián Bichir as Sergeant Carl Lope, the head of the security unit aboard the Covenant
and husband of Sergeant Hallett.[16][9]
Carmen Ejogo as Karine Oram, the Covenant's biologist and Chris' wife.[14]
Amy Seimetz as Maggie Faris, the lander's pilot and Tennessee's wife.[17]
Callie Hernandez as Upworth, the Covenant's communication officer and Ricks' wife; she
also has paramedic training.
Jussie Smollett as Ricks, the Covenant's navigator and Upworth's husband.[18]
Nathaniel Dean as Sergeant Hallett, a member of the security unit and Lope's husband.[16]
Tess Haubrich as Sarah Rosenthal, a member of the security unit.[9]
Alexander England as Ankor, a member of the security unit.
Benjamin Rigby as Ledward, a member of the security unit.
Uli Latukefu as Cole, a member of the security unit.
James Franco as Jacob Branson, the first captain of the Covenant and husband of
Daniels.[19]
Guy Pearce reprises his role as Peter Weyland, the trillionaire founder and CEO of Weyland
Corporation (now the Weyland-Yutani Corporation) who died before the destruction of the
Prometheus.[20] Noomi Rapace had played archaeologist Dr. Elizabeth Shaw as a member of the
destroyed Prometheus in the prequel film, and appeared in a short promotional prologue to
Covenant that was set in the period between the two movies,[21] but does not act in the final cut
of the movie itself, though her voice is heard and image seen. Andrew Crawford portrays the
role of a neomorph,[22] while Goran D. Kleut portrays the roles of both neomorph and
xenomorph.[23] Lorelei King portrays the voice of the Covenant's computer "Mother"; she was a
colleague of Helen Horton, the voice of the Nostromo's "Mother" from 1979's Alien.[24]
Themes
In New York magazine, David Edelstein commented on David the android as representing a new
generation of monster villains in the tradition of Frankenstein, stating: "In Star Trek, that
man-machine nexus was…hopeful. Here, there's some doubt about David's ultimate motives,
which puts Alien: Covenant squarely in the tradition of the Terminator and Matrix movies. And,
of course, the novel Frankenstein, which carried the subtitle The Modern Prometheus. No less
than Stephen Hawking—who survives with the aid of machines—has predicted that we have 100
years to live before evolved machines take human imperfection as justification for destroying
humanity".[25]
Kevin Lincoln, writing for Vulture Magazine in an article titled "What Other Blockbuster Villains
Can Learn From David in Alien: Covenant", gave a strong endorsement of the depiction of David
as an arch-villain in the film stating: "… one franchise is showing it’s still possible for a modern
blockbuster to have a great villain. In Alien: Covenant, David—the android played by Michael
Fassbender, first introduced in Prometheus—comes into his own as a fleshed-out, dynamic, and
genuinely striking antagonist, one who isn’t just an equal match for the heroes, but even
becomes the central thread of the series. He’s a huge part of what makes Alien: Covenant
work."[26]
Writing for Vox, Allisa Wilkinson said that "Alien: Covenant is too muddled to pull off its deeply
ambitious Satan allegories". She emphasized the Miltonic demonic aspect of the android David,
stating: "But David is a better Satan than Satan himself… It’s as if in the Alien universe, the
devil has evolved, thanks to humans creating him. David, fatally, has the ability to create—
something Satan never had—and he will use that power only to destroy. He doesn't have any
real need to rebel against his maker, since from the moment he became sentient, he knew he’d
already won. He is indestructible, and determined to make creatures that imitate his drive for
total domination."[27]
Production
Development
In 2012, prior to the release of Prometheus, director Ridley Scott began hinting at the
prospects of a sequel.[28][29][30] Scott said that a sequel would follow Shaw to her next
destination, "because if it is paradise, paradise cannot be what you think it is. Paradise has a
connotation of being extremely sinister and ominous." Prometheus co-writer Damon Lindelof
