20th Century Fox has released the Alien: Covenant prologue video, a four-minute introduction to the crew of the Covenant, a colonization ship on its way to a remote planet to form a new human settlement.
The brit magazine confirms the planet seen in the photo is a detour from their actual destination planet, which they visit as the result of a distress beacon.
“What’s great about this story is the characters are so different,” says star Michael Fassbender. “They’re not just filling out a spaceship, their characters have been thought about. It harks back to those really cool characters in the original ‘Alien,’ where there are great relationships going on outside of the [alien].”
Alien: Covenant stars Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston, Billy Crudup, Danny McBride, Demián Bichir, Carmen Ejogo, Amy Seimetz, Jussie Smollett, Callie Hernandez, Nathaniel Dean, Alexander England, Benjamin Rigby, and James Franco.
Jack Paglen (Transcendence) and Michael Green (Green Lantern) provided the Alien: Covenant screenplay. Alien: Covenant will open in theaters on May 19.
