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It looks as though we’re get­ting a sec­ond Alien movie this year…

14 Mar 2017

Words by Jack Godwin

At least, that’s the vibe we’re get­ting from the skin-crawl­ing new Life trailer.

So far the trail­ers for Life, the upcom­ing sci-fi thriller from Daniel ​“Child 44” Espinosa, have been unforth­com­ing as far as plot details are con­cerned. We know that a crew aboard a space sta­tion dis­cov­er some­thing dan­ger­ous, and strug­gle to con­tain the cri­sis and thus sur­vive the ordeal. So far, it’s all look­ing rather familiar.

This new red band trail­er con­tin­ues to ramp up the mys­tery while pro­vid­ing some clar­i­ty along the way. Accord­ing to the offi­cial syn­op­sis, ​“A team of sci­en­tists aboard the Inter­na­tion­al Space Sta­tion dis­cov­ers a rapid­ly evolv­ing life form that caused extinc­tion on Mars, and now threat­ens the crew and all life on Earth”.

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So yeah, it looks like we’ll be get­ting anoth­er Alien movie this year to go along with Rid­ley Scott’s Alien: Covenant.

This Jake Gyl­len­haal / Ryan Reynolds vehi­cle def­i­nite­ly appears to have mod­elled its trail­ers on the quick-cut style of the nerve-wrack­ing teasers for Prometheus and its sequel. This only invites fur­ther com­par­i­son between Life and Alien: Covenant, as both films deal with the out­break of con­ta­gious dis­eases and hos­tile alien life­forms on an unsus­pect­ing crew.

Hope­ful­ly, Life will find a way to stand out from the sci-fi crowd. We’ll find out for sure when the film hits cin­e­mas on 24 March.

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