cast doubt on his own participation, and said, "if [Scott] wants me to be involved in something,
that would be hard to say no to. At the same time, I do feel like the movie might benefit from a
fresh voice or a fresh take or a fresh thought."[31] Scott said that an additional film would be
required to bridge the thirty-year span written as the transpiration gap between the
Prometheus sequel and Alien.[32]
As of August 1, 2012, Fox was pursuing a sequel with Scott, Noomi Rapace and Michael
Fassbender involved, and was talking to new writers in case Lindelof did not return.[33] In
December 2012, Lindelof ultimately chose not to work on the project.[34] Early on, Scott stated
that the film would feature no xenomorphs, "The beast is done. Cooked."[35] However, Scott
later made contradictory statements, confirming the xenomorphs' presence in the film.[36]
The initial screenplay was written by Dante Harper, but an extensive rewrite was performed by
screenwriter John Logan. Logan had previously worked with Scott on Gladiator. For Logan, the
main concept was to adopt a dual plot line for the film which would combine the horror elements
of Alien with the philosophical elements of Prometheus. He said, "With Alien: Covenant, I just
really wanted to write something that had the feel of the original Alien, because seeing that
movie was one of the great events of my youth. It was so overpowering in terms of what it
communicated to me and its implications, that when I started talking to Ridley about what
became Alien: Covenant, I said, 'You know, that was a hell of a scary movie.' I wanted to write a
horror movie because the Grand Guignol elements of Alien are so profound. We tried to
recapture that with Alien: Covenant, while also trying to pay homage to the deeper implications
of Prometheus. In terms of tone, pace, and how we chose to play this particular symphony, we
wanted to create a really frightening movie."[36]
On September 24, Scott disclosed the film's title as Alien: Paradise Lost.[37] In November
2015, Scott revealed the new title to be Alien: Covenant, and filming was set to begin in
February 2016 in Australia.[38] An official logo, synopsis and release date were released on
November 16, 2015.[39] During an interview concerning the development of the character of
David since Prometheus, Scott indicated the dark turn which David would take in Covenant,
saying, "'He hates them. He has no respect for Engineers and no respect for human beings.'"[40]
Pre-production
In late August 2015, Scott confirmed that he had started scouting the locations for the
film.[41] In October 2015, the Australian government attracted the production of the film, and
of Thor: Ragnarok, to Australia by providing $47.25 million in grants.[42][43] Woz Productions
Ltd., a subsidiary of 20th Century Fox, visited Te Anau, New Zealand on March 28, 2016 for a
location scout, for filming in Fiordland.[44]
Casting
In August 2015, it was announced that the film would star Rapace and Fassbender, while Rik
Barnett was in talks to join the cast.[45] That December, Katherine Waterston was cast in the
lead role of Daniels;[46] it was Waterston's second film alongside Fassbender, after 2015's
Steve Jobs. Dariusz Wolski, longtime collaborator with Scott, was confirmed to serve as the
film's cinematographer.[47] In 2016, Ridley Scott stated that Noomi Rapace would not reprise
her role of Elizabeth Shaw. However, in June, it was announced that Rapace would shoot weeks'
worth of scenes (though no new footage of hers appeared in the final film).[48] In February
2016, Danny McBride, Demián Bichir, Jussie Smollett, Amy Seimetz, Carmen Ejogo, Callie
Hernandez, Billy Crudup and Alexander England were reported to have joined the
cast.[15][49][50][51][52] In March 2016, newcomer Benjamin Rigby also joined the cast.[53] In
December 2016, it was announced James Franco had been added to the film, as Captain
Branson, husband to Daniels and captain of the Covenant.[54][55][56] The role of Branson in the
film was limited to a cameo appearance of the deceased captain.
