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May 19, 2017 · Alien & Covenant Movie Series Timeline Explained. Warning: Major spoilers for Alien: Covenant ahead. Ridley Scott's Alien prequel series is in full swing, with the esoteric Prometheus now followed up with the more expository and horror-tinged Alien: Covenant, and up to four more movies in the pipeline. And these films aren't just telling little ...
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May 11, 2018 · As the extended (and better) ending of Prometheus lays bare, the reason that the Engineers likely turned on their progeny—we humans—is due to our predilection toward violence, as well as our...
May 22, 2017 · Thankfully, Alien: Covenant does provide some answers, for both Prometheus and Alien. As a near-direct sequel to Prometheus and an indirect prequel to Alien, Covenant 's story is filled with information on what exactly happened in Prometheus, the nature of the Engineers and how the xenomorphs came to be.
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Two archeologists, Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace) and Charlie Holloway (Logan Marshall-Green), find a “star map” that they interpret as an invitation from the aliens who created humanity, “Engineers.” Peter Weyland (Guy Pearce), the elderly CEO of Weyland Corporation, funds their expedition to hunt down our galactic ancestors. They set out on the Pr...
Crew members on a colonizing expedition on the ship Covenant (Katherine Waterston, Billy Crudup, Danny McBride and Michael Fassbender as another android among them) stumble upon what appears to be a message from Shaw and follow it to a planet inhabited by unfriendly creatures.
After the release of Prometheus, Ridley Scott said that there would be at least three more prequels to the original Alien, including Covenant. He called them “origin stories” that would answer “basic questions” about the Alien universe. He has reportedly already written the sequel to Covenant.
The original film: A distress signal wakes the crew of the ship Nostromo from stasis. They fly to a planet to investigate only to encounter an alien creature that is able to mate with one of the humans. The resulting alien hybrid attempts to take them out one-by-one. Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) takes on the alien.
After drifting through space in stasis for 57 years, Ripley is saved. She tells her employers at the Weyland-Yutani Corporation that the Nostromo was attacked by an alien. The moon where the Nostromo crew discovered the alien is now a colony, and when Earth loses communication with it, Ripley joins an expedition to investigate. They find the aliens...
Ripley and Newt and the others who escaped from the events of Alienscrash land on a penal colony made up of criminals with double Y chromosomes, a condition that makes them extra violent. Ripley discovers that an alien stowed away on her escape pod, so she must join forces with the prisoners to fight the multiplying aliens.
Two centuries after the death of Ripley, scientists create a clone of her in order to harvest and raise the alien embryo inside of her and breed a new alien species. When crew member Annalee Call (Winona Ryder) discovers what’s going on, she tells Ripley, who has been made stronger because of the alien DNA and has acid blood. Ripley takes on the al...
Sigourney Weaver has expressed interest in making an Alien 5 movie. Both Joss Whedon and James Cameron were at times attached to a possible sequel, but it never came to fruition. Most recently, District 9 director and writer Neill Blomkamp wrote a script for a fifth Alien film that was endorsed by both Cameron and Weaver, but Blomkamp said on Twitt...
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Dec 29, 2016 · Alien: Covenant appears to offer some striking links between Prometheus and the classic Alien franchise. Here's how Covenant bridges the gaps.
May 19, 2017 · By Dan Jackson. Published on May 19, 2017 at 5:41 PM. 20th Century Fox. Warning: This post contains spoilers for the movie Alien: Covenant, and discusses the ending of the movie in detail.
May 19, 2017 · The Alien franchise seems to be split into two big arcs right now. Prometheus, for better or worse, helps set up the origins of Alien’s titular creature, while Alien: Covenant continues...
