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- A sequel to "Prometheus" (and technically another quasi-prequel to the first "Alien" film), "Covenant" takes place in 2104, about 11 years after the events of "Prometheus."
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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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Jun 23, 2022 · Though Sir Ridley has maintained that "Prometheus" is not a direct sequel to "Alien" but rather contains strands of the same "DNA," it does add to the mythology of the franchise in some...
Mar 1, 2017 · Yes, Alien: Covenant is a Direct Follow-Up to Prometheus. Does the crew of the Covenant colony ship know anything about the mission witnessed in Prometheus? Cast member Demián Bichir says no,...
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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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May 17, 2017 · The next installment of the prequel series, Alien: Covenant, serves as both a sequel to the 2012 film Prometheus and a bridge — possibly one of several bridges — between the events of that film and...
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A joint American and British production, it is a sequel to Prometheus (2012), the second entry in the Alien prequel series, and the sixth installment in the series but counting crossovers eighth film in the overall Alien franchise (three of which have been directed by Scott).
May 19, 2017 · Regardless, the film is set before the events of Alien. And Alien: Covenant works as a sequel to Prometheus, but also moves closer to setting up the original Alien.