Production design
In an article for Cinemablend from May 2017 titled "Mythbusters' Adam Savage Toured The
Set Of Alien: Covenant, And It's Wonderful", Connor Schwerdfeger included a five-minute
short video of Savage's discussion of several of the props and stage sets used in the
production design for the filming of different scenes from the film.[57] In an article for The
Hollywood Reporter on May 18, 2017 titled "'Alien: Covenant': How the Xenomorph Continues to
Horrify Audiences Decades Later", Patrick Shanley interviewed the art director for the film,
Damien Drew, and creature design supervisor Conor O'Sullivan, regarding the involvement of
the San Diego Zoo and its representative Rick Schwartz as a consultant for the design of the
realistic effects of the creatures and Xenomorphs appearing throughout the film.[58] HBO First
Look presented a 12-minute documentary of the production design and some of the stage sets
used in the production of the film, including interviews with Scott and several leading actors in
the film.[59]
The VFX supervisor Charles Henley summarized the several vendors that were used to support
production of the visual special effects seen in the film when the selection process was
discussed, stating: "Both history and need guided the decisions on which vendors we used.
Ridley had worked with MPC on many previous projects, in particular Prometheus for which I
was MPC’s VFX supervisor as well as The Martian. There had a been a lot of great digital double
and creature work done at MPC on recent projects so there was confidence they should be the
lead facility. Framestore had recently worked with Ridley on space for The Martian, similarly
Animal logic now had the original crew who did the holograms for Prometheus. Also as we were
shooting in Australia there was good reason and incentives to use Australian based companies
and so Luma and Rising Sun came on board."[60]
Filming
Principal photography on the film began on April 4, 2016, at Milford Sound in Fiordland National
Park, New Zealand,[61][62][63][64] and wrapped on July 19, 2016.[65] On November 18, 2016,
additional photography was scheduled to take place at Leavesden Studios in Hertfordshire.[66]
Effects houses Odd Studios and CreatureNFX provided the film's makeup and animatronic
creature effects, respectively,[67][68] while Australian-based effects house Animal Logic
provided the film's digital visual effects.[69] Approximately 30 people from CreatureNFX
worked on the project for almost six months building animatronics.[68] Actors wearing creature
suits with animatronic heads were used to portray the aliens,[68][70] and casting calls for the
aliens specifically asked for people between the age of 8 and 40 who were skinny, very tall or
very short, strong and physically agile, and preferably skilled in fast movement, acrobatics,
dancing, gymnastics, contortion, and "Cirque du Soleil type performers."[71]
Scott reported that the first cut version of Covenant after filming went to two hours and
twenty three minutes, eventually edited down to the two hours and three minutes of the
released version.[72] The eleven deleted scenes were reported to be planned for release on
home media, though no news was given of the release of a possible director's cut of the film.[72]
Post-production
Pietro Scalia, the editor of the film, spoke of the structural difficulty of integrating the two
story lines in the final editing of the film in an interview with the ProVideo Coalition stating:
"We moved some pieces around structurally dealing with when do we leave, what action or story
beats on the planet and when to go back onto the spaceship. There were several longer beats
between Farris and Tennessee trying to establish communication. Going back and forth too
many times tended to make the journey to the Juggernaut and the Engineer’s City belabored
and tedious. We combined certain scenes between Farris and Tennessee, eliminated the walking
and talking through the forest, getting the ground crew up the mountain quicker. Later on,
after the attack in the Med Bay on the lander, we held back going back to Tennessee, for the
part where he says: 'I never heard my wife so scared before', not after her death as scripted
but after the second Neomorph birth as to not interrupt the momentum. The middle part of
the film was more challenging after the reveal of David. Once the Covenant Story merges with
