Alien: Covenant Prologue - 12 Things You Probably Missed

James Franco = Jesus.

By Jack Pooley /

Warner Sallman

Alien: Covenant hits cinemas on May 19th, and the marketing push is beginning to ramp up with a near-five-minute prologue scene, entitled The Last Supper, posted online to get fans acquainted with the new ship's cast of characters.

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Though fan response to the prologue has been wildly mixed, it's a clever move to get some of the movie's heavy lifting out of the way character-wise, and if nothing else it certainly musters more intrigue about the direction the Prometheus follow-up will go in.

Hell, the characters already seem more likeable than the ones in Prometheus, so that's a major plus, right? True to form, Ridley Scott has ensured this brief sequence (directed by his son Luke) is jam-packed full of nods, references and Easter eggs for franchise fanatics to salivate over, and there's a good chance you missed at least a few of them.

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