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Watch the nerve-shred­ding new trail­er for Alien: Covenant

01 Mar 2017

Words by Tom Williams

The path to par­adise begins in hell in Rid­ley Scott’s long-await­ed sci-fi prequel.

There’s face-hug­ging action and intense flash­es of Xenomorph car­nage in the nerve-shred­ding, spine-tin­gling new trail­er for direc­tor Rid­ley Scott’s upcom­ing sci-fi Alien: Covenant.

The film is set 10 years after the events of 2012’s Prometheus but before Scott’s 1979 orig­i­nal. It fol­lows a group of cou­ples on-board the colony ship Covenant, which lands on an unchart­ed par­adise plan­et where the crew mys­te­ri­ous­ly dis­cov­ers fields of wheat and the syn­thet­ic who (we pre­sume) plant­ed it – the sole sur­vivor of the doomed Prometheus mission.

From here every­thing goes to hell, as allud­ed to in the film’s eerie tagline: The path to par­adise begins in hell’. Covenant was ini­tial­ly titled Alien: Par­adise Lost’, and it’s now clear that Scott is return­ing to the scene of his ear­li­er pre­quel, with the engi­neer ship fea­tured here seem­ing­ly the same as the one from Prometheus.

This full-length teas­er also gives us a prop­er look at the cast, with Kather­ine Water­ston seem­ing­ly occu­py­ing the Ellen Rip­ley role, Michael Fass­ben­der back as a new mod­el android and Dan­ny McBride as the ship’s Stet­son-wear­ing pilot. Also, look out for a mys­te­ri­ous cloaked fig­ure towards the end of the trailer.

Alien: Covenant is released 12 May in the UK and 19 May in the US.

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