the Prometheus storyline, finding the proper structural order of the scenes proved to be
difficult because of the distinctive dynamics of the two story lines in addition to the
separation of the two locations of the action. In one sense, the action, the tension and
unfolding drama going from one group to the other had to be balanced and spaced properly as
not to lose the connective tissue of the film."[73]
Country
A number of film reviews have published partial lists identifying a country or countries of origin
of the film in spite of the film development and production being documented by multiple
sources as occurring in several countries. The complete list of countries representing the origin
of the film was identified by BFI at the Sight and Sound journal in supplementing the countries
of origin list to four countries, United Kingdom, United States, Australia, and New Zealand, as a
supplement to previous sources which had only identified one of the participating countries.[74]
Previous partial lists in journals indicating a country of origin often listed only one of the four
countries involved in the development and production of the film (see sections above for
Development and Production).[3][75][76]
Music
The musical score for Alien: Covenant was written by Australian musician and composer Jed
Kurzel. Initially, Harry Gregson-Williams was selected as the film's composer,[77] but confirmed
in November 2016 that he was no longer working on the film, stating that "schedules and one's
expectations of scoring a film don't always fit and this one wasn't going to work out."[78] When
the first trailer was released in late 2016, it was at this time that Kurzel was revealed as the
replacement for Gregson-Williams.[79] Themes of Jerry Goldsmith's original score to Alien were
incorporated, as well as Marc Streitenfeld's and Harry Gregson-Williams' score to
Prometheus.[80] A version of "Nature Boy" sung by Norwegian singer and songwriter AURORA
was used in the first trailer, while another song, "Under the Water", was used in an extended
promotional footage featuring the character Daniels portrayed by Katherine Waterston
battling a Xenomorph.[81]
Additional song credits include: "Theme from Alien" composed by Jerry Goldsmith, "Das
Rheingold, Scene 4: Entrance of the Gods into Valhalla" composed by Richard Wagner,[82] "Take
Me Home, Country Roads" by John Denver, "The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo" by
Fred Gilbert, "Ancient Flute", "Life" and "We Were Right" composed by Harry Gregson-
Williams, and "Let Me Down Easy" by Paolo Nutini.[83]
Release
Alien: Covenant premiered on May 4, 2017, at the Odeon Leicester Square in London.[84] The
film was released on May 19 in the United States, in 2D and IMAX 2D.[85][86][5] It was originally
set to be released on August 4, before being moved up by 20th Century Fox.[87][88]
The film was released in Mainland China on June 16, 2017, but is trimmed by 6 minutes, leaving
the film total released length in China at 116 minutes. It is very likely that the move was due to
usual censorship by the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television,
because of the monstrous violence depicted in the movie[89] and the removal of the David-
Walter 'kiss' scene which was deleted due to LGBT censorship sensitivities in China.
Alien: Covenant was released in Japan on September 15, 2017.[90]
Novelization
The release of the film was accompanied by a novelization of the film by Alan Dean Foster, who
also authored the novelization of the original Alien film from the 1970s.[91] A companion volume
of the art and stage design of the film was released at the same time, written by Simon Ward
and titled: The Art and Making of Alien: Covenant.[92]
Home release
Alien: Covenant was released on Blu-ray Disc, DVD and 4K Ultra HD on August 15, 2017. The
home release includes an audio commentary by the director, and 22 minutes of missing scenes
and unused footage from the first cut of the film.[93]
Video game
On April 26, 2017, 20th Century Fox released Alien: Covenant In Utero, a virtual reality
interactive demo teaser for Alien: Covenant for the Oculus Rift and the Samsung Gear VR. The
experience was produced by RSA, FoxNext VR, MPC, Mach1, AMD Radeon and Dell
Alienware.[94][95] The trailer is a first person experience in which the viewer plays the role of a
Neomorph. The experience was executive produced by Scott, and directed by David Karlak.
