Alien: Covenant

Alien: Covenant is an American feature film of the science fiction and horror genres. It is the eighth film in the Aliens film series, and the eleventh film in the combined Aliens & Predator film franchise. The movie serves as both a sequel to the 2012 film Prometheus, but due to its chronological placement, could also be construed as a prequel to the 1979 film Alien. The film was directed by Ridley Scott with a screenplay written by John Logan and Dante Harper based on a story treatment by Jack Paglen and Michael Green. It was produced by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, Brandywine Productions and Ridley Scott's studio, Scott Free Productions in association with TSG Entertainment. It premiered in the United States on May 19th, 2017.

Fun Facts

 * The tagline to this film is "The path to paradise begins in hell".


 * A "covenant" is an agreement between two different parties, such as a truce between warring tribes. In the context of this film, it is the name of the space vessel that brings the crew to the planet.


 * David breaks the Fourth Wall by playing the theme song to Prometheus on his pipe.


 * Hey, is that James Franco getting all burned up in his hypersleep pod in the beginning of the film? Why yes it is. He is also seen on a video screen. Who the hell let Franco onto the set?!


 * Michael Fassbender is the third actor in the franchise to play more than one character in a single film. The first was Lance Henriksen, who played the android Bishop in Alien³, as well as the human Michael Bishop. The other was Sigourney Weaver who played the clone of Ellen Ripley dubbed Ripley-8 in Alien: Resurrection. She also provided the facial structure of one of the failed Ripley clones in that same film.


 * Tennessee is the first character in the franchise to wear a cowboy hat.


 * Tennessee is the second character in the franchise named after a U.S. Location. In Alien the captain of the ship was named Dallas.


 * In this film, the landing craft is piloted by a female named Faris. In Aliens, the landing craft was piloted by a female named Ferro.

Keywords
Android | Burn victims | Extraterrestrial | Female topless nudity | Impalement | Mother | Planet | Profanity | Space vessel | Xenomorph