11 Wild Theories About 2017’s Biggest Movies

11. Meet Ripley’s Mother – Alien: Covenant

Fans are naturally quite excited for the next Alien movie from Ridley Scott, even if Prometheus was a mixed bag. Fox at least appear confident with his work on Covenant, since they’ve moved up the release date twice.

Details are mostly under wraps for the sequel, which will see the return of Michael Fassbender’s David, and Katherine Waterston will play Daniels, the new stand-in for Ripley. Production photos have found Daniels looking like a dead ringer for Ripley, and if the theories are to be believed there’s a good reason for that.

That because Daniels may actually be Ripley’s mother, a detail leaked right from the script. While Covenant will be a prequel to the events of Alien, it feels too neat if it turns out Ripley’s mum was also a kickass warrior who encountered the creature years before.