Reception
Box office
Alien: Covenant grossed $74.3 million in the United States and Canada and $166.5 million in
other countries, for a worldwide total of $240.7 million, against a production budget of $97
million.[4]
In North America, the film was released alongside Everything, Everything and Diary of a Wimpy
Kid: The Long Haul, and was projected to gross around $40 million from 3,760 theaters during
its opening weekend.[96][97] It made $4.3 million from Thursday night previews at about 3,000
theaters, and $15.4 million overall on its first day, which was below the $21.5 million Friday
of Prometheus five years prior.[98] It went on to open to $36.2 million, down 34% from
Prometheus' debut, but still finishing first at the box office, as the second highest debut of
the canon series.[99] In its second weekend, the film grossed $10.5 million, finishing 4th at the
box office and dropping 70.9%.[100][101] The film was pulled from 1,112 theaters in its third
weekend and dropped another 62.3%, finishing 6th at the box office with $4 million.[102]
Fox released the film in a number of international markets a week ahead of its domestic
release. It was released in 34 markets, where it debuted to $40.1 million, opening at number
one in 19 of them. Its overall rank for the weekend was second behind the continued run of
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2.[103] The top openings were in South Korea ($7.2 million), the UK
($6.4 million), France ($4.5 million), Australia ($3.1 million) and Mexico ($2.5 million).[103] In
China, the film was released on June 16 and grossed $30 million, topping the box office.[104]
Critical response
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has

an approval rating of 70% based on 303 reviews, with an
average rating of 6.4/10. The site's critical consensus reads,
"Alien: Covenant delivers another satisfying round of close-
quarters deep-space terror, even if it doesn't take the saga
in any new directions."[105] On Metacritic, which assigns a
normalized rating, the film has a score of 65 out of 100,
based on 52 critics, indicating "generally favorable
reviews".[106] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film
an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale, the same score
earned by its predecessor.[99]
The film was praised for its visual aesthetic and design,
cinematography, production design and the acting, with
Michael Fassbender's dual performance as androids David
and Walter receiving acclaim. However, the plot, including the
mix between monster violence, character motivations and plot
Fassbender's portrayal of two
reveals, drew a more mixed response.[107][108][109][110]
similar androids with different
Writing for The Guardian, Peter Bradshaw gave the film a programming, David and Walter,
was highly praised by reviewers.
positive review, praising the performances of its actors, and
comparing it to other entries in the series, stating that the
film is: "…a greatest-hits compilation of the other Alien
films' freaky moments. The paradox is that though you are intended to recognise these
touches, you won’t really be impressed unless you happen to be seeing them for the first time.
For all this, the film is very capably made, with forceful, potent performances from Waterston
and Fassbender."[111]
Geoffrey McNab writing for The Independent found the film to be adequate in presentation
and production, though not as strong in its writing, stating that Alien: Covenant: "…certainly
delivers what you’d expect from an Aliens film—spectacle, body horror, strong Ripley-like
female protagonists and some astonishing special effects—but there’s also a dispiriting sense
that the film isn’t at all sure of its own identity. The very portentous screenplay, co-written by
John Logan (Coriolanus, Skyfall), throws in references to Shelley and Byron, Wagner and
Michelangelo, and lots of philosophising about human origins and identity. In the meantime, the
crew members pitted against the monstrous creatures are trying their darndest to blast them
to kingdom come, just as they would in any run of the mill sci-fi B movie."[112]
Matt Zoller Seitz of RogerEbert.com highly praised Alien: Covenant, giving it four out of four
stars, and stating that the film's structure, although repeatedly borrowing from the Alien
films, serves a purpose not unlike the James Bond film series or Star Wars, "where part of the
fun lies in seeing what variations the artists can bring while satisfying a rigid structure." He
also emphasized that like previous films of the series, real-world logic should not be applied to
the film, and "[i]nstead you have to judge it by the standards of a fever dream or nightmare, a
Freudian-Jungian narrative where the thing you fear most is what happens to you."[113]
A. O. Scott of The New York Times noted: "Alien: Covenant is an interesting movie … for all its
interplanetary ranging, [it] commits itself above all to the canny management of
