ALIEN: COVENANT aka PROMETHEUS 2 aka ALIEN 6 Is Now 4 Years Old

Alien Covenant

On this day in horror history, director Ridley Scott’s Alien: Covenant was unleashed in 2017. The film is a sequel to Prometheus and is also the sixth installment in the Alien franchise. And the third Alien film directed by Scott.

John Logan and Dante Harper penned the script from a story by Michael Green and Jack Paglen. Prometheus star Michael Fassbender reutnrs. This time he’s joined by the likes of Katherine Waterston, Billy Crudup, Danny McBride, and Demián Bichir.

Also Read: Fan Combines PROMETHEUS and ALIEN: COVENANT Into a New 2.5-Hour Film Titled PARADISE

Synopsis:
Bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, members (Katherine Waterston, Billy Crudup) of the colony ship Covenant discover what they think to be an uncharted paradise. While there, they meet David (Michael Fassbender), the synthetic survivor of the doomed Prometheus expedition. The mysterious world soon turns dark and dangerous when a hostile alien life-form forces the crew into a deadly fight for survival.

The film sports a 65% approval rating over on Rotten Tomatoes. The Critics Consensus: Alien: Covenant delivers another satisfying round of close-quarters deep-space terror, even if it doesn’t take the saga in any new directions.

Alien: Covenant

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