Alien: Covenant, coming May 19th

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This weekend, director Ridley Scott gave the upcoming Prometheus sequel a brand-new title when he referred to it as Alien: Covenant, a slight change from the previous title of Alien: Paradise Lost. Now 20th Century Fox has confirmed the film will be subtitled “Covenant” and that it will be released in theaters on October 6, 2017, a date it shares with Warner Bros.’ The Jungle Book: Origins. In addition, the synopsis for the film has been released and reads as follows:

Ridley Scott returns to the universe he created in ALIEN with ALIEN: COVENANT, the second chapter in a prequel trilogy that began with PROMETHEUS — and connects directly to Scott’s 1979 seminal work of science fiction. Bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, the crew of the colony ship Covenant discovers what they think is an uncharted paradise, but is actually a dark, dangerous world — whose sole inhabitant is the “synthetic” David (Michael Fassbender), survivor of the doomed Prometheus expedition.

Production on Alien: Covenant is set to begin in February of 2016 in Australia, with Noomi Rapace and Michael Fassbender set to reprise their roles of scientist Elizabeth Shaw and the android David. Given the film’s synopsis, it remains to be seen how Rapace’s Shaw will factor into the film.
 

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Sounds good but

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2017!!! I can't wait that long!!
 

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This is really sounding more and more like a reboot.

But today’s headline does not come to us courtesy of Mr. Scott. It comes to us courtesy of costume designer Janty Yates, who revealed that Alien: Covenant will be set ten years after the crew of the Prometheus was wiped out and Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace) and David (Michael Fassbender) set out in search of the Engineers’ home planet.


Yates, who has designed the costumes for every Ridley Scott movie since she took home an Academy Award for Gladiator in 2000, recently sat down to speak with Collider. Although the subject of their chat was The Martian (which hits Blu-ray and DVD in less than two weeks), she did spill a few details about that aforementioned time jump in Alien: Covenant, saying that the sequel will be set “…10 years in the future beyond Prometheus.”

Here’s what we can gleam from this: Alien: Covenant, as expected, is starting to sound more and more like a soft reboot that will refocus and reset the Alien universe following the mixed reaction to Prometheus. With that decade-long gap, Scott and his collaborators are essentially free to do whatever they want: reboot, re-arrange, make room for all kinds of aliens to show up, etc. It’s a canny move and a smart way to appease both Prometheus fans and detractors.

This explains why we haven’t heard a thing about Rapace’s Elizabeth – in the time between movies, something must have happened to her. It’s a decision that makes sense. While Rapace has given her fair share of fine performances, nothing about her character resonated with audiences and the role of “tough female heroine who faces the Xenomorph threat” has been handed off to the hugely talented Katherine Waterston. Meanwhile, Fassbender’s mischievous android David, who was a highlight of the previous film, gets to return.
 

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Ugh. Been watching Prometheus lately as it's been on TV a lot and I want some of Rapace's questions answered. I was intrigued to see what the Engineer planet looked like. Was it completely dead, void of life? Was it a booming civilization? It appears that now, we may never know. We may never even hear about the engineers again which sucks. I loved prometheus because it danced around the meaning of life.
 
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