expectations."[114] Trace Thurman, from Bloody Disgusting, gave the film a mediocre review,
noting that although watching Alien: Covenant will make viewers appreciate Prometheus more,
"…this is a film that was made as a response to Prometheus critics but tries to appease fans of
that film as well and it doesn’t fully work." He also criticizes the overfamiliarity of the climax
and underwritten characters.[115]
Follow-ups
Alien: Covenant – Origins
A second Covenant novel authored by the same writer of the film's novelization was initially
billed as a book sequel to the film to be released in September 2017, before being revealed as a
direct prequel to Covenant under the title Alien: Covenant – Origins.[116] Titan Books, as the
publisher for this direct prequel, released a plot summary promoting the release of the book on
September 26, 2017, stating, "As the colony ship Covenant prepares for launch, and the final
members of the crew are chosen, a series of violent events reveals a conspiracy to sabotage
the launch. Yet the perpetrators remain hidden behind a veil of secrecy. The threat reaches all
the way up to Hideo Yutani—the head of the newly merged Weyland-Yutani Corporation—when
his daughter is kidnapped. Is the conspiracy the product of corporate espionage, or is it
something even more sinister? While Captain Jacob Branson and his wife Daniels prepare the
ship, Security chief Dan Lopé signs a key member of his team, and together they seek to stop
the technologically advanced saboteurs before anyone else is killed, and the ship itself is
destroyed in orbit."[117] The novel's first edition mistakenly refers to Jacob Branson as Jacob
Brandon throughout the novel.
Alien: Covenant 2
In September 2015, Ridley Scott revealed he was planning two sequels to Prometheus, which
would lead into the first Alien film, adding, "Maybe [there will] even [be] a fourth film before
we get back into the Alien franchise."[118][119] In November 2015, Scott confirmed that Alien:
Covenant would be the first of three additional films in the Alien prequel series, before linking
up with the original Alien[120][121] and stated that the Prometheus sequels would reveal who
created the xenomorph aliens.[122] The screenplay for the third prequel film, called Alien:
Awakening, was written during production of Alien: Covenant and was finished in 2017, with
production scheduled to begin in 2018.[123] In March 2017, Scott said, "If you really want a
franchise, I can keep cranking it for another six. I'm not going to close it down again. No
way."[124] In May, Scott announced that Neill Blomkamp's sequel to James Cameron's film
Aliens had been cancelled. In a later interview, he said he would have participated as a producer
but that 20th Century Fox had decided not to pursue the project.[125][126]
Ridley Scott has confirmed in an interview the return of surviving engineers who were away
from their planet while David had destroyed the indigenous population of their home planet for
the next film sequel.[127]
Michael Reyes, writing for Cinema Blend in July 2017, quoted Scott stating that if Sigourney
Weaver could reprise her role as Ellen Ripley in the prequels, then "We're heading toward the
back end of the first Alien, so using CGI may be feasible. I don't think it'll… but Ripley's going
to be somebody's daughter. Obviously. We're coming in from the back end. The time
constraints, of what's the time between this film, where we leave David going off heading for
that colony, I think you're probably two films out from even considering her".[128]
20th Century Fox is rumored to be reassessing the state of the franchise after the moderate
reception to Covenant, although they have not released an official statement to that effect.
According to reports, there will be only one additional prequel film (Alien: Awakening) before a
soft-reboot is made to the Alien universe, consisting of a new series of films with brand new
and original characters as well as a new setting.[129]
In the audio commentary for Alien: Covenant, Scott confirmed that a sequel to Alien: Covenant,
tentatively referred to as Alien: Covenant 2, is being written by John Logan, with Fassbender,
Waterston and McBride reprising their roles. Scott also confirmed that the film will cap his
prequel series, leading directly into the events of Alien.[130][131]
While promoting the film Blade Runner 2049, Ridley Scott revealed on the Empire podcast that
the upcoming sequel will focus more on androids and A.I.'s as opposed to Xenomorphs. Scott
said "I think the evolution of the Alien himself is nearly over, but what I was trying to do was
transcend and move to another story, which would be taken over by A.I.'s the world that the
A.I. might create as a leader if he finds himself on a new planet. We have actually quite a big
layout for the next one."
See also
List of films featuring extraterrestrials
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