Nearby in the fields, another neomorph bursts from Hallett's mouth, killing him. Maggie attempts to kill the creature with a shotgun, but inadvertently triggers an explosion that kills her and destroys the lander. A small pale alien creature ( neomorph) bursts from Ledward's back, killing him, and mauls Karine to death. Oram's wife, Karine, helps the rapidly deteriorating Ledward back to the lander, where Maggie quarantines both inside the med-bay. Crewmembers Ledward and Hallett are infected by spores from fungus-like organisms. With pilot Tennessee maintaining Covenant in orbit, his wife, Maggie, flies a lander to the planet's surface, where an expedition team tracks the transmission's signal to a crashed alien ship. Despite the protests of Daniels, Branson's widow, that this new "perfect" planet is too good to be true, the new captain, Christopher Oram, decides they will investigate the new planet. While repairing the ship, the crew picks up a transmission of a human voice from a nearby planet, which appears eminently more habitable than Origae-6. The ship's captain, Jake Branson, is burned alive when his stasis pod malfunctions. When a solar flare damages the ship, Walter reanimates his 14 human crewmates, themselves couples and future colonists.
The ship is monitored by Walter, an advanced android model that physically resembles David. In 2104 AD, 11 years after the Prometheus expedition, the colonization ship Covenant is seven years from reaching planet Origae-6 with 2,000 colonists in stasis and 1,140 human embryos in cold storage. David comments on his own unlimited lifespan as compared to Weyland's, which unsettles Weyland. Weyland states that one day they will search for mankind's creator together. The film received generally positive reviews from critics, but underperformed at the box office its worldwide gross was $240 million against a production budget of approximately $100 million, not including marketing costs.īusiness magnate Peter Weyland speaks with his newly activated android, who chooses the name " David" after observing Michelangelo's eponymous statue. It was released on May 12 in the United Kingdom, and on May 19 in the United States. Scott said the first cut of the film was 2 hours and 23 minutes long, which was eventually edited down to the 2 hours and 3 minutes of the released version.Īlien: Covenant premiered in London on May 4, 2017. Effects houses Odd Studios and CreatureNFX provided the film's makeup and animatronic creature effects.
Principal photography began on April 4, 2016, at Milford Sound in Fiordland National Park, New Zealand, and wrapped on July 19, 2016. In 2012, prior to the release of Prometheus, Ridley Scott discussed the prospects of a sequel and new trilogy, and this film was confirmed that August. It follows the crew of a colony ship that lands on an uncharted planet and makes a terrifying discovery. The film features returning star Michael Fassbender, with Katherine Waterston, Billy Crudup, Danny McBride, and Demián Bichir in supporting roles. A joint American and British production, the film is a sequel to Prometheus (2012), the second entry in the Alien prequel series, and the sixth installment in the Alien franchise overall, three of which have been directed by Scott. Alien: Covenant is a 2017 science fiction action horror film directed and produced by Ridley Scott and written by John Logan and Dante Harper, from a story by Michael Green and Jack Paglen.