15 Most Important Film Sequels Coming In 2017
6. Alien: Covenant
Legendary director Ridley Scott returned to his magnum opus alien-horror universe a few years ago with Prometheus. Though relatively well reviewed the film as a whole was lacking, consisting of logical gaps and dumb characters that were mocked for months after the films release.
Well, Scott is back with this prequel-sequel, with the suggestion that Alien: Covenant will be the more closely tied prequel to Aliens that people thought Prometheus would be. Picking up with Michael Fassbender's synthetic, David, being discovered on a dark, desolate planet the crew of colony ship Covenant will find out that the planet isn't so desolate after all. Presumably because it's full of Xenomorphs and all their peculiar sexual imagery.
Prometheus was a fine effort, though far from the tightly scripted, gritty brilliance of Alien. Early footage of Covenant has been receiving praise recently, so here's hoping next year gives us the Ridley Scott Alien prequel-sequel-prequel we all know he's capable of.
If not, there's always Alien 5...
UK & USA Release Date: 19 May