This gorgeous and deeply unnerving poster for Alien: Covenant was just released by Entertainment Weekly, and it’s got us asking all sorts of questions about the upcoming film….
If you’ve seen the trailer, you know that David the Android is back–and rumor has it that the planet he and his pals land on has all sorts of horrors in store for them. Assuming that this is a sequel of sorts to Prometheus… how does this all fit together with what we know of the mythology so far? What do we actually want the film to be?
- Considering the crew on this ship, and the fact that they seem like settlers, maybe this is a kind of “wagon train to the stars” gone wrong? It would be fascinating if this flipped the script a little on some of the old Alien films, and made this about humans colonizing the Aliens’ world. Maybe that’s the reason they never liked us in the first place….
- Maybe David is in cahoots with the Aliens? It would be kind of awesome if he helped these kids get to another world on the pretexts of ‘I’m your nice incorruptible doctor’ and then proceeded to serve them up to a very scary cohabiter.
- Maybe we could follow the adventures of David the Android’s disembodied head as it gallivants through space?
Will we get another chilling body horror set piece, in the vein of the original Alien’s classic Chestburster, or Prometheus’ terrifying birth sequence?
What would you prefer, readers? With Alien: Covenant arriving in May and Ridley Scott hinting at more Alien films, where are you hoping the Alien universe takes us now?
Visually, the poster reminded me of Rodin’s Gates of Hell (I’d post a pic but my tablet seems to hate me right now). Dark, shadowy, bodies writhing and entwined. I’m not sure if it was intentional but it is striking.
What do I want from Alien: Covenant?
That poster.
What do I want from Alien: Covenant?
It’s too late for that: they’ve already made a second unnecessary prequel to Alien. Is “A time machine” an acceptable answer?
Nice poster. But after Prometheus I can’t get excited for this, mostly due to the xenomorphs, engineers and humans being so closely linked. It turns a big, mysterious universe into a family affair. More small universe nonsense, like Anakin building Threepio. Bleh.
There were a lot of things about Prometheus that didn’t work for me. But possibly the most disappointing thing was the discovery that the “space jockey” they found on the original ship back in Alien was just a gray dude in a funky suit.
“David the Android’s disembodied head as it gallivants through space . . . ” I like the way you think. Sign me up for this one.
What do I want from Alien: Covenant?
For it to not exist. Who do we talk to about that?
While Prometheus was this weird, interesting beast with all its wild DNA injected into it, I would like Alien: Covenant to be more of a pure horror experience. Ever since I saw that shower scene in the teaser trailer, I can´t unthink this version of Psycho in space, with David as a kind of Norman Bates, sitting on this planet with a lost one named Elizabeth Shaw. And the ship the title is refering to should be the creepy, haunted house.
Oh, please give us a great and eerie ship!
Ripley showing up at the end and nuking it from orbit?
I want to see James Franco talk to the Mother equivalent, and then die! ;)